Silicon Valley, California

Focused on cutting-edge security, high performance compute and machine learning.

Qualcomm Research Silicon Valley conducts cutting-edge research in all aspects of security. We are applying analysis techniques such as machine learning on mobile devices and in the network to detect threats early. We are exploring new types of appliances and analysis techniques to thwart attackers. Some of the work has already been commercialized as Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ Smart Protect. Qualcomm is uniquely positioned to create and deploy these new paradigms of security.

Qualcomm Research is a division of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.

Areas of Expertise

Security, Network and Mobile Security, High Performance Computing

Research Projects in Silicon Valley

High Performance Computing

Goal: Research technologies to build high performance applications that are power and thermal efficient
Design and develop runtime systems and heterogeneous programming environments that enable programmers to take full advantage of concurrent and heterogeneous hardware to optimize for power, thermal, and performance
Co-design software and hardware accelerators for domain specific functions
Design and develop high performance libraries for application domains, such as linear algebra, machine learning, computer vision

Smart Mobile System Security

Goal: Research and develop dynamic on-device security and privacy solutions to protect mobile systems from malware and zero-day vulnerabilities
Design optimized machine learning and behavioral analysis techniques for mobile security and network anomaly detection
Harness Qualcomm SoC capabilities for efficient and low power hardware-enhanced security solutions
Develop techniques to safeguard mobile devices from software vulnerabilities and malicious applications

Learn about Smart Protect™

Compiler for Embedded Processors

Goal: Research Language, Compilation and Co-design techniques to enable efficient programming of special purpose accelerator architectures
Develop domain-specific language and software abstractions for areas such as Baseband Signal Processing, Image Processing, etc.
Research compiler optimizations to analyze, transform and compile high-level language programs for data and instruction, parallel processor architectures
Deliver tools to enable rapid exploration of domain-specific processor architecture, and hardware/software co-design

Enterprise Security

Goal: Research technologies to secure enterprise environments
New algorithms for early intrusion detection, data protection, and information tracking
Hardware-software co-design of accelerators for network monitoring
Design secure computing infrastructures for enterprise services