At Google, we are committed to develop new technologies to help our users find and use information. While we do significant in-house research and engineering, we also maintain strong ties with academic institutions worldwide pursuing innovative research in core areas relevant to our mission. As part of that vision, the Google Visiting Faculty Program aims to identify and support world-class, full-time faculty pursuing research in areas of mutual interest.
Each year, through the Google Visiting Faculty Program, over 25 academics visit Google from universities all over the world. They work closely with our research and engineering teams, and have the opportunity to explore projects at industrial scale, work with state-of-the-art technology, and experience Google culture up close. Google provides a great combination of interesting research problems, a wealth of data, world-class computing infrastructure, and the chance to deploy research in a forum that will be used by millions of people and make a real difference in the world. Both the professors and the Google researchers benefit as new and exciting ideas are discussed and shared. It is often the case that faculty return to their universities with new research directions and educational ideas.
But don't just take it from us – hear from the professors themselves in our Visiting Faculty Interview Series:
All visiting faculty requests will be reviewed by our research group and especially promising candidates will be selected for further consideration. Requests are reviewed on an on-going basis.
If you'd like to find out more about some the research done in the past by Google's technical staff, you can find a list of papers and books on a fairly wide range of topics.