The final winners are selected via a two step process: (i) reviewers from Qualcomm R&D selects a list of finalists who should prepare a presentation about their proposal; (ii) after finalists presentation, the judging panel selects the winners.
Winners
Finalists
Application
FAQs
QInF 2011 Winners
| School | Students | Recommenders | Innovation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| UMD |
Ching L Teo Yezhou Yang |
Yiannis Aloimonos Hal Daumé III |
Robots Need Language: A computational model for the integration of vision, language and action |
| Princeton |
Mohammed Shoaib Kyong Ho Lee |
Naveen Verma Niraj K. Jha |
Algorithm-driven Platforms for Low-energy Intelligent Biomedical Systems |
| CMU |
David Bromberg Daniel Morris |
Lawrence Pileggi Jian-Gang Zhu |
mLogic: Low-Power, Non-Volatile Magnetoelectronic Logic Circuits for Portable Applications |
| UIUC |
Rajinder Sodhi Brett Jones |
David Forsyth | Spatial Mobile Interaction using Depth Cameras |
| UCSD UCLA |
Siarhei Vishniakou Paul Brochu |
Deli Wang Qibing Pei |
I-SENSE – Innovative Technology Enabling New Life-style |
| MIT |
Ahmed Kirmani Andrea Colaco |
Vivek K Goyal Franco Wong |
Single Pixel Depth Sensing and 3D Camera |
| UCB |
Mohit Bansal Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick |
Dan Klein John Blitzer |
Automatic Summarization for Mobile Search |
| UCLA |
Supriyo Chakraborty Zainul Charbiwala |
Mani B. Srivastava | Balancing The Dichotomy Between Privacy and Utility in Mobile Empathic Systems: A Compressive Sensing Approach |
Click HERE to see QInF 2011 Finalists
We thank all the students and faculty who participate in the QInF competition. The Finalists for QInF 2011 are announced below.
Important Notice
- Out-of-station finalists are requested to make travel arrangements asap. Please see Travel Instructions Doc for help.
- Any Non-California Finalist receiving a stipend for Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2011 must fill out this Non California tax form.
- Any finalist receiving a stipend for Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2011 must fill out this tax form.
- Final Presentations must be submitted by 11:00 pm on Wed April 6th.
Finalist Instructions
Congratulations to all the finalists. We look forward to your presentations during the finals.
Here are a few instructions to ensure smooth logistics in the finals.
- Keep checking this page frequently, for any last-minute updates
- The Final Presentations WILL be a major part of the winner selection.
- Recommenders are highly encouraged to attend the events. We learn a lot about the proposal and planned research by talking to the involved people, and the recommenders can certainly help in this regard.
- Prepare a 15 minute (13 minute for talk + 2 min for questions). Practice to ensure that you adhere to the timeline.
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You must submit your presentation in PDF form by
11:00 pm on Wed April 6th
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- Upload a zipfile (including PDF and Powerpoint, if desired) using the QInF Registration Confirmation
- Zip file should be called ProposalNumber-School-Student1-Student2-Recommender1-FinalSlides.zip, where Proposal Number looks like “S2011-0777” and was sent to you in the confirmation email
- The files inside the zip file should also use the same naming convention i.e. be called ProposalNumber-School-Student1-Student2-Recommender1-FinalSlides.pdf etc.
- This will allow us to print ‘evaluation books’ for the judges, before the finals
- If you prefer PowerPoint for presentation, please submit BOTH PDF and PowerPoint files.
- 12-slides max, including the cover page showing all the proposal info shown in the finalist announcement
- Students must use the submitted PowerPoint or PDF slides for their presentation.
- If really necessary (e.g. to show a video), you can use your own laptop. For Macs, please bring a VGA dongle.
- Upload a zipfile (including PDF and Powerpoint, if desired) using the QInF Registration Confirmation
- Both students are expected to attend the finals. But either, or both of the students may present.
- Students must use the submitted PowerPoint or PDF slides for their presentation.
- Mingle, chat, make friends, have fun.
- Note: ALL finalists will receive a ‘QInF 2011 Finalist’ prize :-)
- The eight winning teams will be announced (online) by May 15
Finals venue:
We will hold the finals at the three of Qualcomm's R&D Centers in Silicon Valley, New Jersy, and San Diego. Qualcomm will either provide transportaion or give travel stipends to the finalists. Finalists will be allocated to the appropriate finals location.
