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Amazon today publicly announced 74 recipients from the Amazon Research Awards Fall 2021 call for proposals. The recipients, who represent 51 universities in 17 countries, have access to more than 300 Amazon public datasets, and can utilize AWS AI/ML services and tools.

75 Amazon Research Awards recipients announced

The awardees represent 52 universities in 17 countries. Recipients have access to more than 300 Amazon public datasets, and can utilize AWS AI/ML services and tools.

By Amazon Research Awards team
July 18, 2022
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The Amazon Research Awards is a program that provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating research topics across a number of disciplines.

Today, we’re publicly announcing 75 award recipients who represent 52 universities in 17 countries. Each award is intended to support the work of one to two graduate students or postdoctoral students for one year, under the supervision of a faculty member.

Top row, left to right: Aws Albarghouthi, Nada Amin, Clark Barrett, Ivan Beschastnikh, William Bowman, Yinzhi Cao, Trevor Carlson, Marsha Chechik; second row, left to right: Cas Cremers, Derek Dreyer, Marcelo Frias, Sicun Gao, Roberto Giacobazzi, Ronghui Gu, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Steve Ko; third row, left to right: James Noble, Rohan Padhye, Pavithra Prabhakar, Francesco Ranzato, Talia Ringer, Camilo Rocha, Andrei Sabelfeld, Ilya Sergey; and bottom row, left to right: Michele Sevegnani, Fu Song, Zhendong Su, Daniel Varro, Yakir Vizel, Thomas Wies, Anton Wijs, and Meng Xu.
Top row, left to right: Aws Albarghouthi, Nada Amin, Clark Barrett, Ivan Beschastnikh, William Bowman, Yinzhi Cao, Trevor Carlson, Marsha Chechik; second row, left to right: Cas Cremers, Derek Dreyer, Marcelo Frias, Sicun Gao, Roberto Giacobazzi, Ronghui Gu, Jean-Baptiste Jeannin, Steve Ko; third row, left to right: James Noble, Rohan Padhye, Pavithra Prabhakar, Francesco Ranzato, Talia Ringer, Camilo Rocha, Andrei Sabelfeld, Ilya Sergey; and bottom row, left to right: Michele Sevegnani, Fu Song, Zhendong Su, Daniel Varro, Yakir Vizel, Thomas Wies, Anton Wijs, and Meng Xu are among the recipients from the Amazon Research Awards Fall 2021 call for proposals under the Automated Reasoning CFP.

This announcement includes awards funded under seven call for proposals during the Fall 2021 cycle: AI for Information Security, Amazon Device Security and Privacy, Amazon Payments, AWS Automated Reasoning, Data for Social Sustainability, Prime Video, and Robotics. Proposals were reviewed for the quality of their scientific content, their creativity, and their potential to impact both the research community and society more generally. Theoretical advances, creative new ideas, and practical applications were all considered.

Top row, left to right: Nora Ayanian, Nicola Bezzo, Luca Carlone, Venanzio Cichella, Jia Deng, Nima Fazeli, Maani Ghaffari-Jadidi; second row, left to right: Grace Gu, Leonidas Guibas, Felix Heide, Ralph Hollis, Robert Katzschmann, Sven Koenig, George Konidaris; third row, left to right: Sergey Levine, Jennifer Lewis, Maja Matarić, Jan Peters, Lerrel Pinto, Robert Platt, Nancy Pollard; and bottom row, left to right: Alessandro Rizzo, Oren Salzman, Roland Siegwart, Pratap Tokekar, James Wang, Shenlong Wang, and Yuke Zhu.
Top row, left to right: Nora Ayanian, Nicola Bezzo, Luca Carlone, Venanzio Cichella, Jia Deng, Nima Fazeli, Maani Ghaffari-Jadidi; second row, left to right: Grace Gu, Leonidas Guibas, Felix Heide, Ralph Hollis, Robert Katzschmann, Sven Koenig, George Konidaris; third row, left to right: Sergey Levine, Jennifer Lewis, Maja Matarić, Jan Peters, Lerrel Pinto, Robert Platt, Nancy Pollard; and bottom row, left to right: Alessandro Rizzo, Oren Salzman, Roland Siegwart, Pratap Tokekar, James Wang, Shenlong Wang, and Yuke Zhu are among the recipients from the Amazon Research Awards Fall 2021 call for proposals under the Robotics CFP.

Recipients have access to more than 300 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.

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.

Top row, left to right:NAMES; second row, left to right:NAMES are among the recipients from the Amazon Research Awards Winter 2022 call for proposals under the Alexa: Fairness in AI CFP.
Top row, left to right:NAMES; second row, left to right:NAMES are among the recipients from the Amazon Research Awards Winter 2022 call for proposals under the Alexa: Fairness in AI CFP.

