Yahoo Labs is excited to announce the recipients of the Yahoo Faculty and Research and Engagement Program (FREP). This academic outreach program is designed to produce the highest quality scientific collaborations and outcomes by engaging with faculty and students conducting research in areas of mutual interest. The FREP funds help academics across the globe collaborate with Yahoo research scientists on new, exciting internet research studies and experiments. In addition to the research gift, each recipient has the opportunity to collaborate directly with distinguished Yahoo scientists and visit Yahoo Labs. We were extremely impressed with all of the submissions and would like to thank each professor who applied. Congratulations to the following recipients of the Yahoo 2012 Faculty Research and Engagement Program:

• Arjen P. de Vries, Delft University of Technology
• Amitabha Bagchi and Maya Ramanath, IIT Delhi
• Arpita Ghosh, Cornell University
• Barry Brown, University of Stockholm
• Benjamin Piwowarski, University Pierre et Marie Curie
• Dimitris Achlioptas, University of California - Santa Cruz
• Dmitry Lagun, Emory University
• Joy Ying Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
• Eric Gilbert, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Eugene Agichtein, Emory University
• Fei-Fei Li, Stanford University
• Hongyuan Zha, Georgia Institute of Technology
• Ian Davidson, University of California – Davis
• J. Saketha Nath, IIT – Bombay
• John Turner, University of California – Irvine
• Joydeep Ghosh, University of Texas at Austin
• Kilian Weinberger, Washington University in St. Louis
• Liad Wagman, Illinois Institute of Technology
• Matt Lease, University of Texas at Austin
• Niloy Ganguly, IIT Kharagpur
• Paolo Boldi, University degli Studi di Milano
• Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Santanu Chaudhury, IIT Delhi
• Sargol Sadeghi, RMIT University
• Sebastiano Vigna, University degli Studi di Milano
• Shivani Agarwal, Indian Institute of Science
• Soumen Chakrabarti, IIT Bombay
• Sunita Sarawagi, IIT Bombay

  At Yahoo Labs, we’re committed to forging strong alliances with top faculty by collaborating on cutting edge research to advance Web Science. These collaborations will solve shared problems with measurable outcomes such as joint papers, advances in algorithm design, systems research, digital media studies and marketplace design. FREP supports all areas of Yahoo Labs research. If you have questions about the Faculty Research and Engagement Program please contact Kim Capps.