105 Amazon Research Awards recipients announced

Awardees, who represent 51 universities in 15 countries, have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools.

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 105 award recipients who represent 51 universities in 15 countries.

This announcement includes awards funded under six call for proposals during the fall 2023 cycle: AI for Information Security, Automated Reasoning, AWS AI, AWS Cryptography and Privacy, AWS Database Services, and Sustainability. 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 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.

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“Given that data is central to Amazon’s core businesses, I am excited by this opportunity to collaborate with universities on cutting-edge technologies for modern database systems,” said Doug Terry, vice president and distinguished scientist in AWS Database and AI Leadership. “These Amazon Research Awards allow us to support projects that have the potential for substantial advancement in important areas from correctness testing of SQL queries to new data models for generative AI applications.”

ARA funds proposals throughout the 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 tables below list, in alphabetical order by last name, fall 2023 cycle call-for-proposal recipients, sorted by research area.

AI for Information Security

Photo grid shows the recipients of the 2023 fall AI for information security Amazon Research Awards

RecipientUniversityResearch title
Murat KocaogluPurdue UniversityCausal Anomaly Detection from Non-stationary Time-series in the Cloud
Hui LiuMichigan State UniversityHarnessing the Power of Weakly-Supervised Graph Representation Learning for Cybersecurity
Xiaorui LiuNorth Carolina State UniversityHarnessing the Power of Weakly-Supervised Graph Representation Learning for Cybersecurity
Thomas PasquierUniversity of British ColumbiaBuilding Robust Provenance-based Intrusion Detection
Michalis PolychronakisStony Brook UniversitySafeTrans: AI-assisted Transcompilation to Memory-safe Languages

Automated Reasoning

Photo grid shows the recipients of the 2023 fall automated reasoning Amazon Research Awards

RecipientUniversityResearch title
Armin BiereUniversity of FreiburgFrom Mavericks to Teamplayers: Fostering Solver Cooperation in Distributed SAT Solving
Victor BrabermanUniversidad de Buenos AiresAbstractions for Validating Distributed Protocol Reference Implementations
Varun ChandrasekaranUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignAutomating Privacy Compliance
Maria ChristakisTU WienTesting Dafny for Unsoundness and Brittleness Bugs
Werner DietlUniversity of WaterlooOptional Type Systems for Model-Implementation Consistency
Alastair DonaldsonImperial College LondonValidating Compilers for the Dafny Verified Programming Language
Azadeh FarzanUniversity of TorontoBetter Predictability in Dynamic Data Race Detection
Sicun GaoUniversity Of California, San DiegoProof Optimization and Generalization in dReal
Tobias GrosserUniversity Of CambridgeCorrect and High-Performance Domain-Specific Compilation with Lean and MLIR
Andrew HeadUniversity Of PennsylvaniaTYCHE: An IDE for Property-Based Testing
Kihong HeoKorea Advanced Institute Of Science and Technology - KAISTGenerative Translation Validation for JIT Compiler in the V8 JavaScript Engine
Frans KaashoekMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyFlotilla: Compositional Formal Verification of Liveness of Distributed Systems Implementations
Baris KasikciUniversity of Washington - SeattlePrivacy-Conscious Failure Reproduction for Root Cause Diagnosis in Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Laura KovacsTU WienQuAT: Quantifiers with Arithmetic Theories are Friends with Benefits
Shriram KrishnamurthiBrown UniversityParalegal: Scalable Tooling to Find Privacy Bugs in Application Code
Corina PasareanuCarnegie Mellon UniversityProving the Absence of Timing Side Channels in Cryptographic Applications
Jean Pichon-PharabodAarhus UniversityValidating Isolation of Virtual Machines in the Cloud
Benjamin PierceUniversity Of PennsylvaniaTYCHE: An IDE for Property-Based Testing
Ruzica PiskacYale UniversityDemocratizing the Law - Using LLMs and Automated Reasoning for Legal Reasoning
Malte SchwarzkopfBrown UniversityParalegal: Scalable Tooling to Find Privacy Bugs in Application Code
Peter SewellUniversity Of CambridgeThe Foundations of Cloud Virtual-machine Isolation
Scott ShapiroYale UniversityDemocratizing the Law - Using LLMs and Automated Reasoning for Legal Reasoning
Geoffrey SutcliffeUniversity Of MiamiAutomated Theorem Proving Community Infrastructure in the AWS Cloud
Joseph TassarottiNew York UniversityAsynchronous Couplings for Probabilistic Relational Reasoning in Dafny
Sebastian UchitelUniversidad de Buenos AiresAbstractions for Validating Distributed Protocol Reference Implementations
Josef UrbanCzech Technical UniversityLearning Based Synthesis Meets Learning Guided Reasoning
Thomas WiesNew York UniversityAutomating Privacy Compliance
Nickolai ZeldovichMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyFlotilla: Compositional Formal Verification of Liveness of Distributed Systems Implementations

