Amazon Research Awards – Fall 2026

Overview

The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) Fall 2026 call invites research proposals in areas relevant to Amazon, including applied machine learning, automated reasoning, computer vision, fairness in artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms and theory, natural language processing, robotics, security and sustainability.

The specific research areas for Fall 2026 are Agentic AI, AI for Information Security, Amazon Security, Automated Reasoning, AWS Cryptography, Build on Trainium (agentic, recursive improvement of kernels and frameworks), Multilingual and Contextual AI Evaluation, On-Device Multimodal Perception, and Synthetic Data Generation for Multimodal Perception.

What you get

Grant recipients receive unrestricted funds and AWS promotional credits. Each funded project is assigned an Amazon research contact, and recipients also receive training resources, including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers.

Who can apply

Researchers from around the world are encouraged to apply, provided their institution holds official accreditation or legal status in its country. Academic applicants must be full-time faculty members at an accredited academic institution. NGO researchers must be permanent researchers at a non-governmental organisation with recognised legal status in its home country, equivalent to 501(c)(3) status in the United States.

How to apply

Proposals are submitted online through the Amazon Research Awards application process.

Key dates

The proposal deadline is November 4, 2026.