24.07.2024

Sony Research Award Program 2024

Deadline: 15 September 2024

The Sony Research Award Program is an open innovation program, providing sponsored research funding for projects on emerging and innovative technologies in collaboration with Sony Group's own research groups. Currently in its eighth year, the program is open to universities and research institutions such as government research institutes and non-profit organizations in the U.S., Canada, 17 European countries and India.

The Sony Research Award Program is comprised of two awards - the Faculty Innovation Award and the Focused Research Award. The awards create new opportunities for academics to engage in cutting-edge research, leading to the introduction of breakthrough technologies.

The Faculty Innovation Award grants up to $100,000 USD to principal investigators for one year, for research projects that may fall within three broad subject categories (Information Technology, Devices & Materials, and Biomedical & Life Sciences) relevant to Sony's current research interests.

The Focused Research Award provides support for up to $150,000 USD for one year, to conduct research on 12 themes which is more focused in the areas of Sony's immediate interest.
The themes mentioned are:

• Unified Diffusion Modeling for Smart Content Creation
• Long Video Understanding for Highlight Creation Assistance
• Novel Mechanisms and Actuators for Robots
• Physics-based Robotics Simulation
• Multimodal Scene Generation for Content Creation
• Speech Understanding, Processing and Generation on Indian Languages
• Simultaneous Optimization of Process Conditions and Material Specifications for Device Fabrication Using Small Datasets
• Advanced Visual Technology enabled by AI
• AI-based Digital Human Content Creation
• Interactive Experiences with Virtual Agents
• Neural Physics for Engaging Interactive Simulations in Real-Time
• Conversion and Optimization Technology for I/O Information of Various User Interfaces by AI-based Abstraction

To learn more about the program and to submit a proposal, please visit:
https://www.sony.com/research-award-program 

Proposal submission is open from July 15, 2024 to September 15, 2024.