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Solid research is the underlying driving force to crystallize fearless creativity and innovation. While we are committed to run in-house research and engineering, we are also excited to collaborate with academic partners to facilitate exploration of new and promising research. The Sony Focused Research Award provides an opportunity for university faculty, research institutes, and Sony to conduct this type of collaborative, focused research. The award provides up to $150K USD* in funds, and may be renewed for subsequent year(s). A list of candidate research topics appears below. Please select the Focused Research Theme for which your submission is written.
Candidate Research Topics
- 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
Important Reminders:
- Proposal submission is open from July 15, 2024 to September 15, 2024.
- Focused Research Award provides up to $150K USD in funds to conduct research in the areas of Sony's immediate interest.
- For proposal application questions, please contact Swapneeta Date, Vanderbilt Assistant Director of Life Sciences at swapneeta.date@vanderbilt.edu.
- Please note: Faculty and researchers interested in applying for these opportunities based on technologies developed or disclosed at Vanderbilt must submit their proposals through the CTTC.
Eligibility
- PI's institution: PIs must belong to a university, educational institution, or governmental/non-profit research institute. (E.g. we accept submissions from research institutes that are categorized as governmental and NPO/NGO in nature index tables.)
PI's position: PIs must be a full-time professor (adjunct professors and adjunct researchers are not eligible) or researcher and be eligible to supervise Ph.D. students at the PI's institution. Full professors, associate professors, and assistant professors are eligible to apply. For the UK, this includes Senior Lecturers, Principal Lecturers, Lecturers, and Readers who are eligible to supervise Ph.D. students at their institutions. - Co-PI(s): We accept applications that have a PI and one or more co-PIs for the same proposal as long as all co-PIs are from the same institution as the PI. However, only one award is made to the PI and the PI's university/institution if the proposal is selected. All co-PIs must meet the same eligibility criteria as that for a PI, and co-PIs will be required to sign program documents.