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2016

2016 U.S. Winners

We received 129 proposals from 18 schools this year, from which, 34 finalists were selected (acceptance rate: 26.35%). From the finalists, we selected 8 winning teams (acceptance rate: 6.2%). Each winning team will be awarded a $100,000 fellowship and receive mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.

School	Student(s)	Recommender(s)	Innovation Title
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU)	Sankalp Arora, Daniel Maturana	Sebastian Scherer	Semantic Exploration through UAV's
Columbia University, and The University of Texas at Austin	Negar Reiskarimian, Ahmed Kord	Harish Krishnaswamy, Andrea Alu	Fully-Integrated Reconfigurable Magnet-less Non-reciprocal Components for Next-Generation Wireless Communication Systems
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)	Chiraag Juvekar, Utsav Banerjee	Anantha Chandrakasan	Hardware Acceleration for Mobile Computing on Encrypted Data
Stanford University	Spyridon Baltsavias, Junyi Wang	Amin Arbabian, Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub	Advanced Ultrasound Sensing in the Modern Wireless World: a Miniaturized Ultrasound Transducer System for Biomedical Applications
UC Berkeley (UCB)	Zachary Phillips, Michael Chen	Laura Waller	High-Speed Quantitative Phase Imaging on a Smartphone Microscope using Color Multiplexing
UC Los Angeles (UCLA)	Mark Gottscho, Clayton Schoeny	Puneet Gupta, Lara Dolecek	Software-Defined Error-Correcting Codes
University of Maryland, College Park	Michael Maynord, Anupam Guha	Yiannis Aloimonos, Cornelia Fermuller	Feedback for Vision
University of Washington	Hanchuan Li, Alex Mariakakis	Shwetak Patel, Alanson Sample	IDCam: Object Identification and Localization for Activity Inference using RFID and RGB-D Cameras

2015

2015 U.S. Winners

We received 146 proposals this year from 18 schools. From there, 35 finalists were selected (acceptance rate: 24.0%) from which we selected 8 winning teams (acceptance rate: 5.5%). The competition was very strong this year, with some of the schools putting in a record number of proposals. We also added the robotics and UAV area. The winners will each be awarded a $100,000 Fellowship and mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.

School	Student(s)	Recommender(s)	Innovation Title
Stanford	Haomiao Jiang, Qiyuan Tian	Brian A. Wandell, Joyce E. Farrell	Rethinking Image Rendering on Mobile Devices
Washington	Carlo C del Mundo, Vincent Lee	Luis Ceze, Mark Oskin	Systems and Architecture Support for Large-scale Video Search
Princeton	Lingyu Hong, Hao Li	Kaushik Sengupta, Haw Yang	When Nanophotonics Meets Electronics: CMOS Optical Biosensor
UCLA	Zhi Yao, Sidhant Tiwari	Yuanxun Ethan Wang, Robert N. Candler	Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonators for Antenna Applications through Multiferroic Coupling
MIT and Cornell	Suren Jayasuriya, Achuta Kadambi	Ramesh Raskar, Al Molnar	Nanophotography: Computational CMOS Sensor Design for 3-D Imaging
UCB	Phillip Sandborn, Behnam Behroozpour	Ming Wu, Bernhard Boser	Wide-range Hybrid AM/FM LADAR Scalable to Chip Level
Columbia	Jelena Marasevic, Jin Zhou	Gil Zussman, Harish Krishnaswamy	Realizing the Full-duplex Potential of OFDM-based Networks: From Circuits to MAC Layer
Stanford	Lucas Janson, Edward Schmerling	Marco Pavone, Margot Gerritsen	Parallel Algorithms for Real-time Robotic Motion Planning Under Uncertainty

2014

2014 U.S. Winners

We received 137 proposals this year from 18 schools. From there, 34 finalists were selected (acceptance rate: 24.8%) from which we selected 9 winning teams (acceptance rate: 6.6%). The competition was very strong this year, with some of the schools, new and established, putting in a record number of proposals. As a result, this year we increased the winning teams from initially 8 to 9 teams. The winners were each awarded a $100,000 Fellowship and mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.