AWS AI

Photo grid shows the recipients of the 2023 fall AWS AI Amazon Research Awards

RecipientUniversityResearch title
Pulkit AgrawalMassachusetts Institute Of TechnologyAdapting Foundation Models without Finetuning
Niranjan BalasubramanianStony Brook UniversityAn API Sandbox for Complex Tasks on Common Applications
Osbert BastaniUniversity Of PennsylvaniaUncertainty Quantification for Trustworthy Language Generation
Matei CiocarlieColumbia UniversityDo You Speak EMG? Generative Pre-training on Electromyographic Signals for Controlling a Rehabilitation Robot after Stroke
Caiwen DingUniversity of ConnecticutGraph of Thought: Boosting Logical Reasoning in Large Language Models
Yufei DingUniversity Of California, San DiegoA Hollistic Compiler and Runtime System for Efficient and Scalable LLM Serving
Xinya DuUniversity Of Texas At DallasProcess-guided Fine-tuning for Answering Complex Questions
Luciana FerrerUniversity of Buenos Aires - CONICETEfficient Adaptation of Generative Language Models through Unsupervised Calibration
Jakob FoersterUniversity Of OxfordCompute-only Scaling of Large Language Models
Nikhil GargCornell UniversityRecommendation systems in high-stakes settings
Georgia GkioxariCalifornia Institute Of TechnologyTowards a 3D Foundation Model: Recognize and Reconstruct Anything
Tom GoldsteinUniversity of MarylandBuilding Safer Diffusion Models
Aditya GroverUniversity of California, Los AngelesPersonalizing Multimodal Generative Models via In-Context Preference Modeling
Albert GuCarnegie Mellon UniversityScaling the Next Generation of Foundation Model Architectures
Mahdi S. HosseiniConcordia UniversityToward Auto-Populating Synoptic Reports in Diagnostic Pathology
Maliheh IzadiDelft University Of TechnologyUnderstanding and Regulating Memorization in Large Language Models for Code
Vijay Janapa ReddiHarvard UniversityBenchmarking the Safety of Generative AI Models with Data-centric AI Challenges
Adel JavanmardUniversity of Southern CaliforniaReliable AI for Generation of Medical Reports from MRI Scans
Jianbo JiaoUniversity Of BirminghamPCo3D: Physically Plausible Controllable 3D Generative Models
Subbarao KambhampatiArizona State UniversityUnderstanding and Leveraging Planning, Reasoning & Self-Critiquing Capabilities of Large Language Models
Kangwook LeeUniversity Of Wisconsin–MadisonInformation and Coding Theory-Based Framework for Prompt Engineering
Ales LeonardisUniversity Of BirminghamPCo3D: Physically Plausible Controllable 3D Generative Models
Anqi LiuJohns Hopkins University(Multi-)Calibrated Active Learning under Subpopulation Shift
Lydia LiuPrinceton UniversityFrom Predictions to Positive Impact: Foundations of Responsible AI in Social Systems
Song MeiUniversity Of California, BerkeleyMathematical Foundations and Physical Principles of Foundation Models and Generative AI
Pablo PiantanidaNational Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)Efficient Adaptation of Generative Language Models through Unsupervised Calibration
Chara PodimataMassachusetts Institute Of TechnologyResponsible AI through User Incentive-Awareness
Bhiksha RajCarnegie Mellon UniversityText and Speech Large Language Models
Christian RupprechtUniversity Of OxfordViewset Diffusion for Probabilistic 3D Reconstruction
Olga RussakovskyPrinceton UniversityDiffusion models: Generative models beyond data generation
Vatsal SharanUniversity Of Southern CaliforniaDebiasing ML-based Decision Making using Multicalibration
Abhinav ShrivastavaUniversity Of MarylandAudio-conditioned Diffusion Models for Generating Lip-synchronized Videos
Rachee SinghCornell UniversityAccelerating collective communication for distributed ML
Vincent SitzmannMassachusetts Institute Of Technology2D and 3D Animation via Image-Conditional Generative Flow Models
Justin SolomonMassachusetts Institute Of TechnologyLightweight Algorithms for Generative AI
Mahdi SoltanolkotabiUniversity of Southern CaliforniaReliable AI for Generation of Medical Reports from MRI Scans
Qian TaoDelft University of TechnologyΦ-Generative Medical Imaging by Physics and AI (PhAI)
Yapeng TianUniversity Of Texas At DallasIntegrating Visual Alignment and Text Interaction for Multi-modal Audio Content Generation
Sherry Tongshuang WuCarnegie Mellon UniversityGenerating Deployable Models from Natural Language Instructions through Adaptive Data Curation
Florian TramerEth ZurichCan Technology Protect us from Generative AI?
Arie van DeursenDelft University Of TechnologyUnderstanding and Regulating Memorization in Large Language Models for Code
Andrea VedaldiUniversity Of OxfordViewset Diffusion for Probabilistic 3D Reconstruction
Carl VondrickColumbia UniversityViper: Visual Inference via Python Execution for Reasoning
Xiaolong WangUniversity of California, San DiegoGenerating Compositional 3D Scenes and Embodied Tasks with Large Language Models
Eric WongUniversity Of PennsylvaniaAdversarial Manipulation of Prompting Interfaces
Saining XieNew York UniversityImage Sculpting: Precise Image Generation and Editing with Interactive Geometry Control
Rex YingYale UniversityDiff-H: Hyperbolic Text-to-Image Diffusion Generative Model
Minlan YuHarvard UniversityTroubleshooting Distributed Training Systems
Zhiru ZhangCornell UniversityA Unified Approach to Tensor Graph Optimization