"Research in automated reasoning is deeply intertwined with a broad range of other research areas, touching machine learning, hardware and software engineering, robotics, and life sciences," said Daniel Kroening, an Automated Reasoning Group senior principal scientist. "The 2021 Amazon Research Awards reflect this breadth, and the interdisciplinary nature of research that is necessary to take computing one step closer to that magic spark that drives human reasoning."

ARA funds proposals up to four times a year in a variety of research areas. Applicants are encouraged to visit the ARA call for proposals page for more information or send an email to be notified of future open calls.

The table below lists, in alphabetical order, Fall 2021 cycle call-for-proposal recipients.

Recipient

University

Research title

Aws Albarghouthi

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Teaching SMT Solvers Probability Theory

Nada Amin

Harvard University

Extensible Models and Proofs

Nora Ayanian

Brown University

Large-Scale Labeled Multi-Agent Pathfinding for Warehouses

Clark Barrett

Stanford University

HydraScale: Solving SMT Queries in the Serverless Cloud

Ivan Beschastnikh

University of British Columbia

Compiling Distributed System Models into Implementations

Nicola Bezzo

University of Virginia

Towards Safe and Agile Robot Navigation in Occluding and Dynamic Environments

William Bowman

University of British Columbia

Static reasoning for memory in compilers and intermediate languages

Yinzhi Cao

Johns Hopkins University

Automatic Static Resource Analysis for Serverless Computing

Luca Carlone

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Real-time Spatial AI for Robotics

Trevor Carlson

National University of Singapore

Accelerating SAT Solving with a Flexible FPGA-Programming Platform

Marsha Chechik

University Of Toronto

Unsatisfiability Proofs for Monotonic Theories

Venanzio Cichella

University Of Iowa

Concurrent allocation and planning for large-scale multi-robot systems

Cas Cremers

CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security

KeyLife: Automated Formal Analysis for Key Lifecycles in Security Protocols with Policies, Delegation, and Compromise

Elizabeth Croft

Monash University

Help me!: Humans supporting robots through Augmented Reality

Jia Deng

Princeton University

Optimization-Inspired Neural Networks for Visual SLAM

Derek Dreyer

MPI - SWS

RefinedRust: Automating the Verification of Rust Programs in the Presence of Unsafe Code

Tudor Dumitras

University of Maryland, College Park

Mitigating the impact of behavior variability and label noise on ML-based malware detectors

Nima Fazeli

University of Michigan

Object Manipulation with High-Resolution Tactile Sensors

Earlence Fernandes

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Verifiable Distributed Computation

Marcelo Frias

Buenos Aires Institute of Technology

Modular Bounded Verification with Expressive Contracts

Sicun Gao

University of California, San Diego

Interior Search Methods in SMT

Maani Ghaffari-Jadidi

University of Michigan

Robust low-cost dead reckoning and localization for home robotics using invariant state estimation

Roberto Giacobazzi

University of Verona

Implicit program analysis

Ronghui Gu

Columbia University

Learning Inductive Invariants for Real Distributed Protocols

Grace Gu

University of California, Berkeley

Deep learning-enabled robust grasping for pneumatic actuators

Leonidas Guibas

Stanford University

GeneralPurpose 3D Perception of Object Functionality

Arie Gurfinkel

University of Waterloo

Formal Proofs for Trusted Execution Environments

Hamed Haddadi

Imperial College London

Auditable Model Privacy using TEEs

Felix Heide

Princeton University

Inverse Neural Rendering

Ralph Hollis

Carnegie Mellon University

Low Cost Dynamic Mobile Robots for Research and Teaching

Hongxin Hu

SUNY, Buffalo

Explaining Learning-based Intrusion Detection Systems for Active Intrusion Responses

Jean-Baptiste Jeannin

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Automatic Verification of Distributed Systems Implementations

Robert Katzschmann

ETH Zurich

Design and Control Optimization of Soft Gripper Mechanisms for Manipulation

Anirudh Sivaraman Kaushalram

New York University

Observing and controlling microservice deployments

Steve Ko

Simon Fraser University

Practical Symbolic Execution for Rust

Sven Koenig

University of Southern California

Hybrid Search- and Traffic-Based MAPF Systems for Fulfillment Centers

George Konidaris

Brown University

Learning Composable Manipulation Skills

Emmanuel Letouzé

Pompeu Fabra University

Leveraging Digital Data for Monitoring Human Rights and Social Dynamics Along and Around Value Chains

Sergey Levine

University of California, Berkeley

Robotic Learning with Reusable Data

Jennifer Lewis

Harvard University

Computational Co-Design of Dexterous Rigid-Soft Grippers With Intrinsic Tactile-Sensing-Based Control

