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63 Amazon Research Award recipients announced

Awardees, who represent 41 universities in 8 countries, have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools.

By Amazon Research Awards team
November 25, 2025
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Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating various research topics in multiple disciplines. This cycle, ARA received many excellent research proposals from across the world and today is publicly announcing 63 award recipients who represent 41 universities in 8 countries.

This announcement includes awards funded under five call for proposals during the spring 2025 cycle: AI for Information Security, Amazon Ads, AWS AI: Agentic AI, Build on Trainium and Think Big. Proposals were reviewed for the quality of their scientific content and their potential to impact both the research community and society. Additionally, Amazon encourages the publication of research results, presentations of research at Amazon offices worldwide, and the release of related code under open-source licenses.

Recipients have access to more than 700 Amazon public datasets and can utilize AWS AI/ML services and tools through their AWS Promotional Credits. Recipients also are assigned an Amazon research contact who offers consultation and advice, along with opportunities to participate in Amazon events and training sessions.

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"Amazon Research Awards are enabling incredibly impactful work to improve human health—from revolutionizing and democratizing structural biology tools, which can accelerate discovery of candidate molecules for new drugs to help patients, to predicting the etiology of a stroke in order to start the appropriate therapies, or interpreting digital phenotyping data to help with mental health services," said Christine Silvers, AWS Principal Healthcare Advisor. "These are just three examples of projects that recipients have received Amazon Research Awards for. The potential for improving healthcare amongst all of the spring 2025 plus past and future awardees is staggering and inspiring.“

"Academic AI researchers face a fundamental challenge: advancing machine learning research and educating the next generation requires access to cutting-edge infrastructure that's both powerful and affordable," said Yida Wang, AWS AI Principal Applied Scientist. "The Build on Trainium program directly addresses this barrier. We are working with leading AI research universities such as, UC Berkeley, Stanford, CMU, MIT, UIUC, UCLA, and many others.  At CMU, researchers achieved significant improvements over state-of-the-art FlashAttention in just one week. At MIT, researchers trained 3D medical imaging models with 50% higher throughput and lower cost, reducing training time from months to weeks. Build on Trainium represents AWS's commitment to democratizing AI research through collaborative partnership with academia—fostering an environment where researchers experiment freely, students learn on production-scale infrastructure, and academic innovations shape the future of machine learning for everyone."

The tables below list, in alphabetical order by last name, the spring 2025 cycle call-for-proposal recipients, sorted by research area.

AI for Information Security

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University

Research title

Christopher Fletcher

University Of California, Berkeley

Design and Verification of High-Assurance Key Management Services for Stateful Confidential Computing

Zhou Li

University Of California, Irvine

Precise and Analyst-friendly Attack Provenance on Audit Logs with LLM

Yu Meng

University of Virginia

Weakly-Supervised RLHF: Modeling Ambiguity and Uncertainty in Human Preferences

Jelena Mirkovic

University of Southern California

Safe and Secure API Discovery for Agentic AI

Aanjhan Ranganathan

Northeastern University

Understanding How LLMs Hack: Interpretable Vulnerability Detection and Remediation

Sanjit Seshia

University Of California, Berkeley

Design and Verification of High-Assurance Key Management Services for Stateful Confidential Computing

Alexey Tregubov

University of Southern California

Safe and Secure API Discovery for Agentic AI

Ziming Zhao

Northeastern University

Understanding How LLMs Hack: Interpretable Vulnerability Detection and Remediation

Amazon Ads

ARA Spring 2025 recipients

Recipient

University

Research title

Xiaojing Liao

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign

Adversarial Misuse of Large Language Models in Digital Advertising: Benchmarking and Mitigation

Tianhao Wang

University of Virginia

Adversarial Misuse of Large Language Models in Digital Advertising: Benchmarking and Mitigation

AWS Agentic AI

ARA Spring 2025 recipients

Recipient

University

Research title

Faez Ahmed

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

AutoDA-Sim: A Multi-Agent Framework for Safe, Aesthetic, and Aerodynamic Vehicle Design

Fabio Anza

University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Physics Co-Pilot: An LLM-Orchestrated Scientific Assistant for Physics Research

Andrea Bajcsy

Carnegie Mellon University

Fine Grained Planning Evaluation for VLM Web Agents

Niranjan Balasubramanian

Stony Brook University

Efficient and Effective Long-Horizon Reasoning for Interactive LLM Agents

Andreea Bobu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Contextual Harm Mitigation and Automated Backtracking in Computer Use Agents

Joseph Campbell

Purdue University, West Lafayette

Open-World Probabilistic Theory of Mind

Cong Chen

Dartmouth College

Empowering Power Systems and Market Operations with Behavioral Generative Agents

Chunyang Chen

Technical University of Munich

Functional Bug-Aware Software Testing via Intelligent Computer Use Agents

Shay Cohen

University of Edinburgh

Diffusion-inspired chain-of-thought self-revision

Fernando De la Torre

Carnegie Mellon University

Fine Grained Planning Evaluation for VLM Web Agents

Sidong Feng

Monash University

Functional Bug-Aware Software Testing via Intelligent Computer Use Agents

James Fogarty

University of Washington, Seattle

Leveraging Multiple Representations in Multi-Agent Mobile App Interface Understanding and Task Execution

