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# Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Winners

## Congratulations to all of our Fellowship winners!

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## 2026 North American Winners

| University | Innovation Title | Students | Faculty Recommender(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASU | Democratizing Chip Design with On-Device Small Language Models as Assistants and Agents | Bing-Yue Wu & Atmadip Dey | Vidya A. Chhabria |
| CMU | Test-Calibrated Thermal Digital Twins for Chiplet 2.5D/3D SoCs | Atharva Raut & Je-Wei Chuang | Tathagata Srimani & Shawn Blanton |
| CMU | Building Helpful Embodied AI Agents with Long Horizon Understanding | Violet (Yinuo) Han & Weiwei Sun | Alexandra Ion & Yiming Yang |
| CMU | Training a Generally Curious Personal Agent: Learning What to Remember and What to Ask | Yutong (Kelly) He & Fahim Tajwar | Ruslan Salakhutdinov |
| Columbia | Learning Physics-Informed Visuo-Tactile World Model for Robot Manipulation | Kaifeng Zhang & Binghao Huang | Yunzhu Li |
| Michigan | Heterogeneous Electro-optic RF-Optical Front-End for 6G (HERO-6G) | Jinze Shi & Yang Lan | Di Liang & Haisheng Rong & Mathew J. Dejneka |
| MIT / CMU | Making Modern Cryptography Faster and More Energy-Efficient Through Hardware Acceleration of Modular Arithmetic | Kaiwen He & Tianyao Gu | Srini Devadas & Elaine Shi |
| Stanford | Safety Guardrails for Reasoning in End-to-End Autonomous Driving Foundation Models | Aryaman Gupta & Sathwik Karnik | Somil Bansal |
| Stanford | Physically Grounded World Modeling through Controllable Visual Generative Models | Zizhang Li & Ziyu Chen | Jiajun Wu |
| Stanford | State-Space World Models for Intelligent RAN | Muhammad Ahmed Mohsin & Muhammad Umer | John M. Cioffi |
| UCLA | Heterogeneous Chiplet-Based Architecture for Fully-Weight-Stationary Compute-in-Memory execution of Billion-Parameter models | George Karfakis & Samyak Chakrabarty | Puneet Gupta & Sudhakar Pamarti |
| UCLA | Think Deep - Move Fast: Building Vision-Language-Action Model for Generalizable Autonomous Driving with Deep Reasoning and Efficient Action Generation | Seth Z. Zhao & Zewei Zhou | Bolei Zhou & Jiaqi Ma |
| UCLA | Thermocompression Bonded III-V/Si Integration Platform for Optical, RF/mmWave, and Power Devices | Sujoy Ghosh & Daniel McGovern | Subramanian S. Iyer & Benjamin Williams |
| UCSD | Reasoning Compiler: LLM-Guided Optimizations for Efficient Model Serving | Sujun Tang & Christopher Priebe | Hadi Esmaeilzadeh |
| UCSD | K-MEM: Synergizing Agentic Textual Memory with KV-Cache Reuse for Long-Horizon Agents | Nilesh Prasad Pandey & Lanxiang Hu | Tajana Rosing & Hao Zhang |
| UCSD | When Multimodal Sensing Meets the RAN: Sensing-to-Action Autonomy at the Edge | Ushasi Ghosh & Sreevatsank Kadaveru | Dinesh Bharadia & Aaron Schulman |

## Fellowship Winners and Finalists

The Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship began in 2009, and has continued to grow with the addition of more universities, more candidates, and expansion to our research centers internationally. Take a look at a list of all our fellowship winners and finalists from years past:

[Winners](https://www.qualcomm.com/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship/winners)
[Finalists](https://www.qualcomm.com/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship/finalists)