[Researchnews] RAISE Seed Funding Opportunity

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The UC Riverside Artificial Intelligence Research and Education Institute
(RAISE at UCR) <https://raise.ucr.edu/> is requesting
proposals for seed grants that will lead to the development of competitive
research proposals to
extramural funding agencies.

Each proposal must include at least 2 PIs, from different areas as
described at https://raise.ucr.edu/. These
areas include: AI Foundations (Machine Learning; Robotics and Embodied AI),
AI Applications (AI in
Computational Sciences, AI in Natural and Agricultural Sciences, AI in
Biology and Medicine, AI in
Humanities, Social Sciences, and Business) and AI in Education.
* At least one of the PIs must beaffiliated with RAISE*.

PIs should submit a 2 page proposal in 11 point Times font that covers the
following.

   - Description of the research theme, its significance, and nature of the
   work that would be conducted.
   - How the funding will help develop new research proposals, and what
   extramural funding agencies and programs the proposals would be submitted
   to, as well as an approximate timeline.
   - Track record of the PIs in receiving extramural funds.
   - Brief description of the PI expertise and any prior collaboration
   experience.

Proposals must be submitted by *Friday, October 3, 2025*, by emailing to
raise at ucr.edu

RAISE will provide support equivalent to 1 graduate student for 2 academic
quarters (approximately
$30K) provided the PIs provide support for 1 academic quarter. The PIs
support must be in the form of
GSR or equivalent, and should not be TA or fellowship support. The funds
provided must be used for
graduate student support only; it cannot be used for materials, supplies,
travel, or PI summer salary. A PI
could request an exception to support a post-doc partially with the funds
instead of a graduate student,
provided they also provide equivalent matching funds similar to the GSR
support.

In the interest of providing support to a larger group of faculty, priority
will be given to those who have
not already received support for post-docs from RAISE.

*Proposals stemming from research supported by this grant must be submitted
through RED*. PIs
should submit a brief report at the end of one year on what research was
accomplished with this support,
the extramural proposals that were submitted, and the status of the
proposals. Seeds grants are renewable
based on the performance of the previous year and availability of funds.
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