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- Community submitted · Farm Robotics Challenge / UC ANR / AI Institute for Next Generation Food Systems17 days left
Competition · Farm Robotics Challenge 2027
Student agricultural robotics competition solving real farming problems with AI, robotics, sensing and software. Award: 2027 prizes pending; >$100,000 awarded in 2026.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · U.S. Department of Energy / Krell Institute72 days left
Fellowship/position · DOE Computational Science Graduate Fellowship — 2027-2028
Four-year fellowship for early-stage PhD students using HPC to solve complex science and engineering problems. Award: $45,000 annual stipend plus full tuition and fees; renewable up to 4 years.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student
- Community submitted · NIH80 days left
Competition · It's About Time: Temporal Reasoning in Biomedical Knowledge Graphs Challenge
Develop temporal embeddings and reasoning systems for biomedical knowledge graphs. Award: Up to $1,000,000 total purse.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NIH / NLM96 days left
Competition · SPARK PubMed/PMC Challenge
Build AI systems that generate citation-backed biomedical literature synthesis and support complex literature exploration. Award: $250,000 total prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NIH / NLM96 days left
Competition · SPARK dbGaP Challenge
AI-powered genomic/phenotypic study discovery, including semantic variable normalization and conversational cohort-feasibility analysis. Award: $250,000 total prizes.
Eligible for: Master's student / PhD student / Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Industry
- Community submitted · NIH / NIDDK184 days left
Competition · Kidney Artificial Intelligence Discovery Challenge: From Nebulae to Nephrons
Apply AI/computer vision to kidney images, multi-omics, spatial data and clinical information. Award: $100,000 total cash prizes.
Eligible for: Postdoc / Faculty / Independent researcher / Master's student / PhD student / Industry
- Community submitted · Microsoft
Competition · 2027 Microsoft Imagine Cup
Global student startup competition with Microsoft AI resources, mentorship and startup prizes. Award: $100,000 Scale World Champion; $50,000 Launch prize.
Eligible for: Undergraduate / Master's student / PhD student