Faez Ahmed receives AWS Agentic AI Amazon Research Award

Anne Wilson | Department of Mechanical Engineering Feb. 11, 2026

Associate Professor Faez AhmedAssociate Professor Faez Ahmed. Credit: John Freidah

Associate Professor Faez Ahmed, the Doherty Chair in Ocean Utilization, has been awarded an Amazon Research Award in Agentic AI for his proposal “AutoDA-Sim: A multi-agent framework for safe, aesthetic, and aerodynamic vehicle design.” 

Amazon Research Awards (ARA) provide unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating a variety of research topics in multiple disciplines. In this cycle, ARA received research proposals from across the world before publicly announcing 63 award recipients representing 41 universities in 8 countries. Awardees have access to Amazon public datasets, along with AWS AI/ML services and tools. 

The Agentic AI call for proposals supports work on scalable AI agents, human-AI collaboration, and multi-agent systems.

Read more about this year's recipients.