Maja Matarić

University of Southern California

Learning User Preferences for In-Home Robots Through In Situ Augmented Reality

James Noble

Victoria University Of Wellington

“Programming Made Hard” Made Easier: Improving Dafny’s Human Factors

Rohan Padhye

Carnegie Mellon University

Coverage-Guided Property-Based Testing of Concurrent Programs

Jan Peters

TU Darmstadt

Learning Robot Manipulation from Tactile Feedback

Lerrel Pinto

New York University

Visual Imitation in the Wild through Decoupled Representation Learning

Robert Platt

Northeastern University

On-robot manipulation learning via equivariant models

Nancy Pollard

Carnegie Mellon

Contact Areas for Manipulation Capture, Retargeting, and Hand Design

Pavithra Prabhakar

Kansas State University

Conformance Checking of Evolving ML Software Systems

Francesco Ranzato

University of Verona

Implicit program analysis

Sanjay Rao

Purdue University

Answering counterfactuals from offline data for video streaming

Bruno Ribeiro

Purdue University

Answering counterfactuals from offline data for video streaming

Talia Ringer

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Neurosymbolic Proof Synthesis & Repair

Alessandro Rizzo

Politecnico di Torino

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Trustworthy Control of Autonomous Robots

Camilo Rocha

Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali

Probabilistic and Symbolic Tools for P Program Verification

Andrei Sabelfeld

Chalmers University of Technology

DeepCrawl: Automated Reasoning for Deep Web Crawling

Oren Salzman

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Increasing throughput in automated warehouses via environment manipulation

Ilya Sergey

National University of Singapore

Scaling Automated Verification of Distributed Protocols with Specification Transformation and Synthesis

Michele Sevegnani

University of Glasgow

From Whiteboards to Models: Diagrammatic Formal Modelling for Everyone

Roland Siegwart

ETH Zurich

Autonomous Navigation of Aerial Robotic Manipulators in Unstructured Indoor and Outdoor Environments

Ramesh Sitaraman

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Design and Evaluation of ABR Algorithms for High-Performance Video Delivery

Fu Song

ShanghaiTech University

Efficient and Precise Verification for Constant-Time and Time-Balancing of Cryptosystems

Zhendong Su

ETH Zurich

Practical Techniques for Reliable, Robust and Performant SMT Solvers

Jiliang Tang

Michigan State University

Taming Graph Anomaly Detection via Graph Neural Networks

Pratap Tokekar

University of Maryland, College Park

Multi-Robot Coordination through the Lens of Risk

Daniel Varro

McGill University

Graph Solver as a Service

Yakir Vizel

Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

Quantified Invariants

David Wagner

University of California, Berkeley

Machine Learning for Malware Detection: Robustness against Concept Drift

James Wang

Pennsylvania State University

Affective and Social Interaction between Human and Intelligent Machine in Daily Activities

Shenlong Wang

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Safely Test Autonomous Vehicles with Augmented Reality