Surbhi Goel

University of Pennsylvania

Efficient and Safe Protocols for Collaborative Agentic AI

Nika Haghtalab

University of California, Berkeley

Multi-Agent AI Alignment

Irwin King

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

WebAGI: VLM-Driven Framework for Robust Web Automation and Planning in Agentic AI

Emma Lejeune

Boston University

Formidable yet Solvable: Scientific Computing Tasks for Agentic AI

Bang Liu

University of Montreal

Foundation Agents and Protocol for Collaborative Agentic AI

Harsha Madhyastha

University of Southern California

Improving the Efficiency of Web Agents

Michael Macy

Cornell University

Artificial Collective Intelligence: The Structure and Dynamics of LLM Communities

Radu Marculescu

University of Texas at Austin

Collaborative Continual Learning in Multimodal Multi-Agent Systems

Lianhui Qin

University of California, San Diego

ReaL-Agent: A Retrieval-and-Reasoning Agent for Deep, Cross-Modality Retrieval

Mahnam Saeednia

Delft University of Technology

Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Collaboration For Built-in Resilience

Maarten Sap

Carnegie Mellon University

OpenAgentSafety: Measuring and Mitigating Safety Harms of LLM-based AI Agent Interactions

Vitaly Shmatikov

Cornell University

Contextual Security for Multi-Agent Systems

Haim Sompolinsky

Harvard University

Lifelong learning in agentic AI through gated memory modules

John Torous

Harvard University

Interpreting Digital Phenotyping Data with LLM-Based Agentic Assistants for Mental Health Services

Jindong Wang

College of William & Mary

Structure Matters: Task-Optimized Topologies for LLM Agents

Xiaolong Wang

University of California, San Diego

Agentic World Representation

Zhi-Li Zhang

University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

NetGenius: Agentic AI for Next-Generation Wireless Network Autonomous Configurations and Intelligent Operations

Jiawei Zhou

Stony Brook University

Efficient and effective long-horizon reasoning for interactive LLM agents

Build on Trainium

ARA Spring 2025 recipients

Recipient

University

Research title

Saikat Dutta

Cornell University

VERA: Automated Testing for Improving the Reliability of Neuron Compiler Toolchain

Kuan Fang

Cornell University

Fast Adaptation of Multi-Modal Foundation Models for Robotic Perception and Control

Shizhong Han

Lieber Institute for Brain Development

Optimizing and scaling pretraining and preference-based fine-tuning of Large Chemical Models

Sitao Huang

University of California, Irvine

Automatic Kernel Synthesis and Tuning for AWS Trainium via Profile-Guided Graph Topology Optimization

Wataru Kameyama

Waseda University

Accelerating Vision-Language Autonomous Driving with AWS Trainium

Dong Li

University of California, Merced

Efficient Sparse Training with Adaptive Expert Parallelism on AWS Trainium

Xiaoxiao Li

University of British Columbia

Efficient MoE LLMs via Pruning and Matryoshka Quantization on AWS Trainium

Jiang Liu

Waseda University

Accelerating Vision-Language Autonomous Driving with AWS Trainium

Xiaoyi Lu

University of California, Merced

Accelerating Large Language and Reasoning Model Workloads with AWS Trainium

Satoshi Masuda

Tokyo City University

LLM for Software Modeling Brain in Multi Language

Andrew McCallum

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Overcoming Fundamental Reasoning Limitations of LLMs by Always Thinking before Writing

Xupeng Miao

Purdue University, West Lafayette

Towards Communication-Efficient Distributed Training of Large Foundation Models by Dataflow-aware Optimizations

Michael Nagle

Lieber Institute for Brain Development

Optimizing and scaling pretraining and preference-based fine-tuning of Large Chemical Models

Jean-Christophe Nebel

Kingston University London

Efficient Architectures for Genomic Variant Interpretation: Language Models for Non-Coding DNA Variant Analysis

Farzana Rahman

Kingston University London

Efficient Architectures for Genomic Variant Interpretation: Language Models for Non-Coding DNA Variant Analysis

Rohan Sachdeva

University of California, Berkeley

Learning Host–Microbial Genetic Element Interactions with Genomic Language Models

Yanning Shen

University of California, Irvine

Automatic Kernel Synthesis and Tuning for AWS Trainium via Profile-Guided Graph Topology Optimization

Yun Song

University of California, Berkeley

Learning Host–Microbial Genetic Element Interactions with Genomic Language Models

Hoa Vo

Indiana University Bloomington

AI-Powered Travel Pattern Detection in VR for Occupant Behavior Analysis Using AWS Trainium

Minjia Zhang

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Trainium-native MoE: Developing kernel and system optimizations for efficient and scalable MoE training

Think Big

ARA Spring 2025 recipients

Recipient

University

Research title

Tianlong Chen

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Leveraging Molecular Dynamics to Empower Protein AI Models

William H. Lee

Yale School of Medicine

AI-powered prediction of ischemic stroke etiologies using multi-modal data

Piotr Sliz

Harvard Medical School

SBCloud – A Transformative Model for Scalable Structural Biology Research
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