Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship

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 invited applications for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship from outstanding graduate (MS/PhD) students in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments at UC Berkeley and Stanford University. Fellowship applications included an innovation proposal by a team of two students and at least one faculty advisor recommending the idea. We received total of 46 (23 from UC Berkeley and 23 from Stanford University) very interesting applications from which eight teams were initially selected as finalists and then two teams were awarded fellowships for the 2010 calendar year for their innovation proposal.

On November 18th, Qualcomm held an award ceremony in its Santa Clara campus where the finalists presented their proposals to their peers and the Qualcomm researchers and engineers. All sixteen students of the eight finalist teams received a Kindle for their hard work and excellent proposals. After the dinner, the winners of QInF 2009 were announced.

Each of the two winning teams received a $100,000 fellowship award for submitting the most innovative ideas. The respective academic departments at UC Berkeley and Stanford University will administer funds to the winning students for their fellowship work and research expenses for the calendar year of 2010. Total funding for two teams x two students x $50,000 each = $200,000. Additionally, Qualcomm has assigned a research mentor to each team to help bring their proposal to reality. Qualcomm has also made available offices and labs at Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley to facilitate closer interaction and collaborations with the teams.

Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2009 Finalists

Submission School Students Recommender Proposal
S0007 Stanford David Chen Sam Tsai Bernd Girod Large Scale Mobile Visual Search
S0008 Berkeley Michael Mark David Chen Jan Rabaey Energy Neutral Wireless Links for Microscopic Biosensors
S0013 Berkeley Leo Meyerovich Seth Fowler Ras Bodik Parallel Web Browsing for Mobile Devices
S0016 Stanford David Stavens Jesse Levinson Sebastian Thrun Precision Localization for Indoor Environments
S0037 Berkeley Mohit Bansal Adam Pauls Dan Klein Handheld-Assisted Translation
S0046 Stanford Leslie Wu Sharon Lin Pat Hanrahan Adaptive and Adaptable Map Interfaces for Geospatial Sensemaking On the Go
S0056 Stanford Jerry Talton Siddhartha Chaudhuri Vladlen Koltun 3D Modeling for Everyone
S0065 Berkeley Peter Alvaro Neil Conway Joseph Hellerstein Lincoln: A Data-Centric Approach to Distributed Programming



Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2009 Winners

Submission School Students Recommender Qualcomm Mentors Proposal
S0013 Berkeley Leo Meyerovich Seth Fowler Ras Bodik Calin Cascaval, Mehrdad Reshadi Parallel Web Browsing for Mobile Devices
S0016 Stanford David Stavens Jesse Levinson Sebastian Thrun Ayman Naguib, Alok Aggarwal Precision Localization for Indoor Environments



QInF 2009 Award Ceremony Pictures


Qinf pictures The QInF09 judging committee and the finalists holding up their Kindles.


Qinf pictures The QInF09 winner’s plaque.


Qinf pictures The QInF09 winners from Berkeley, Leo Meyerovich and Seth Fowler, with Nayeem Islam, head of Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley.


Qinf pictures The QInF09 winners from Stanford, David Stavens and Jesse Levinson, with Nayeem Islam, head of Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley.

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