School	Student(s)	Recommender(s)	Innovation Title
MIT	Phillip Nadeau Mark Mimee	Anantha Chandrakasan Timothy Lu	BacMOS: Electronic bio-sensors using synthetic biological transducers
UT Austin	Prabhakar Marepalli Columbia Mishra	Jayathi Y. Murthy	Simulation of Highly Non-Equilibrium Electro-Thermal Transport in Ultra-Scaled Microelectronics
Georgia Tech	Amir Yazdanbakhsh Bradley Thwaites	Hadi Esmaeilzadeh Doug Burger	Bridging Analog Neuromorphic and Digital von Neumann Computing
Stanford	Hao Nan Miaad Aliroteh	Amin Arbabian	Biometric Authentication with 3D Map of Blood Vessels Using Novel Microwave Imaging
CMU	Sauvik Das Gierad Laput	Jason Hong	Everyday Objects for Physical Space Authentication
Caltech	Ron Appel Krzysztof Chalupka	Pietro Perona	Energy-Efficient Multiclass Classification for Visual Applications on Mobile Devices
Washington	Vamsi Talla Vincent Liu	Joshua R. Smith Shyamnath Gollakota	Battery- and Infrastructure-free Devices
Columbia	Anandaroop Chakrabarti Mehdi Ashraphijuo	Harish Krishnaswamy Xiaodong Wang	Massive Millimeter-Wave MIMO for 100G Wireless
Caltech	Kishore Jaganathan Christos Thrampoulidis	Babak Hassibi	Interference Alignment via Matrix Completion for Cellular Networks and Network Coding

2014 International Winners

Qualcomm's three European research centers in Cambridge, Germany and Austria ran their own fellowship programs. Each winning student received a fellowship in the amount of £10,000 for Cambridge and €10,000 each for Germany and Austria for the upcoming academic year, plus assignment of a Qualcomm researcher as mentor to facilitate close collaboration and interaction with Qualcomm Corporate Research & Development. We had 3 winners from each research center location and for the first time we had a European champion winner for the student with the most innovative proposal from the three participating European QInF locations (noted below with an *).

Cambridge
School	Student(s)	Recommender(s)	Innovation Title
Imperial College of London	Hanme Kim *	Andrew Davison	Visual SLAM and 3D reconstruction using an event based camera
Imperial College	Patrick Snape	Stefanos Zafeiriou	Recovering Facial Shape from Unconstrained Images
Cambridge University	Amah Shah	Zoubin Ghahraman	Bayesian Global Optimisation of Expensive Functions
Germany
TU Munich	Qing Bai	Josef A. Nossek	Energy Efficient Design of SIMO Receivers with Compact Antenna Arrays
Institut Eurecom	Martina Cardone	Raymond Knopp & Daniela Tuninetti	Relay assisted downlink wireless channels
TU Munich	Dominik Van Opdenbosch	Eckehard Steinbach	Camera-based indoor positioning using scalable streaming of compressed binary image signatures
Austria
EPF Lausanne	Zahra Sadeghipoor	Sabine Suesstrunk	Chromatic Aberration Correction in RGB and Near-Infrared Cameras
EPF Lausanne	Ngo Tien Dat	Pascal Fua	Augmenting Deformable 3-D Surfaces on Mobile Devices
ETH Zurich	Tobias Nägeli	Otmar Hilliges	Environment Independent low latency Metric Camera Pose Estimation in Dynamic Scenes

2013

2013 U.S. Winners

138 proposals were received from 15 schools. From there, 33 finalists (acceptance rate: 24%) were selected from which 8 winning teams (acceptance rate: 6%) were each awarded a $100,000 Fellowship. We also recognized 2 additional teams with an Honorable Mention and a $50,000 grant each.

Winners
School	Student(s)	Recommender(s)	Innovation Title
Washington	Adrian Sampson Thierry Moreau	Luis Ceze Dan Grossman	Approximate Acceleration
UCLA	Pramey Upadhyaya Juan Alzate	Kang L. Wang	Spin-Based GHz Reconfigurable Switches for Ultralow-Power Memory and Logic Applications
Princeton	Yingzhe Hu Josue Sanz-Robinson	Naveen Verma James C. Sturm	Hybrid Architectures and Circuits to Transform Flexible Electronics into High-value, Large-scale Sensing Systems
Cornell	Ilan Shomorony Alireza Vahid	Salman Avestimehr	Collaborative Interference Management
UIUC	Man-Ki Yoon Fardin Abdi Taghi Abad	Lui Sha Sibin Mohan	Behavior Pattern Inspection: A new Approach for Securing Real-Time Embedded Systems
UCSD	Lele Wang, Minghai Qin	Young-Han Kim Paul H. Siegel	Practical Coding Techniques for Network Communication Systems
UCB	Phitchaya Phothilimthana Nishant Totla	Rastislav Bodik	Programming Model and Synthesis for Low-power Spatial Architectures
Columbia	Changhyuk Lee Sunwoo Lee	Alyosha C. Molnar James Hone	Graphene Resonator Based Mixer-First Receiver on CMOS for Digitally Controlled and Widely Tunable RF Interface
Honorable Mentions
CMU	Chris Fallin Gennady Pekhimenko	Onur Mutlu	Block-Based Heterogeneous Core Designs for Higher System Performance and Efficiency
Michigan	Brad Campbell Pat Pannuto	Prabal Dutta	Solving Node Synchronization, Indoor Localization, and Low-Power Communication with a Single VLC Bullet

2013 International Winners

Qualcomm's three European research centers in Cambridge, Germany and Austria had 3 winning students each for their own fellowship programs. Each winning student received a fellowship in the amount of £10,000 for Cambridge and €10,000 each for Germany and Austria for the upcoming academic year, plus assignment of a Qualcomm researcher as mentor to facilitate close collaboration and interaction with Qualcomm Corporate Research & Development.