AWS Cryptography and Privacy

Photo grid shows the recipients of the 2023 fall AWS Cryptography and Privacy Amazon Research Awards

RecipientUniversityResearch title
Christopher BrzuskaAalto UniversitySecure Messaging: Updates Efficiency & Verification
Tevfik BultanUniversity of California, Santa BarbaraDetecting and Quantifying Information Leakages in Crypto Libraries
Muhammed EsginMonash UniversityPractical Post-Quantum Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions Supporting Verifiability
Nadia HeningerUniversity of California, San DiegoBringing Modern Security Guarantees to End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Storage
Tal MalkinColumbia UniversityCryptographic Techniques for Machine Learning
Peihan MiaoBrown UniversityAdvancing Private Set Intersection for Wider Industrial Adoption
Virginia SmithCarnegie Mellon UniversityRethinking Watermark Embedding and Detection for LLMs
Ron SteinfeldMonash UniversityPractical Post-Quantum Oblivious Pseudorandom Functions Supporting Verifiability

AWS Database Services

Photo grid shows the recipients of the fall 2023 AWS Database Services Amazon Research Awards

RecipientUniversityResearch title
Lei CaoUniversity Of ArizonaSEED: Simple, Efficient, and Effective Data Management via Large Language Models
Natacha Crooks

University Of California, Berkeley

Mammoths Are Slow: The Overlooked Transactions of Graph Data
Samuel MaddenMassachusetts Institute Of TechnologySEED: Simple, Efficient, and Effective Data Management via Large Language Models
Manuel RiggerNational University Of SingaporeDemocratizing Database Fuzzing

Kexin Rong

Georgia Institute Of Technology

Dynamic Data Layout Optimization with Worst-case Guarantees

Sustainability

Photo grid shows the recipients of the fall 2023 sustainability Amazon Research Awards

RecipientUniversityResearch title
Kate ArmstrongNew York Botanical GardenVERDEX: remote sensing of plant biodiversity
Praveen BolliniUniversity Of HoustonData-driven design and optimization of selective nanoporous catalysts for biofuel conversion
Brandon BukowskiJohns Hopkins UniversityData-driven design and optimization of selective nanoporous catalysts for biofuel conversion
Alan EdelmanMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyScientific Machine Learning with Application to Probabilistic Climate Forecasting and Sustainability
Kosa Goucher-LambertUniversity of California, BerkeleyLCAssist: An Interactive System for Life-Cycle-Informed Sustainable Design Decision-Making
Vikram IyerUniversity of Washington - SeattleData-Driven Sustainable Polymer Design for Circuits, Packaging, and Actuators
Can LiPurdue UniversityDesign and Analysis of Sustainable Supply Chains Using Optimization and Large Language Models
Damon LittleNew York Botanical GardenVERDEX: remote sensing of plant biodiversity
Aniruddh VashisthUniversity of Washington - SeattleData-Driven Sustainable Polymer Design for Circuits, Packaging, and Actuators
Ming XuTsinghua UniversityAdvancing Sustainable Practices in the AI Era: Integrating Large Language Models for Automated Life Cycle Assessment Modeling

