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title: "QIF 2022 North America"
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description: "Apply for the 2022 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for the North America region. Application details, participating universities, and areas of interest."
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# QIF 2022 North America

## 2022 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/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship)

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

### Winners

We are pleased to announce 19 winners for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (North America) – 2022.  Congratulations to the winners!

We commend each of the finalist teams on excellent presentations and quality proposals.

| University | Innovation Title | Students | Recommender(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CMU | Safety-Critical Scenarios Generation and Generalization for Autonomous Driving | Wenhao Ding, Jiacheng Zhu | Ding Zhao, Bo Li |
| CMU | Near and Far-Field Sensor Fusion for 3D Body Pose Estimation and Tracking | Yu-Jhe Li, Zhengyi Luo | Kris Kitani |
| CMU/MIT | Holistic Distributed Deep Learning Compilation with Automated Cross-stack Optimization | Byungsoo Jeon, Sunghyun Kim | Tianqi Chen, Zhihao Jia |
| Cornell | Power Inference with Self-Supervised Learning | Chenhui Deng, Andrew Butt | Zhiru Zhang |
| Georgia Tech/UT Austin | Real-time Visual Processing for Autonomous Driving via Video Transformer with Data-Model-Accelerator Tri-design | Rishov Sarkar, Zhiwen Fan | Callie Hao, Atlas Wang |
| Michigan | Algorithm-Hardware Co-Design for Energy-Efficient Autonomous Planning | Anthony Opipari, Alphonsus Adu-Bredu | Odest Chadwicke Jenkins |
| MIT | Gallium Nitride CMOS Technology for the Next Generation of RF Front End Modules | Qingyun Xie, John Niroula | Tomas Palacios |
| MIT | System-Algorithm Co-Design for Efficient On-Device Training | Ji Lin, Ligeng Zhu | Song Han |
| Princeton | Bridging the Gap between Domain-Specific Languages and Hardware Accelerators with Unified Software/Hardware Abstractions | Yu Zeng, Yi Li | Sharad Malik |
| UCB | High-Speed SerDes with Feed-Forward Non-Linear Equalizer on Silicon Photonics for Immersive AR/VR Hardware | Kunmo Kim, Sunjin Choi | Ali Niknejad, Vladimir Stojanovic |
| UCSD | Neural-Enhanced Multipath-Aided Positioning | Mingchao Liang, Wenyu Zhang | Florian Meyer |
| UCSD | Augmenting environment sensing with multi-beam 5G mmWave systems | Ish Kumar Jain, Raghav Subbaraman | Dinesh Bharadia, Aaron Schulman |
| UCSD | Active Learning for Efficient Annotations of Very Large Datasets: Framework, Models, Metrics, and Case Studies in Autonomous Driving | Ross Greer, Kuan-Lin Chen | Mohan Trivedi, Bhaskar Rao |
| UCSD | Transformers as Meta-Learners for Neural Fields | Yinbo Chen, Jiarui Xu | Xiaolong Wang |
| UCSD | Bridging Semantic, Geometric and Physical Reasoning in Indoor 3D Scenes | Yu-Ying Yeh, Rui Zhu | Manmohan Chandraker |
| UCSD | Robust Machine Learning in IoT Devices | Xiyuan Zhang, Ranak Roy Chowdhury | Rajesh Gupta, Jingbo Shang |
| UIUC | Provably Robust Machine Learning for Wireless Systems | Zikun Liu, Calvin Xu | Deepak Vasisht, Gagandeep Singh |
| UT Austin | Tunable ultra-small monolithically-rolled-up filter network by piezoelectric actuation | Zhendong Yang, Kristen Nguyen | Xiuling Li, Songbin Gong |
| UT Austin | Many-domain Processors: Securing 100s of Concurrent Security Domains | Shijia Wei, Prateek Sahu | Mohit Tiwari |

## 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)