Cambridge
School	Student(s)	Recommender(s)	Innovation Title
school TBD	Marwa Mahmoud	Prof. Peter Robinson	Non-verbal communication
school TBD	Steven Marsh	Dr. Simon Moore	Providing an efficient programming model for extreme-scale real-time neural network simulation
school TBD	Joan Alabort-i-Medina	Dr. Stefanos Zafeiriou	Facial point localisation and tracking in the wild
Germany
school TBD	Michael Heindlmaier	Gerhard Kramer	Implementation and Optimization of Noisy Network Coding Schemes
school TBD	Alexander Krebs	Wolfgang Utschick	Forward Cross-Layer Error Correction of Turbo Coded LTE Data Frames
school TBD	Pan Cao	Eduard A. Jorswieck	Power Trading in Multi-Source Multi-Relay
Austria
school TBD	Alberto Crivellaro	Lepetit	A Robust Dense Approach for Marker-less Camera Pose Estimation in Industrial Contexts
school TBD	Zahra Sadeghipoor	Süsstrunk	Joint Acquisition of RGB and Near-Infrared Images with the Bayer CFA
school TBD	Bernhard Zeisl (& Alain Maurice Illi)	Pollefeys	Depth Map Super-Resolution from Noisy and Low Quality Mobile Depth Sensors

2012

2012 Winners

A total of 46 proposals were received from which 8 finalists were selected. Two winning teams were each awarded a $100,000 Fellowship and mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.

School	Student(s)	Recommender(s)	Innovation Title
UCB	Asif Khan Chun Yeung	Sayeef Salahuddin Chenming Hu	Negative Capacitance FET with sub 60 mV/dec swing and high Ion for Ultra-low Power High Performance Mobile Computing
CMU	Chris Harrison Robert Xiao	Scott E Hudson	Synthetic Sensors and Interfaces
Columbia	Michael Lekas Sunwoo Lee	James Hone Ken Shepard	CMOS Compatible Graphene Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Next Generation RF Design
UCB	Sameer Agarwal Aurojit Panda	Ion Stoica Sam Madden	QuickSilverDB: Interactive Queries on Unbounded Data With Bounded Errors
UCLA	James Xu Yan Wang	Greg Pottie Bruce Dobkin	Multi-Context Driven Activity Classification through Three-dimensional Body Motion via Wearable Sensors
UIUC	Rakesh Komuravelli Matthew Sinclair	Sarita Adve Vikram Adve	Addressing the Hardware Challenges of Tightly Coupled Heterogeneous Architectures
Stanford	Alexander Neckar Sam Fok	Kwabena Boahen	Neuromorphics: Programmable Analog Computation Through Reconfiigurable Digital Communication
UCLA	Xufeng Kou Murong Lang	Kang L. Wang	Topological Insulators Based Spin-Polarized FET

2011

2011 Winners

A total of 141 proposals were received from which 34 finalists were selected. Ten winning teams were each awarded a $100,000 Fellowship and mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.

School	Student(s)	Recommender(s)	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

2010

2010 Winners

A total of 80 proposals were received from which 21 finalists were selected. Six winning teams were each awarded a $100,000 Fellowship and mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.

School	Student(s)	Recommender(s)	Innovation Title
UCB	Maryam Tabesh Amin Arbabian	Ali Niknejad	Millimeter-wave Dual-Band Passive RFID Using Antentronics
UCB	Bor-Yiing Su Bryan Catanzaro	Kurt Keutzer	Parallel Object Recognition on Mobile Platforms
USC	Viviane Ghaderi Sushmita Allam	Alice Parker Theodore W. Berger	Modeling The Other Brain
UCLA	Taehee Lee Teresa Ko	Stefano Soatto Deborah Estrin	Object-Level Mapping, Localization, and Change Detection on Mobile Platforms
UCSD	Luke Barrington Brian McFee	Gert Lanckriet Lawrence Saul	Location-, Demographic-, Preference- and Content-Based Music Search and Recommendation
Stanford	John Brunhaver Andrew Danowitz	Mark Horowitz	Understanding Inefficiencies in General Purpose Processors

2009

2009 Winners

The 2009 fellowship marked the inaugural year of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship program. In this first year, 46 proposals were received from which 8 finalists were selected. Two winning teams were each awarded a $100,000 Fellowship and mentorship from Qualcomm Engineers.

School	Student(s)	Recommender(s)	Innovation Title
Berkeley	Leo Meyerovich Seth Fowler	Ras Bodik	Parallel Web Browsing for Mobile Devices
Stanford	David Stavens Jesse Levinson	Sebastian Thrun	Precision Localization for Indoor Environments

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:

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