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# QIF 2020 North America

## 2020 North America Program Details

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.

[Learn about our other QIF programs](https://www.qualcomm.com/invention/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship)

- Winners
- Finalist Selections
- Finalist Instructions
- Selected Abstracts
- Application Process
- Areas of Interest
- Participating Universities
- Timeline

| School | Students | Recommender(s) | Innovation Title |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| CMU | Xinshuo Weng, Ye Yuan | Kris Kitani | 3D Multi-Agent Social Interaction Understanding and Diverse Future Behavior Forecasting for Next General AI Systems |
| Columbia | Mohamed Hassan, Evgeny Manzhosov | Simha Sethumadhavan | Practical Software Security on Heterogeneous System on Chips |
| UCB | Keertana Settaluri, Kourosh Hakhamaneshi | Vladimir Stojanovic, Borivoje Nikolic | Designing Analog Mixed Signal Circuits with Machine Learning |
| UCSD | Casey Hardy, Abdullah Abdulslam | Hanh-Phuc Le, Patrick Mercier | Vertical Hybrid Power Delivery for High-Performance Processors and Digital Systems |
| UCSD | Minghua Liu, Xiaoshuai Zhang | Hao Su | Learning-Based 3D Mesh Reconstruction |
| UCSD | Shuyang Li, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder | Julian McAuley | Toward Personalized and Multimodal Conversational Recommender Systems |
| UCSD | Sai Bi, Zhengqin Li | Manmohan Chandraker, Ravi Ramamoorthi | Physically-Motivated Deep Inverse Rendering from Sparse Inputs |
| UCSD | Dominique Meyer, Hengyuang Zhang | Henrik Christensen | Temporospatial Fusion of Radar, Vision and LIDAR data for Autonomous Driving |
| UIUC | Suraj Jog, Junfeng Guan | Haitham Hassanieh | High Resolution Millimeter Wave Imaging Using Deep Adversarial Learning |
| USC | Runzhou Zhang, Huibin Zhou | Alan E. Willner | High-Capacity Mode-Division-Multiplexed Wireless Communications Within and Beyond Millimeter-Wave Band |
| UT Austin | Khurram Mazher, Andrew Graff | Robert W. Heath Jr., Nuria Gonzalez-Prelcic | Radar-to-radar interference: System level analysis and solutions |
| Virginia Tech | Yibin Liang, Kangjun Bai | Yang (Cindy) Yi, Lingjia Liu | A Low-Power Hybrid Neural Processing Architecture for Mobile Edge Intelligent Computing |
| Washington | John Thickstun, Vivek Jayaram | Sham Kakade | Source Separation with Deep Generative Priors |

## 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)