Intuit Faculty Research Awards (IFRA) 2026 — University Collaboration Program

About this program

Intuit’s AI Research team is offering the Intuit Faculty Research Awards (IFRA) 2026 through its University Collaboration Program to fund academic research projects that advance AI technologies for high‑fidelity financial applications, with priorities including trustworthiness and robustness, guided generation, knowledge‑infused AI, model training, multimodal generative AI, and language agents. Awards fund collaborative, product‑relevant research on an annual cycle and encourage translating cutting‑edge work into open‑source tools and solutions. Eligible applicants are university faculty or academic researchers who partner with an Intuit research sponsor—projects are typically initiated by Intuit team members and must align with Intuit’s research focus; prospective collaborators should contact ai-research@intuit.com.