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Funding Opportunity Available for Empire AI Projects You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. New York State’s Empire AI consortium is accelerating the state’s leadership in AI-powered research.
As part of its ongoing support for the effort, the Simons Foundation has announced a new funding opportunity that will provide $6 million in total funding for ambitious two-year research programs. Launched in 2024, Empire AI is a consortium of public and private research institutions based in New York State working together to advance the development of AI and AI-supported technology that can serve the public good.
The Simons Foundation is a significant contributor to the consortium, providing $75 million to support the participation of the City University of New York and the foundation’s in-house computational research division, the Flatiron Institute .
This new request for applications (RFA), called “ Utilizing the Full Power of Empire AI ,” seeks to support cutting-edge mathematics and basic science research that draws on the advanced computational power of Empire AI.
A successful proposal will outline an ambitious two-year research program in or across the following fields: computational astrophysics and physics; computational biology; mathematics; neuroscience; and computational physical chemistry. Each proposal will necessarily rely on the development and use of foundational machine learning models to solve problems of fundamental importance in the above-listed disciplines.
All proposals should detail how their work will use Empire AI’s multinode GPU clusters.
The RFA is open to any researcher holding a tenure-track or tenured faculty position at any of Empire AI’s member institutions (the City University of New York, Cornell University, Columbia University, the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Rochester Institute of Technology, the State University of New York and the University of Rochester).
Employees of the Flatiron Institute can participate as unfunded collaborators. Additional PIs on a proposal can be employed by institutions outside the Empire AI consortium through a subcontract.
Subcontract institutions may be from U.S. and non-U.S. nonprofit organizations; public and private institutions, such as colleges, universities, hospitals, laboratories, institutes, and units of state and local government; and eligible agencies of the federal government. There are no citizenship requirements. The deadline for submitting applications is December 1, 2026, at noon Eastern time.
Further details on the funding opportunity and the application process can be found on the RFA page . Science, Society & Culture October 01, 2026 Apply Now: New Grants to Support HBCU Faculty and Research Excellence Lars Bildsten Joins Simons Foundation Board of Trustees Neuroscience September 22, 2026 Funding Awarded for 16 Courses and Conferences in Autism and Neuroscience
According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Tenure-track or tenured faculty at Empire AI member institutions in New York State. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
Applications for Funding Opportunity Available for Empire AI Projects are due December 1, 2026. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
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Simons Centers of Excellence at Historically Black Colleges and Universities is sponsored by Simons Foundation. Funded by Simons Foundation International and administered by the Simons Foundation, this program supports up to two ambitious research and training Centers of Excellence (CoEs) at HBCU institutions. It prioritizes cutting-edge computational, data-driven, and theoretical research in areas including mathematics, neuroscience, physics, and ecology/evolutionary biology, while building sustainable pathways for students into graduate STEM programs.
Utilizing the Full Power of Empire AI 2027 is a 6,000,000 US dollar Simons Foundation request for applications funding two-year research programmes that build and use foundational machine learning models on the multinode GPU clusters of New York State's Empire AI infrastructure. The Foundation expects to select six to twelve proposals, which implies a working per-award range of roughly 500,000 to 1,000,000 US dollars; the amounts recorded here are derived from that pool and award count rather than from a published per-award cap, because the RFA explicitly states there is no maximum budget total for an individual award. Applicants should therefore size budgets to the science rather than to a ceiling. The scientific scope is deliberately restricted to computational problems of fundamental importance in astrophysics, biology, mathematics, neuroscience and physical chemistry, and proposals must genuinely require multinode GPU capacity, so work that would run on a single node is a poor fit. Eligibility is the binding constraint: the principal investigator must hold a tenure-track or tenured faculty position at one of nine named Empire AI consortium institutions, namely Columbia, Cornell, CUNY, SUNY, RPI, NYU, the University of Rochester, RIT or the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Additional principal investigators may join from non-consortium institutions through subcontract. All applicants and collaborators must hold a PhD, MD or equivalent, there are no citizenship requirements, Simons Foundation and Flatiron Institute W-2 employees are excluded, and the Foundation does not fund institutions in China or Hong Kong. The award period runs 1 June 2027 to 31 May 2029 and applications close at 12 p.m. Eastern on 1 December 2026.
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