Funding, News and Announcements

Meta is pleased to invite university faculty to respond to several calls for research proposals:

Dynabench Data Collection and Benchmarking Platform

We are encouraging creative submissions along the theme of “rethinking benchmarking” that leverage the Dynabench platform.

A total of 4 to 8 awards are available, in the range of $15,000 to $55,000 each.

For full details, please visit the Dynabench Data Collection and Benchmarking Platform RFP page.

Mephisto Dataset Collection Tool

Mephisto is a tool that Meta AI Research uses to standardize and codify best practices and infrastructure for research data collection and annotation. We are encouraging creative submissions that leverage the Mephisto tool.

A total of 4 awards are available, in the range of $25,000 - $37,500 each.

For full details, please visit the Mephisto Dataset Collection Tool RFP page.

Important dates for the above two calls:

Launch date: February 16.
Deadline: March 23, 2022 at 11:59pm PT.

2022 Silent Data Corruptions at Scale

We are soliciting proposals focusing on mitigation of silent data corruptions within internet applications due to hardware faults affecting the data center computing stack (from hardware to compilers to applications). Proposals could range from hardware and architectural level mitigations and design strategies to test architecture evolution to software resiliency for silent data corruption.

Up to five awards, each in the $50,000 range. For full details, please visit the 2022 Silent Data Corruptions at Scale RFP page.

Important dates for the above call:

Launch date: February 14, 2022.
Deadline: March 21, 2022 at 5:00pm AOE.

Eligibility for all calls:

• Proposals must comply with applicable U.S. and international laws, regulations, and policies;
• Applicants must be current full-time faculty at an accredited academic institution that awards research degrees to PhD students;
• Applicants must be the Principal Investigator on any resulting award;
• Meta cannot consider proposals submitted, prepared or to be carried out by individuals residing in, or affiliated with an academic institution located in, a country or territory subject to comprehensive U.S. trade sanctions; and
• Government officials, political figures, and politically affiliated businesses (all as determined by Meta in its sole discretion) are not eligible.

Interested applicants should submit completed application to ird@dal.ca a minimum of five business days before the deadline.