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# QIF 2024 India

## 2024 India Program Details

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. proudly announces the launch of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2024-2025 program for selected Indian universities. Each winning team (up to 2 students and 1 faculty member) will receive a financial award for the academic year 2024-25, plus assignment of a Qualcomm researcher(s) as a mentor to facilitate close interaction with Qualcomm.

The Program is sponsored by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. headquartered at 5775 Morehouse Drive, San Diego, CA 92121, U.S.A. (“Sponsor”).

#### Submission deadline extended to April 22, 2024

Winners | Finalist Selections | Application Process | Participating Universities | Areas of Interest | Timeline

## Winners

We are pleased to announce the winning teams of the 2024 edition of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship - India. Congratulations to all the winning teams!

### Winning proposals in the Winners category

| Innovation Title | Institute | Student(s) | Faculty Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ANALYSIS OF IEEE 802.11BE WITH OFDMA-BASED HYBRID ACCESS AND MULTI-LINK OPERATION | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | S