Opportunities from Amazon

Amazon Research Awards (ARA) is announcing the Fall 2024 call for proposals (CFP) for the AI for Information Security, Automated Reasoning, AWS AI, AWS Cryptography, and Sustainability research areas. The deadline for submissions is 11:59 p.m. PT on November 6, 2024. ARA provides grant recipients unrestricted funds and AWS promotional credits. Funded projects are assigned an Amazon research contact, and recipients also receive training resources, including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers.

Amazon is inviting applications from university student teams for the Amazon Trusted AI Challenge, a global university competition to drive secure innovation in generative AI technology. This year’s challenge focuses on responsible AI and specifically on large language model (LLM) coding security.

Access to technology that accelerates innovation
• Build cloud-hosted publicly available science-as-a-service applications, software, or tools to facilitate their future research and the research of their community
• Perform proof of concept or benchmark tests evaluating the efficacy of moving research workloads or open data sets to the cloud
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