2021 CCF-Baidu Open Fund Launched

2021-04-29

The wave of artificial intelligence is sweeping the world, and the development of AI in China is at a sustained high speed. "CCF Baidu Open Fund", which jointly established by Baidu and China Computer Federation (shorted as "CCF") , open for application for 2021 projects.


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CCF- Baidu Open Fund, sponsored by Baidu and CCF, is the only young scholar research fund for young scholar in China based on Baidu Paddle, which is the first deep learning platform for independent research and development, open source and complete function. 


In order to promote the application of deep learning platform in the field of R&D in China, CCF- Baidu Open Fund, supports young scholars under 40 years old with funds and resources of total value of tens of millions, by one-year open and semi-open projects, focusing on two categories: scientific research and application. The support, including millions of project funds, as well as multi-dimensional services such as platform, data and technology, promotes the cooperation in the exploration and practice of cutting-edge technology.


Since the first CCF-Baidu Fund issued in July 2020, more than 200 proposals received from all over the world, and after screened,23 projects selected to make public, including top universities and research institutes at home and abroad, such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Zurich Federal Institute of technology, etc.; and research fields covering basic theory of machine learning, AI development framework, AI compiler, edge AI, distributed machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, recommendation technology, medical AI and etc.