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Qualcomm is engaged in a variety of active collaborations with academia from projects at Qualcomm research offices worldwide — following are just a few examples of the many.
David Stavens and Jesse Levinson, with Prof. Sebastian Thrun
We are collaborating to apply techniques from autonomous vehicle navigation to the problem of indoor localization. It also motivated a Stanford graduate class (CS 226) taught by Prof. Thrun to approach the problem of indoor positioning using WiFi SLAM and vision techniques.
Seth Fowler and Leo Meyerovich, with Prof. Ras Bodik
We are collaborating on CSS Matching and Layout Algorithms, in addition to benchmarking and characterization of web browsers.
Seth Fowler and Leo Meyerovich, with Prof. Ras Bodik
We are collaborating on parallelizing web browser for mobile platforms. We raised awareness for better characterization and benchmarking of web browsers and emphasized power efficiency as an optimization point. Seth Fowler has spent the summer as an intern in BARD.
In April 2010, the Korea R&D Center has provided 4 Ph.D. Fellowships to graduate students at Seoul National University and Korea University in the areas of memory and error correction, configurable array architectures and MIMO communication systems.
Our plan is to further grow the relationship with the top Korean universities through collaborations, specific project funding and graduate student support.
Qualcomm has been sponsoring wireless communications research at the State Key Laboratory of Microwave and Wireless Communications of Tsinghua University in Beijing China since 2002. Research topics range from wideband and MIMO antenna design, to cooperative communications, to network topology.
Qualcomm is proud to be one of the initial sponsors of the Princeton EDGE lab under Prof. Mung Chiang, with a donation of $60K. In addition, Qualcomm has loaned an equipment to the lab that emulates a 3G EVDO base station. Qualcomm's donation was followed by matching funds from the University and sponsorship from NSF, DoD and other industry sponsors. Qualcomm is collaborating with the lab on "EDGE" experiments including pricing and network economics, and interference management.
Collaborating with Dr. Blair MacIntyre from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), Qualcomm helped establish the Qualcomm Augmented Reality Game Studio, a research and design center aimed at pioneering new advancements in mobile gaming and interactive media. Georgia Tech is among the world’s leading research institutions for this technology. For more than 12 years, the institute’s Augmented Environments Lab has been researching ways to enhance a user’s senses with interactive media. Dr. MacIntyre, along with collaborators at Tech and the Savannah College of Art and Design – Atlanta, have a track record of creating cutting-edge game experiences for augmented reality. The game studio, located on Georgia Tech’s Atlanta campus, will use Qualcomm’s augmented reality platform to produce concept demos and fully functional game prototypes. The collaboration is expected to produce innovative academic and applied research on augmented reality, while also bringing compelling game ideas and concepts to developers and game designers around the world.