QInF 2011 NorCal Finals: Silicon Valley, CA
| School | Students | Recommenders | Innovation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| UIUC | Haohui Mai Nathan Dautenhahn |
Samuel T. King | Making the Web Fast |
| Stanford | Dookun Park Jungsuk Kwac |
Bernard Widrow | Cognitive Control : New Paradigm of System Control based on Memory and Experience |
| UCB | Rikky Muller Peter Ledochowitsch |
Jan Rabaey Michel Maharbiz |
Integrated Sensory Platform for Scalable Neural Interfaces |
| UIUC | Rajinder Sodhi Brett Jones |
David Forsythz | Spatial Mobile Interaction using Depth Cameras |
| Stanford | Tomer London Asaf Cidon |
Sachin Katti Christos Kozyrakis |
System Primitives for Enabling Cross-device Applications |
| Stanford | Fan Wang Zixuan Wang |
Leonidas Guibas | What can you see beyond the immediate scene? --Multiple Context Graphs Fusion for Image Search |
| UCB | Jorge Ortiz Manas Mittal |
David Culler Bjoern Hartmann |
Increasing Energy Efficiency through Mobile User Interfaces for Smart Building Infrastructures |
| UCB | Mohit Bansal Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick |
Dan Klein John Blitzer |
Automatic Summarization for Mobile Search |
| UCB | Reza Naima Pablo Paredes |
John Canny | The Mobile Stress Platform: Detection, Feedback & Mitigation |
| UCB | Hanh-Phuc Le Zohora Iqbal |
Elad Alon Michel Maharbiz |
Mm3 Implantable Communication/Display Systems Powered by Bio-Fuel Cells |
| Stanford UCB |
Peifung Eric Lam Devdatta Akhawe |
John Mitchell Dawn Song |
A Formal Foundation for Web Security |
- Venue: Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley (QRSV)
- Address: 3165 Kifer Road, Santa Clara, CA 95051
- Date: Thu Apr 14
QInF 2011 East Coast Finals: Bridgewater, NJ
| School | Students | Recommenders | Innovation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| UMD | Ching L Teo Yezhou Yang |
Yiannis Aloimonos Hal Daumé III |
Robots Need Language: A computational model for the integration of vision, language and action |
| Princeton | Mohammed Shoaib Kyong Ho Lee |
Naveen Verma Niraj K. Jha |
Algorithm-driven Platforms for Low-energy Intelligent Biomedical Systems |
| MIT | Soheil Feizi Georgios Angelopoulos |
Muriel Medard Vivek Goyal |
Energy-Efficient Time-Stampless Adaptive Nonuniform Sampling |
| UMD | Timir Datta Filiz Yesilkoy |
Martin Peckerar Pamela Abshire |
An Ultra-low Power Infrared Scavenging Autonomous Silicon Micro-robot |
| Princeton | Zhen Xiang Hao Xu |
Peter Ramadge | A Cloud-based Low Bandwidth Machine Learning Service |
| Rutgers | Sejong Yoon Shahriar Shariat |
Vladimir Pavlovic | A Novel Multimodal Mobile Media Rank System for Faster Media Flow |
| Rutgers | Akash Baid Tam Vu |
Dipankar Raychaudhuri | NASCOR: Network Assisted Spectrum Coordination Service for Coexistence between Heterogeneous Radio Systems |
| UIUC | Hossein Mobahi Zihan Zhou |
Yi Ma Vadim Zharnitsky |
Holistic Approach to 3D Modeling, Reconstruction and Recognition of Objects |
| MIT | Ahmed Kirmani Andrea Colaco |
Vivek K Goyal Franco Wong |
Single Pixel Depth Sensing and 3D Camera |
| MIT | Sushmit Goswami Sungwon Chung |
Joel Dawson Anantha Chandrakasan |
A Frequency Agile Architecture for Fully Integrated Radio Frontends |
- Venue: Qualcomm Research Center New Jersey
- Address: 500 Somerset Corporate Blvd, Bridgewater, NJ 08807
- Date: Tue Apr 19
QInF 2011 SoCal Finals: San Diego, CA
| School | Students | Recommenders | Innovation Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| CMU | David Bromberg Daniel Morris |
Lawrence Pileggi Jian-Gang (Jimmy) Zhu |
mLogic: Low-Power, Non-Volatile Magnetoelectronic Logic Circuits for Portable Applications |
| UCLA USC |
Abhishek Ghosh Chiranjib Choudhuri |
Sudhakar Pamarti Urbashi Mitra |
Towards a multi-standard, reconfigurable, truly wideband software-defined radio |
| UIUC | Usman Tariq Andrea Trevino |
Thomas S. Huang Jont Allen |
Exploration of Novel Features for Audio-Visual Speech Recognition |
| MIT | Adam Marcus Eugene Wu |
Samuel Madden | Qurk: A Crowdsourced Database for Query Processing with People |
| CMU | Geoffrey Hasker Hsu-Chun Hsiao |
Adrian Perrig | ASCI-FI: Domain-based Scalability, Control and Isolation for the Future Internet |
| CMU | Shahriyar Amini Jialiu Lin |
Jason I. Hong | ACrowdsourcing Mobile Application Instrumentation |
| CMU | Seungil Huh Jiyan Pan |
Takeo Kanade | Cell Tracking for Stem Cell Engineering and Discovery |
| UCSD UCLA |
Siarhei Vishniakou Paul Brochu |
Deli Wang Qibing Pei |
I-SENSE – Innovative Technology Enabling New Life-style |
| UCSD | Jason Oberg Janarbek Matai |
Ryan Kastner | Development of a Fully Verified Information Flow Secure System |
| USC | Yi Gai Ying Chen |
