Research Innovators are a global community of researchers driving scientific breakthroughs with Google Cloud. Applications are now closed for the 2024 cohort.
Successful applicants to the Research Innovators program get access to Google experts, technical resources, additional Google Cloud credits, speaking opportunities, training, and support from mentors.
2024 Research Innovators
Learn more about the requirements for the Research Innovators program.
You must be a researcher at a government lab, academic institution, or non-profit spending at least 40% of your time in a professional research capacity to be eligible. This includes university faculty, PhD candidates, postdoctoral research, PI/research lead roles in the United States.
Ali Mottaghi, Stanford University
Andi Wang, Arizona State University
Arda Goreci, University of Oxford
Basak Guler, University of California, Riverside
Bryan Wong, University of California, Riverside
Christopher Weber, University of Arizona
Eiko Yoneki, University of Cambridge
Elisa Chen, University of Chicago
Fraol Batole, Iowa State University
Guangming Zhang, UMD, NOA/NESDIS
Hao Liu, Columbia University
Harang Ju, MIT
Ian Gorton, Northeastern University, Seattle Campus
Joel Dokmegang, Northwestern University, NSF- Simons Center for Quantitative Biology
Jose Gabriel Nino Barreat, University of Oxford
Jun Kyung Auh, Georgetown University
Juncheng Yang, Carnegie Mellon University
Le Xu, UT Austin
Leo Anthony G. Celi, MIT
Medhi Saligane, University of Michigan
Mikael Sabuhi, University of Alberta
Mingxun Wang, UC Riverside
Mohammed A. Mostajo-Radji, University of California Santa Cruz
Noga Mudrik, The Johns Hopkins University
Paolo S. Silva, Joslin Diabetes Center
Pascal Notin, University of Oxford
Pengfei Liu, Carnegie Mellon University
Rémy Nicolle, INSERM
Seyed Bagher Hashemi Natanzi, WPI
Simeng Zhu, Henry Ford Cancer Institute Sydney
Swapneel Mehta, New York University
Talmo Pereira, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Thibaud Godon, Universite Laval
Wei Wang, The University of Texas at San Antonio
Yaroslav Balytskyi, University Colorado, Colorado Springs
Yonathan Arbel, University of Alabama
Zhichao Cao, Arizona State University
Abhishek Dubey, Vanderbilt University
Adam Perzynski, CWRU and MetroHealth
Alona Fyshe, University of Alberta
Amiyal Ilany, Bar Ilan University
Anand A Joshi, University of Southern California
Anshul Jindal, Technical University of Munich
April Khademi, Ryerson University
Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology
Benjamin L Deck, Drexel University
Binod Bhattarai, University College London
Bo Zhou, UCLA
Bryan Joseph Neth, Mayo Clinic (Rochester)
Christopher Nguan, University of British Columbia
Edmon Begoli, University of Tennessee
Eduardo Blanco, Arizona State University
Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, University of Colorado Denver
Fei Chiang, McMaster University
Francisco Martin-Martinez, Swansea University
Gianluca Demartini, University of Queensland, Australia
Henry Houskeeper, University of California Los Angeles
Hsing-Yin (Iris) Chang, Stanford/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Hu Li, Mayo Clinic
Huw Richards, University of Waikato
Ignacio Carlucho, University of Edinburgh
Jake Emerson, The Jackson Laboratory
James Brinkhoff, University of New England
Jee Choi, University of Oregon
Jeremy Goecks, Oregon Health & Science University
Jian Zhao, University of Waterloo
Jitendra Jonnagaddala, UNSW Sydney
Jonghyun Lee, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Kyung Hyun Sung, University of California Los Angeles
Li Shen, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Marieke van Buchem, Leiden University Medical Center
Martha White, University of Alberta
Maurice Gregory Tweedie, University of Calgary
Mohammad Shahrad, University of British Columbia
Morteza Zihayat Kermani, Ryerson University
Muhammad Adbul-Mageed, University of British Columbia
Neo Christopher Chung, University of California/University of Warsaw
Paolo Ferragina, University of Pisa
Paul Liu, Stanford University
R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology
Rahul Yedida, North Carolina State University
Richard Fernandes, Government of Canada
Ricky R Savjani, UCLA
Sam Maglio, University of Toronto
Santos Fernandez Noguerol, Technological University Dublin
Shahab Asoodeh, McMaster University
Shih-Kang Chao, University of Missouri-Columbia
Siru Liu, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Stefano Zanero, Politecnico di Milano
Susan Alexander, University of Alabama Huntsville
Thea Sommerschield, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Tian Guo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Vijay Ramdin Singh, University of Illinois at Chicago
Xiaoxiao Li, University of British Columbia
Yang Song, University of New South Wales
Yuhong He, University of Toronto
Zhong Wang, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Ahmed Elnaggar, Technical University of Munich
Amirtanshu Pandey, Carnegie Mellon University
Ana Klimovic, ETH Zurich
Anshul Kundaje, Stanford University
Arianna S. Abundo, Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health
Ariel Rokem, University of Washington
Aswati Vipin, National Neuroscience Institute
Atray Dixit, Coral Genomics, Inc.
Benedikt Riedel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bilal Gonen, University of Cincinnati
Christoph Gorgulla, Harvard University
Dinesh Visva Gunasekeran, National University of Singapore
Elinor R. Schoenfeld, Stony Brook University
Erin Trochim, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Forrest Collman, Allen Institute for Brain Science
Greg Szeto, Allen Institute for Immunology
Hamid Eghbal-zadeh, Johannes Kepler University
Heidi Hendrickson, Lafayette College
Hyeonsu Kang, Carnegie Mellon University
Jim Pfaendtner, University of Washington
Juan Jenny Li, Kean University
Libusha Kelly, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Mandisa Washington, CUNY Brooklyn College
Matteo Chinazzi, Northeastern University
Mohammad Soltanieh-ha, Boston University
Ngiam Kee Yuan, National University Health System
Philip Awadalla, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research
Rose Yu, University of California, San Diego
Sabilah Eboo Alwani, University of Cambridge
Salvador Dura-Bernal, SUNY Downstate
Tapio Schneider, Caltech
Teodora Szasz, University of Chicago
Valentin Danchev, University of Essex
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