{"id":3475,"date":"2017-12-08T11:20:13","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T19:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/?p=3475"},"modified":"2018-01-05T11:21:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T19:21:33","slug":"mozilla-awards-research-grants-to-fund-top-research-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/press\/2017\/12\/mozilla-awards-research-grants-to-fund-top-research-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Awards Research Grants to Fund Top Research Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are happy to announce the results of the Mozilla Research Grant program for the second half of 2017. This was a competitive process, with over 70 applicants. After three rounds of judging, we selected a total of fourteen proposals, ranging from building tools to support open web platform projects like Rust and WebAssembly to designing digital assistants for low- and middle- income families and exploring decentralized web projects in the Orkney Islands. All these projects support Mozilla\u2019s mission to make the Internet safer, more empowering, and more accessible.<\/p>\n

The Mozilla Research Grants program is part of Mozilla\u2019s Emerging Technologies commitment to being a world-class example of inclusive innovation and impact culture-and reflects Mozilla\u2019s commitment to open innovation, continuously exploring new possibilities with and for diverse communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Zhendong Su<\/td>\nUniversity of California, Davis<\/td>\nPractical, Rigorous Testing of the Mozilla Rust and bindgen Compilers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ross Tate<\/td>\nCornell University<\/td>\nInferable Typed WebAssembly<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Laura Watts<\/td>\nIT University of Copenhagen<\/td>\nShaping community-based managed services (\u2018Orkney Cloud Saga\u2019)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Svetlana Yarosh<\/td>\nUniversity of Minnesota<\/td>\nChildren & Parent Using Speech Interfaces for Informational Queries<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Serge Egelman<\/td>\nUC Berkeley \/ International Computer Science Institute<\/td>\nTowards Usable IoT Access Controls in the Home<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alexis Hiniker<\/td>\nUniversity of Washington<\/td>\nUnderstanding Design Opportunities for In-Home Digital Assistants for Low- and Middle-Income Families<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Blase Ur<\/td>\nUniversity of Chicago<\/td>\nImproving Communication About Privacy in Web Browsers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wendy Ju<\/td>\nCornell Tech<\/td>\nVideo Data Corpus of People Reacting to Chatbot Answers to Enable Error Recognition and Repair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Katherine Isbister<\/td>\nUniversity of California Santa Cruz<\/td>\nDesigning for VR Publics: Creating the right interaction infrastructure for pro-social connection, privacy, inclusivity, and co-mingling in social VR<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sanjeev Arora<\/td>\nPrinceton University and the Institute for Advanced Study<\/td>\nCompact representations of meaning of natural language: Toward a rigorous and interpretable study<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rachel Cummings<\/td>\nGeorgia Tech<\/td>\nDifferentially Private Analysis of Growing Datasets<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tongping Liu<\/td>\nUniversity of Texas at San Antonio<\/td>\nGuarder: Defending Heap Vulnerabilities with Flexible Guarantee and Better Performance<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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The Mozilla Foundation will also be providing grants in support of two additional proposals:<\/p>\n

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J. Nathan Matias<\/td>\nCivilServant, incubated by Global Voices<\/td>\nPreventing online harassment with Community A\/B Test Systems<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Donghee Yvette Wohn<\/td>\nNew Jersey Institute of Technology<\/td>\nDealing with Harassment: Moderation Practices of Female and LGBT Live Streamers<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Congratulations to all successfully funded applicants! The 2018H1 round of grant proposals will open in the Spring; more information is available at https:\/\/research.mozilla.org\/research-grants\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Jofish Kaye, Principal Research Scientist, Emerging Technologies, Mozilla<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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