Bhaskar Krishnamachari | Online Learning Algorithms for Network Optimization with Unknown Variables |
| UCLA | Supriyo Chakraborty Zainul Charbiwala |
Mani B. Srivastava | Balancing The Dichotomy Between Privacy and Utility in Mobile Empathic Systems: A Compressive Sensing Approach |
| UCSD | Nathan Goulding-Hotta Manish Arora |
Steven Swanson Michael B. Taylor |
Understanding the Scalability of Coprocessor-Based Architectures for Irregular Code |
- Venue: Qualcomm Research Center (QRC) San Diego
- Address: 5665 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, CA 92121
- Date: Tue Apr 26
Finalist Program Schedule
2:00-2:30 Registration and mixer
2:30-4:00 Session I of presentations
4:00-4:30 Break
4:30-6:00 Session II of presentations
6:00-7:00 Dinner and finalist prizes
Travel Information
Qualcomm will provide buses for transportation.
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Santa Clara – April 14
- UC Berkeley
Soda Hall - 4th floor entrance on Leroy Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
bus leave at 12:30pm
- Stanford
Gates Computer Science Building
353 Serra Street
Stanford, CA 94305
bus leave at 1pm
- UC Berkeley
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San Diego – April 26
- UCLA
Eng IV at 420 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles CA 90095
bus leave at 11:30am
- USC
Radisson Hotel across from campus between Entrance 2 and Entrance 3
3540 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
bus leave at 11:30am
- UCLA
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Bridgewater – NJRC – April 19
- Rutgers
Electrical Engineering Building
94 BRETT ROAD
Piscataway, NJ, 08854-8058
bus leave at 1pm
- Princeton
meet outside the E-Quad, on Olden Street (or the corner of Olden and Williams Street)
bus leave at 12:45pm
- Rutgers
If driving to QC on your own, please be here before the mixer starts.
We believe that research and development is the key to harnessing the power of imagination and to discovering new possibilities. We are excited to announce a new kind of fellowship that promotes Qualcomm’s core values of innovation, execution and teamwork. Our goal is to enable students to pursue their futuristic innovative ideas.
Qualcomm is inviting applications for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2010 from outstanding PhD students in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at:
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Princeton University
- Rutgers University
- Stanford University
- UC Berkeley (UCB)
- UC Los Angles (UCLA)
- UC San Diego (UCSD)
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
- University of Maryland
- University of Southern California (USC)
Each of the eight winning teams will be awarded a $100,000 fellowship for submitting the most innovative proposals. The respective academic departments at each university will administer funds to the winning students for their fellowship work and research expenses for the academic year of 2011-12. Total funding for eight teams x two students x $50,000 each = $800,000.
Proposals in all areas of EE and CS are most welcome. The following shows a set of focus areas for this year, but outstanding proposals in other areas will be considered as well:
- Robotics
- Design and User Experience
- Data Analytics and Crowdsourcing
- Machine Learning and Neuromorphic Computing
- Computer Architecture and System Software
- Virtualization
- Multicore
- Mobile Device Applications
- Web Apps and Mobile Browsers
- Social Networking
- Augmented Reality
- Markerless Motion capture
- Real Time 3D model acquisition
- Context Aware Computing
- Information Visualization
- Reasoning and Situation Modeling
- Advances in Communication and Networking
- Heterogenous Networks and Communication
- Application-Driven Autonomous Device-Device Communications
- Advanced Circuit Techniques
- Circuits and Architectures for ultralow power
- HW power characterization and architectural power modeling
- Advances in MEMS and RF Technologies
- Wireless chip-to-chip communication
- Nanotube radio technologies
- Other Areas
Timeline
- Application deadline is: February 15, 2011
- Finalists will be announced in: March 21, 2011
- Final presentations due: April 5, 2011
- Finalists presentation: Week of April 11, 2011
- Winners Announcement: May, 2011
Application Process
The main judging criteria is an innovation proposal that must include:
- Introduction and problem definition
- Innovation prposal and relation to the state of the art
- The one year horizon of the project (even if the proposal is a multi-year project)
- The strength of the team for achieving the proposal milestones.
