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Research Innovators by Google Cloud is a global community of researchers driving scientific breakthroughs. Applications are now closed for the 2023 cohort. Learn more.
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Program overview

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. Learn more about our expanded programs and solutions available to researchers in our recent blog.
Expand your network and exposure
Meet potential collaborators, receive 1:1 technical support, get invitations to speak at technical conferences, receive letters of support, and have your work highlighted and amplified.
Access professional development
Take part in special training days at events like Google I/O, NEXT, and Cloud Summits, attend monthly office hours, and receive additional Google Cloud academic research credits.
Get exclusive access
Gain early access to new product features, attend Google Cloud events and summits, receive support from Google developers, get program swag, and earn an expert badge.

2023 Research Innovators
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 Zheng
UMD, NOAA/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
Mehdi 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

More Information

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, pr PI/research lead roles in approved countries.

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

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

Disclaimer for government officials: Google is pleased to provide educational institutions whose members participate in the Research Innovators program with attendance at related events and things of value at no cost where appropriate under applicable laws. Google may be required to report things of value provided to government officials, seek approval from your institution, or invoice you to avoid making an impermissible gift. Please contact us-gov-ethics@google.com if you have any questions, or if you’d like to reimburse Google for anything provided.

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