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 is inviting 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. We will be awarding fellowships to two winning teams for the 2010 calendar year. Teams are limited to two students.

Each of the two winning teams will be awarded a $100,000 fellowship for submitting the most innovative ideas. The respective academic departments at UC Berkeley and Stanford 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.

Applications proposing ideas in all traditional areas of wireless communications, networking, and computer architecture are welcome. Further, we highly encourage applications in new areas of wireless, such as:

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?

Qualcomm held information sessions at each university – ask your friends for more details:


Please click to view the Official Rules for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2009.

Send any further questions to innovation.fellowship@qualcomm.com

Timeline

Application Process

Applications must be submitted online by the deadline above. You are required to submit the following items (in PDF or Word format):

FAQ

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Send any further questions to innovation.fellowship@qualcomm.com

Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QInF) 2009 Finalists

# School Student 1 Student 2 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
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