See FAQ for more details.
Winners will be selected through a two phase application process:
1. Finalists selection: applications must be submitted online by the deadline above. Each application must include (in PDF or Word format):
- Three page proposal summarizing your innovative idea
- Letter from one or more faculties recommending the innovation
- Each student’s CV
2. Winners selection: finalist must prepare a 15 minute presentations for the judges. Presentation must be in PowerPoint or PDF format. The presentation generally includes:
- The idea
- The differentiating factors from state of the art
- The execution plan / strength of the team
You can read the official rules of the fellowship here
Please check back to this page regularly for application and program updates.
Faculty & Mentor
In addition to the faculty advisor(s) to guide the fellowship research, Qualcomm will also provide industry experts to mentor the teams, as well as regular collaboration opportunities with Qualcomm Research & Development to further assist with projects. Successful projects will be reevaluated after one year for further research funding from Qualcomm.
More Info?
More Info? Please send your questions to innovation.fellowship@qualcomm.com
Application Rules
Can you have students from different advisers on a team?
Absolutely
Can students without advisers participate?
Sure, but they are encouraged to find a like-minded faculty to recommend the innovation
Are newly admitted students eligible to apply for the fellowship?
Yes, students who start PhD in the Fall of 2010 are also eligible to apply for fellowship. The advisor's recommendation can mention that the student is registered for fall.
Can you have one student from QInF School, and one from outside?
No, since the money is awarded as a fellowship through the school
Can the two team members be from different QInF schools
Yes, for example one from Berkeley and one from MIT
Are there any restrictions on department
At least one student must be from EE/CS
Are there any citizenship or permanent residency requirements?
None
Can a team of one apply?
Nope - we are encouraging teamwork as one of the key aspects
Can Visiting Scholars or Post Docs be applicants?
Unfortunately, visiting scholars are not eligible to apply for the fellowship this time. You are welcome to discuss your proposal and be guided by your visiting scholar associate or your faculty adviser, but both applicants must be EE/CS graduate students
Can someone form two separate two-person teams and enter the Qualcomm Fellowship competition with two project proposals and be affiliated with two teams?
You are very welcome to submit two applications, with two different teams
Can the same pair of students submit two applications
Sure, just go through the application process twice and submit two completely different sets of application
Is there a preference/requirement on the seniority of the students?
Since this is a research focus fellowship, we are limiting this to PhD students. This means that each student must be enrolled in the PhD program for the whole academic year of 2011-2012 to win the Fellowship (i.e. enrolled into PhD program starting Fall 2011 AND continuing in the PhD program till Spring 2012).
Are there any enrolment requirement
Students need to be enrolled in full-time PhD program for entire academic year 2011-12
Proposal
What does "innovation proposal" mean?
| - | Introduction, which describes the problem and current state of the art (i.e. limitations or lack of current solutiuons) |
| - | Proposal, which describes the innovation idea, and what you propose to do |
| - | One year horizon, which explains the target goals for one year and preferably also includes the long-term milestones |
| - | Team effort, which describes each team member's strength and proposed contribution to the innovation for achieving the milestones. Also describe why this team is better suited for this proposal than any one else. |
What size of proposal do you expect?
approx 3 pages
Who owns the intellectual property from the applications?
Students / University
Who owns the intellectual property developed during the course of the Fellowship?
Students / University
Does the proposal have to be the same as the research plan for your Ph.D. under your supervisor for the next year? i.e. can the proposal be for a project that is not your main area of research?
The proposal can indeed be different from your thesis
If the winning proposal is for a non-primary research project, how many hours of work per week do you expect the winners to spend on their projects?
There is no strict requirement on how much time you are expected to spend. We expect the winning projects to be interesting and exciting enough that the winners will want to spend time on the project. In addition to the Fellowship, Qualcomm will assist by providing mentor, and the recommending faculty would be another likely resource for help. Internships in the summer are also possible
Is there any preference on incremental vs. long-term ideas?
No, both types of proposals are welcome
Should the proposed ideas be commercializable?
Not at all. It could be pure research