Faculty Fellowship

How to submit a proposal

If you were nominated by your university or a Microsoft nominator, then you should have received an email from Microsoft Research Faculty Fellowship on March 1, 2021, which includes a private link to submit your proposal. Please check your junk email folder if you do not see it in your inbox.

If you are a nominee, the below outlines the information necessary to submit your proposal in our submission portal.

You will be asked to answer the below questions in a form:

• Name, email, job title, country, university, and department
• Primary and secondary areas of research (click on the Our research tab at the top of the page for a full list)
• Month and year you received your terminal degree (e.g. PhD, DSc)
• Month and year you started your career as a professor
• URL to your professional website (optional, but strongly recommended; you are encouraged to make certain it is up-to-date)
• List up to 5 of the top awards received for best paper or long-term impact paper, if applicable (include award name like “best paper”, authors, titles, conferences, and years)
• List up to 5 of the top awards received for teaching or mentoring, if applicable
• List up to 5 other top awards received not already listed above, if applicable
• List up to 5 top ranks held in a professional society, if applicable (e.g. “Senior member ACM”)
• List up to 5 research grants received, if applicable (include titles of the projects, years received, amounts, and other principle investigators)
• Attestation that you received your terminal degree (e.g. PhD, DSc) in May 2016 or later (having taken into account approved delays)
• Attestation that you are a full-time faculty at a degree-granting college or university, conducting research, advising graduate students, and teaching in a classroom
• Attestation as to whether or not you are a faculty who is underrepresented in the field of computing which include those who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and/or person with a disability – if more than one faculty is nominated, then the other one or two should help us increase the opportunities for faculty who are underrepresented in the field of computing
• Self-assessment of the Statement of Good Standing: “I declare I have never been disciplined for inappropriate behavior, including, but not limited to discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), or plagiarism. If I am selected to receive funding under Microsoft’s Fellowship program, during my funding time period, I agree to inform Microsoft should I be subjected to disciplinary proceedings for inappropriate behavior, including but not limited to discrimination, harassment (including sexual harassment), or plagiarism which would result in forfeiture of funding under Microsoft’s Fellowship program.”

You will be asked to upload 2 documents:

Your curriculum vitae and two-page statement of research will be uploaded separately. Accepted formats are docx, doc, and pdf. Email or hard-copy submissions will not be considered. Name the individual files using the convention indicated below. Include your first name and last name as part of your file name each separated by an underscore (e.g. Jane_Smith_cv.docx).

• Curriculum vitae – file name: cv
• Two-page statement of research to include: your major research initiatives, what makes your approaches especially innovative, and how you would use the funding and the impact it would have on your research; a paragraph describing how you support the mission of fostering diversity and inclusive cultures within your student and researcher communities and how you plan to in the future; we suggest a font no smaller than 10-point and references should be included as part of the two pages – file name: research

You will be asked to request 3 letters of recommendation via the submission portal:

• Add the contact information (name, affiliation, email) and send the email request through the submission portal to your three recommenders as soon as possible so they have ample time to provide a letter. Their deadline is the same as your proposal deadline on Monday, March 29, 2021. They should be established researchers familiar with your research. Once you send the request through the submission portal, they will receive a private link to upload a letter of recommendation for you. Please note that you and your recommenders may need to check your junk folders in order to find emails from our portal. As reference, here is a list of the various system email addresses (opens in new tab) you can add to allowed emails.

Proposals submitted to Microsoft will not be returned. Microsoft cannot assume responsibility for the confidentiality of information in submitted proposals. Therefore, proposals should not contain information that is confidential, restricted, or sensitive. Microsoft reserves the right to make public the information on those proposals that receive awards, except those portions containing budgetary or personally identifiable information.

Incomplete proposals will not be considered.

Due to the volume of submissions, Microsoft cannot provide individual feedback on proposals.