Call for proposals: Amazon Research Awards Fall 2026
We’re pleased to share a research funding opportunity that may be of interest to you or your colleagues. Amazon is currently accepting proposals for its Amazon Research Awards (ARA).
Call Details:
Awards may include unrestricted funds, AWS Promotional Credits, or both. Award amounts and conditions vary by program area. Applicants should review the applicable program-area page for complete funding details.
Proposal Submission Due Date:
November 4, 2026, at 11:59 p.m. PT. Decision letters will be sent out in February 2027.
Program Areas:
- Agentic AI – Advancing the frontiers of AI agents.
- AI for Information Security – Advancing possible solutions for some of the most challenging problems in information security.
- Amazon Security – Solving the hardest problems in security with AI.
- Automated Reasoning – Systems assurance by mathematical proof.
- AWS Cryptography – Setting the standard for cryptography at Amazon.
- Build on Trainium: Agentic Recursive Improvement of Kernels & Frameworks – Building the future of AI with AWS Trainium.
- Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation – Evaluating AI across the world’s languages.
- On-Device Multimodal Perception – Reimagining on-device vision.
- Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception – Pursuing the future of perception data.
Eligibility and Application Requirements: Before applying, we recommend you review the ARA Program Rules, the FAQ, and the Amazon Research Awards Website.
For assistance or additional information, contact the UCF RCI team at ResearchIT@ucf.edu.