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Programme :	Sony Research Award Program
Organisation :	Sony Group
Deadline :	15/09/2024 - Full-proposal
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Type d'information :	Financement
Type de programme :	Appels à projets de collaboration internationale, Appels à projets de recherche fondamentale/ou de base (hors financement de l’Union Européenne), Transfert technologique et valorisation de la recherche
Description courte :	The Sony Research Award Program provides funding for cutting-edge academic research and helps build a collaborative relationship between faculty and Sony researchers. With awards up to $150,000 USD per year for each accepted proposal, both the Faculty Innovation Award and Focused Research Award create new opportunities for university faculties and research institutions to engage in pioneering research that could drive new technologies, industries and the future.
Description complète :	The research areas are fully described on the web pages of the call: https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/research-award-program/#Overview FACULTY INNOVATION AWARD The Sony Faculty Innovation Award provides up to $100K USD in funds to conduct pioneering research in the areas listed below. Please select the single most relevant keyword to your submission. Information Technology: - Affective computing - Data analytics - Robotics - Audio, music, speech and language processing - Human sensing and interaction - Security - Communication - Machine learning - Simulation and informatics - Computer vision - Planetary sensing - Systems and networking - RF Sensing - Visual/visualization Devices and Materials: - Simulation/Informatics - Display device/optical beam steering - Sustainable Devices and Materials - Metasurface/DOE - Laser/VCSEL - Silicon photonics - Wireless power transfer Biomedical and Life Science: - Biophotonics - Cell biology - Digital health FOCUSED RESEARCH AWARD 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. - 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
Critères d’admission/attribution :	Sony accepts applications from Principal Investigators (PIs) who meet the eligibility criteria below. - PI's institution: PIs must belong to a university, educational institution, or governmental/non-profit research institute. - 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. - Countries: The PI’s institution must be in Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and the United States of America. Sony accepts 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 primary PI and the primary 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. A PI or different PIs from the same university/institution may submit more than one proposal for different research topics. Sony will accept an unlimited number of proposals from the same university for the same research topic as long as they each have different PIs. However, please do not submit identical proposals more than once. Note that at the bottom of your submission confirmation email, there is a link to resubmit your proposal in the event that you discover that your original had an error or an omission. Please use this link for resubmissions and do not resubmit identical proposals. Also, please do not submit "test" submissions. In the rare event that you do not receive a confirmation email for your submission, please complete the Inquiry Form available here informing us of your issue.
Financement :	The Focused Research Award is limited to a maximum of $150K USD per proposal. The Faculty Innovation Award is limited to a maximum of $100K USD per proposal. This funding is a sponsored research grant that is to be used to conduct the research described in the proposal, and includes any overhead related to this research and any and all other fees or charges needed to carry out the research. There is a single payment for the award and it is all-inclusive of all associated expenses and fees. Sony will not specify a maximum amount or percentage of the budget that may be allocated to overhead.
Pour postuler / aide du Département Recherche :	Submissions must be done through the online submission form. Click here to open the submission form Submissions made by email will not be accepted. Submissions must be in the English language or they will not be accepted. Submitters will automatically receive a confirmation email once they complete the online submission form and process. Please keep the confirmation email as proof of each submission. Submissions must be completed by 11:59 pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time; UTC-7) on September 15, 2024 / 8:59 am CEST (Central European Summer Time; UTC+2) September 16, 2024 / 12:29 pm IST (Indian Standard Time; UTC+05:30) September 16, 2024. Required Information for the Online Submission Form The following information will be required in order to complete the online submission form for each proposal submitted. Proposal information; proposal title, proposal file (11 pages maximum including proposal, references, and 1-page budget summary), and either one Focused Research Theme (if for the Focused Research Award) or one primary keyword (if for the Faculty Innovation Award). PI's Information; PI's full name, PI's title, PI's CV file, PI's email address, and PI's department name. Submitter's Information, if not the PI (optional); Submitter's full name and email address
Zone géographique:	Europe - Amérique du Nord
Contact interne ULB :	Patrick Di Stefano
	patrick.di.stefano@ulb.be
Nom du second contact :	Ronnie Raeymaekers
	ronnie.raeymaekers@ulb.be
Contact externe :
	https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/research-award-program/#Overview
Vous souhaitez recevoir de l’information destinée à quel type de profil :	Chercheurs
Discipline(s) scientifique(s) de l’appel :	Biologie/ Bioingénieur, Chimie/ Sciences des matériaux, Médecine, Neurosciences, Physique, Psychologie/ Sciences cognitives, Sciences de l’ingénieur, TIC et Informatique

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