We received 116 proposals from 18 schools this year, from which, 33 finalists were selected (acceptance rate: 26.44%). From the finalists, we selected 8 winning teams (acceptance rate: 6.9%). Each winning team will be awarded a $100,000 fellowship and receive mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.
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School |
Students | Recommender(s) | Title |
| Washington |
Max Willsey, Vincent Lee |
Luis Ceze, Rastislav Bodik, Alvin Cheung |
Program Synthesis for Domain Specific Reconfigurable Accelerators |
| CMU |
Yang Zhang, Abdelkareem Bedri |
Chris Harrison, Thad Starner |
Towards General-Purpose Sensing with Synthetic Sensors |
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Columbia |
Thomas Repetti, Joao Cerqueira |
Martha Kim, Mingoo Seok |
A Programmable Spatial Architecture with Temporally/Spatially Fine-Grained Active Leakage Management for Energy-Efficient Near-Threshold-Voltage Computing |
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Princeton |
Xue Wu, Chandrakanth Chappidi |
Kaushik Sengupta |
Universally Reconfigurable mm-Wave Transmitter Architectures and Antenna Interfaces for the Next-generation of Heterogeneous mm-Wave Wireless Networks |
| MIT |
Hongzi Mao, Ravi Netravali |
Mohammad Alizadeh, Hari Balakrishnan |
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming with Deep Reinforcement Learning |
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Georgia Tech |
Grady Williams, Paul Drews |
Evangelos Theodorou, James Rehg |
Autonomous Racing Using Deep Learning and Game Theoretic Optimization |
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UT Austin |
Lakshay Narula, Matthew Murrian |
Todd Humphreys |
Robust and Secure Precise Location for Connected Vehicles and Pedestrians |
| CMU |
Minh Vo, Aayush Bansal |
Deva Ramanan, Srinivasa Narasimhan, Yaser Sheikh |
Time Travel: Automatically Organizing and Browsing Massive Visual Data |
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Institute |
Proposal title |
Student(s) |
Faculty recommender(s) |
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IIT Kharagpur |
Domain Adversarial Networks for Bridging Cross Domain Semantic Gaps in Computer Vision |
Avisek Lahiri, Abhinav Agarwalla |
Prabir Kumar Biswas, Pabitra Mitra |
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IIT Bombay |
A Deep Learning Framework for Hand Tracking with Personalized Dynamics |
Pratik Kalshetti |
Parag Chaudhuri |
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IIIT Hyderabad |
Real-Time Monocular Object SLAM System for Dynamic Road Scenes |
Junaid Ahmed Ansari, Sarthak Sharma |
K Madhava Krishna |
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IIT Kharagpur |
Automating fault based cryptanalysis in secure embedded applications using machine learning |
Sayandeep Saha, Sikhar Patranabis |
Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, Pallab Dasgupta |
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IIT Kharagpur |
Blind Joint Equalization and Detection in Presence of Non-linearity and Synchronization Errors for Millimeter Wave Communications. |
Preety Priya, Sucharita Chakraborty |
Debarati Sen |
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IISc Bangalore |
Novel selection algorithms to exploit spatio-temporal correlation in opportunistic wireless systems |
Reneeta Sara Isaac |
Neelesh B. Mehta |
| Location | School | Student | Recommender | Title |
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Lausanne/Switzerland |
EPFL |
Bugra Tekin |
Pascal Fua |
Real-time 3D Human Pose Estimation in the Wild |
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Cambridge/UK |
Cambridge |
Alessandro Davide Ialongo |
Carl Rasmussen |
Learning and Decision-making for Autonomous Behaviour |
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Leuven/Belgium |
KUL |
Bert De Brabandere |
Luc Van Gool |
Learning to learn visual representations without supervision |
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 |
Qualcomm's India research center received 31 proposals from 4 schools this year, from which, we selected 4 winning teams (acceptance rate: 12.9%). Each winning team will be awarded a INR 10,00,000 fellowship and receive mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.
| School | Student(s) | Recommender(s) | Innovation Title |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Madras | Akshat Dave, Anil Kumar Vadathya | Prof. Kaushik Mitra | Deep Generative Networks for Computational Photography |
| Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | Sanjeev Mk | Prof. Siddhartha Chaudhuri | Functionality Driven 3D Analysis and Design |
| Indian Institute of Technoogy, Bombay | Ravi Kiran (PhD candidtate) | Prof. R. Venkatesh Babu | Recurrent Deep Neural Nets for Analysis and Synthesis of Hand-sketched Content |
| International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad | Saket Saurav (PhD candidate), Gourav Kumar | Prof. K. Madhava Krishna | Parking Assistant Drone System |
Qualcomm’s European research center received 29 proposals from the 6 participating universities in Europe (Delft University of Technology, EPF Lausanne, ETH Zürich, Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, University of Leuven). Each proposal was evaluated by three researchers in CR&D. After some tough discussions and careful consideration, we selected 9 proposals for the finalist presentations. Each of the three winning students will be awarded a $40,000 fellowship for submitting the most innovative proposal.
| School | Student(s) | Recommender(s) | Innovation Title |
| ETH Zürich | Jason Lee | Thomas Hofmann | A Unified Neural Language Model for Morphology, Grammar and Coherence |
| Delft University of Technology | Tim de Bruin | Robert Babuska | Unsupervised Multimodal State-representation Learning for Robotics |
| ETH Zürich / University of Zürich | Elias Mueggler | Davide Scaramuzza | Event-based Vision for High-speed Robotics |
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 |
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 |
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 *).
| School | Student(s) | Recommender(s) | Innovation Title |
| Cambridge | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
| School | Student(s) | Recommender(s) | Innovation Title |
| Winners | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
| School | Student(s) | Recommender(s) | Innovation Title |
| Cambridge | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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: