Microsoft Research Fellowship Program Has Been Launched!

Dear Faculty Members,

Microsoft recently announced the launch of the Microsoft Research Fellowship program. Applications will remain open until December 2, 2025.

Among the eligible regions for this program is Türkiye, which can be selected under the “Europe” region in the application portal. For applications submitted from the Europe region, the fellowship provides up to USD 27,000 in support.

Please note that some research programs accept applications only from Ph.D. students, while others accept applications only from faculty members, and some include both groups. You can review the research objectives and specific eligibility criteria for each program via the link provided below. If you have students who may be interested, please feel free to share this information with them.

Research Challenges Supported by the Program:

AI for Global and Societal Impact
- Equitable interactive AI tools for creatives
- Global employment, hiring, and performance outcomes based on AI adoption

- Grounding AI in global majority languages, cultures, and contexts
- Tackling disinformation and misinformation through provenance tools for end
users

AI Fundamentals: Scalable Reasoning, Model Adoption and Evaluation

- Advancing generative AI evaluation through psychometrics and measurement
- Efficient and accurate post-training of retrieval models
- Steering reasoning models with test-time verification

Biological and Scientific Modeling

- Generative models for regulatory genomics

Foundational Systems & Infrastructure for AI

- AI for clean electricity planning and deployment
- Systems, algorithms, and rigorous applications of reinforcement learning post-training

Human-AI Collaboration and Interaction

- AI models and creativity
- AI-powered collaborative dynamic experiences
- Beyond assistance: AI as teammate for collaboration, alignment, and collective intelligence
- Toward socially intelligent AI agents

Multimodal & Embodied Intelligence

- Beyond tokenization: foundational approaches to multimodal LLMs
- General-purpose robotic foundation models for embodied AI
- Robot learning from alternative data sources

The deadline for completing the online application is December 2, 2025.

For any questions or support requests, please contact the Technology Transfer Office (TTO) at grants@ozyegin.edu.tr.

Kind regards,
ÖzÜ TTO