Professors Chengnian Sun and Hongyang Zhang have each been awarded $60,000 USD through the 2025 Google Research Scholar Program. Professor Sun’s project will focus on enhancing compiler optimizations, while Professor Zhang’s project aims to improve the speed and efficiency of reasoning in large language models.
The Google Research Scholar Program supports early-career faculty across the globe who conduct innovative research in fields relevant to Google. The program provides unrestricted funding to help promising academics advance their research. Open to university researchers worldwide, this competitive program selects a limited number of proposals for funding through a rigorous review process.
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