Thomas Wies

New York University

A Modular Library of Verified Concurrent Search Structure Algorithms

Anton Wijs

Eindhoven University of Technology

Many-Core Acceleration of State Space Construction and Analysis

Xinyu Xing

Northwestern University

Battling Noisy-label Classification

Meng Xu

University Of Waterloo

Finding Specification Blind Spots with Fuzz Testing

Yuke Zhu

University of Texas at Austin

Interactive Learning Framework for Building Structured Object Models from Play

Andrew Zisserman

University of Oxford

Audio-Visual Synchronisation for General Videos
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We are looking for an Applied Scientist to join the Robotics Simulation team at Amazon Robotics. In this role you will design, build, and validate the simulation environments and policy training pipelines that enable robots to learn manipulation and mobility skills in simulation and transfer them to real hardware. You will work at the intersection of robotics simulation science and modern Physical AI: building GPU-accelerated RL environments, implementing imitation learning workflows, characterizing sim-to-real gaps, tuning physics parameters against real-world data, and evaluating learned policies both in simulation and on physical robots. You will collaborate closely with SDEs who build platform infrastructure, Technical Artists who create simulation assets, and partner science teams who consume your environments and pipelines for their model development. This is a hands-on, execution-focused role. You will own specific simulation science deliverables end-to-end, from environment design through policy evaluation, with increasing scope and independence over time. You will contribute to technical design discussions, propose improvements to the team's simulation fidelity and training methodology, and help establish best practices for robot learning in simulation. Key job responsibilities * Design and implement GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning and imitation learning environments in NVIDIA Isaac Lab for manipulation and mobility tasks. * Build and maintain policy training pipelines supporting diverse model architectures (diffusion policies, VLAs, behavior cloning, actor-critic RL) and evaluate trained policies in simulation. * Characterize and reduce sim-to-real gaps through systematic validation: compare simulated sensor outputs, kinematics, and dynamics against real-world robot data, then implement targeted improvements. * Implement domain randomization strategies (visual, physics, geometric) to improve policy robustness and transfer to real hardware. * Develop sim-to-real transfer techniques including system identification, physics parameter calibration, and visual domain adaptation. * Create robot embodiment validation tests (joint kinematics, actuator response, contact behavior) to ensure digital twins are faithful to real hardware. * Build data pipelines for recording, replaying, and augmenting demonstration data (from teleoperation or automated trajectory generation) to scale training data volume. * Contribute to end-effector modeling and contact dynamics tuning, ensuring physically plausible gripper and tool interactions in simulation. * Author design documents for new simulation science capabilities and contribute to technical reviews. * Collaborate with partner science teams to understand their model architectures and ensure simulation environments meet their training requirements. A day in the life Amazon offers a full range of benefits that support you and eligible family members, including domestic partners and their children. Benefits can vary by location, the number of regularly scheduled hours you work, length of employment, and job status such as seasonal or temporary employment. The benefits that generally apply to regular, full-time employees include: 1. Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage 2. Maternity and Parental Leave Options 3. Paid Time Off (PTO) 4. 401(k) Plan If you are not sure that every qualification on the list above describes you exactly, we'd still love to hear from you! At Amazon, we value people with unique backgrounds, experiences, and skillsets. If you’re passionate about this role and want to make an impact on a global scale, please apply! About the team The Robotics Simulation team is a multidisciplinary organization of SDEs, Applied Scientists, and Technical Artists at Amazon Robotics. We build the simulation infrastructure that powers Physical AI development, from photorealistic synthetic data to GPU-accelerated training environments. Our simulation stack enables robots to be designed, trained, and validated entirely in simulation before physical hardware exists, compressing development timelines and de-risking robotics programs across Amazon. The team delivers end-to-end simulation stacks for Amazon's robotics programs, including high-fidelity robot digital twins, teleoperation data collection infrastructure, scalable synthetic demonstration generation, policy training and inference pipelines (RL, imitation learning, VLAs), domain randomization for sim-to-real transfer, and model validation in simulation. We partner closely with hardware teams, science organizations, and robotics program leads across Amazon Robotics.
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LU, Luxembourg
Have you ever ordered a product on Amazon and when that box with the smile arrived you wondered how it got to you so fast? Have you wondered where it came from and how much it cost Amazon to deliver it to you? We are looking for a Research Scientist who will be responsible to develop cutting-edge scientific solutions to optimize our fulfillment strategy across multiple regions of the world (EU, JP, IN and more), to maximize our Customer Experience and minimize our cost and carbon footprint. You will partner with the worldwide scientific community to help design the optimal fulfillment strategy for Amazon. You will also collaborate with technical teams to develop optimization tools for network flow planning and execution systems. Finally, you will also work with business and operational stakeholders to influence their strategy and gather inputs to solve problems. To be successful in the role, you will need deep analytical skills and a strong scientific background. The role also requires excellent communication skills, and an ability to influence across business functions at different levels. You will work in a fast-paced environment that requires you to be detail-oriented and comfortable in working with technical, business and technical teams.
Data Scientist
US, CA, San Francisco
If you are interested in this position, please apply on Twitch's Career site https://www.twitch.tv/jobs/en/ About Us: Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X, and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog. Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process. About the Role Join the Monetization team at Twitch, where we build the products that help creators make a living on the platform. You'll work on products like Subscriptions, Bits, and Gifting, and the pricing and packaging decisions behind them. You'll partner closely with product, engineering, finance, and data teams to measure the impact of new features, design and analyze experiments, and apply causal inference methods to inform decisions where A/B testing isn't possible. The work ranges from high-velocity experimentation on consumer-facing products to deeper pricing, policy, and segmentation analyses where causal identification is the central challenge. This role is well-suited for someone with a strong economics or causal ML foundation who wants to apply rigorous statistical thinking to real product decisions at scale. You'll need to be comfortable writing SQL, working with imperfect data, and partnering with stakeholders to turn analysis into product impact. Our team is based at Twitch HQ in San Francisco, CA. You can work in San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; or Seattle, WA You Will - Apply causal inference methods where experimentation isn't feasible - Develop models and analyses that inform pricing, segmentation, and revenue optimization - Design, run, and analyze A/B experiments - Partner with product, engineering, and finance to translate ambiguous business questions into measurement frameworks - Build and maintain dashboards, reporting, and analytical tooling that support ongoing decision-making Perks - Medical, Dental, Vision & Disability Insurance - 401(k) - Maternity & Parental Leave - Flexible PTO - Amazon Employee Discount
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