2017.March.17:
Our proposal “Grounding Task Behavior in the Social World: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Social Dialogue to Improve Task Performance” has been awarded the Google Faculty Research Awards (announcement on the Google Research Blog)
The Google Faculty Research Awards Program aims to recognize and support world-class, permanent faculty pursuing cutting-edge research in areas of mutual interest. The award is highly competitive – only 15% of applicants receive funding – and each proposal goes through a rigorous Google-wide review process. According to Google, they received 876 proposals covering 44 countries and over 300 universities, and they decided to fund 143 projects.