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Even if you do not meet all of the qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud.
US, WA, Seattle
Innovators wanted! Are you an entrepreneur? A builder? A dreamer? This role is part of an Amazon Special Projects team that takes the company’s Think Big leadership principle to the limits. We focus on creating entirely new products and services with a goal of positively impacting the lives of our customers. No industries or subject areas are out of bounds. If you’re interested in innovating at scale to address big challenges in the world, this is the team for you. Here at Amazon, we embrace our differences. We are committed to furthering our culture of inclusion. We have thirteen employee-led affinity groups, reaching 40,000 employees in over 190 chapters globally. We are constantly learning through programs that are local, regional, and global. Amazon’s culture of inclusion is reinforced within our 16 Leadership Principles, which remind team members to seek diverse perspectives, learn and be curious, and earn trust. As a Applied Scientist at the intersection of machine learning and the life sciences, you will participate in developing exciting products for customers. Our team rewards curiosity while maintaining a laser-focus in bringing products to market. Competitive candidates are responsive, flexible, and able to succeed within an open, collaborative, entrepreneurial, startup-like environment. At the forefront of both academic and applied research in this product area, you have the opportunity to work together with a diverse and talented team of scientists, engineers, and product managers and collaborate with others teams.
US, VA, Arlington
Are you passionate about programming languages, applying formal verification, program analysis, constraint-solving, and/or theorem proving to real world problems? Do you want to create products that help customers? If so, then we have an exciting opportunity for you. In this role, you will interact with internal teams and external customers to understand their requirements. You will apply your knowledge to propose innovative solutions, create software prototypes, and productize prototypes into production systems using software development tools and methodologies. In addition, you will support and scale your solutions to meet the ever growing demand of customer use. Technical Responsibilities: - Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security and safety requirements. - Apply the acquired knowledge to build tools find problems, or show the absence of security/safety problems. - Implement these tools through the use of SAT, SMT, and various concepts from programming languages, theorem proving, formal verification and constraint solving. - Perform analysis of the customer systems using tools developed in-house or externally provided - Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies. Leadership Responsibilities: - Can present and defend company-wide technical decisions to the internal technical community and represent the company effectively at technical conferences. - Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions. Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker. - Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues. AWS has the most services and more features within those services, than any other cloud provider–from infrastructure technologies like compute, storage, and databases–to emerging technologies, such as machine learning and artificial intelligence, data lakes and analytics, and Internet of Things. Whether its Identity features such as access management and sign on, cryptography, console, builder & developer tools, and even projects like automating all of our contractual billing systems, AWS Platform is always innovating with the customer in mind. The AWS Platform team sustains over 750 million transactions per second. We have a formal mentor search application that lets you find a mentor that works best for you based on location, job family, job level etc. Your manager can also help you find a mentor or two, because two is better than one. In addition to formal mentors, we work and train together so that we are always learning from one another, and we celebrate and support the career progression of our team members. Key job responsibilities Technical Responsibilities: - Interact with various teams to develop an understanding of their security and safety requirements. - Apply the acquired knowledge to build tools find problems, or show the absence of security/safety problems. - Implement these tools through the use of SAT, SMT, BDDs, and various concepts from programming languages, theorem proving, formal verification and constraint solving. - Perform analysis of the customer systems using tools developed in-house or externally provided - Create software prototypes to verify and validate the devised solutions methodologies; integrate the prototypes into production systems using standard software development tools and methodologies. Leadership Responsibilities: - Can present and defend company-wide technical decisions to the internal technical community and represent the company effectively at technical conferences. - Functional thought leader, sought after for key tech decisions. Can successfully sell ideas to an executive level decision maker. - Mentors and trains the research scientist community on complex technical issues. A day in the life You will be working on cutting edge technology related to formal methods, automated reasoning, automated testing, and adjacent areas. You will work with fellow applied scientists to solve challenging problems that provide value to customers by improving the quality of software. You will have an opportunity to publish your work. Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. AWS Utility Computing (UC) provides product innovations — from foundational services such as Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), to consistently released new product innovations that continue to set AWS’s services and features apart in the industry. As a member of the UC organization, you’ll support the development and management of Compute, Database, Storage, Internet of Things (Iot), Platform, and Productivity Apps services in AWS, including support for customers who require specialized security solutions for their cloud services. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Mentorship and Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. About the team The Automated Reasoning in Identity (ARI) team is growing fast. It works on applying automated reasoning techniques to services within AWS's Identity organization, building on initial successes of the Zelkova and Access Analyzer projects. The reach of AR within Identity is growing, with more scientists joining all the time.