We are very happy to announce the results of the 2018H1 Mozilla Research Grants. This was an extremely competitive process, with over 115 applicants. We selected a total of eight proposals, ranging from tools to fight online harassment to systems for generating speech. All these projects support Mozilla’s mission to make the Internet safer, more empowering, and more accessible.
The Mozilla Research Grants program is part of Mozilla’s Emerging Technologies commitment to being a world-class example of inclusive innovation and impact culture-and reflects Mozilla’s commitment to open innovation, continuously exploring new possibilities with and for diverse communities. We will open the 2018H2 round in Fall of 2018: see our Research Grant webpage for more details and to sign up to be notified when applications open.
Principal Investigator
Institution
Department
Title
Jeff Huang
Texas A&M University
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Predictively Detecting and Debugging Multi-threaded Use-After-Free Vulnerabilities in Firefox
Eduardo Vicente Gonçalves
Open Knowledge Foundation, Brazil
Data Science for Civic Innovation Programme
A Brazilian bot to read government gazettes and bills: Using NLP to empower citizens and civic movements
Leah Findlater
University of Washington
Human Centered Design and Engineering
Task-Appropriate Synthesized Speech
Laura James
University of Cambridge
Trustworthy Technologies Initiative
Trust and Technology: building shared understanding around trust and distrust
Libby Hemphill
University of Michigan
School of Information and Institute for Social Research
Learning and Automating De-escalation Strategies in Online Discussions
Pamela Wisniewski
University of Central Florida
Department of Computer Science
A Community-based Approach to Co-Managing Privacy and Security for Mozilla’s Web of Things
Munmun De Choudhury
Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Interactive Computing
Combating Professional Harassment Online via Participatory Algorithmic and Data-Driven Research
David Joyner
Georgia Institute of Technology
College of Computing
Virtual Reality for Classrooms-at-a-Distance in Online Education
Many thanks to all our applicants in this very competitive and high-quality round.
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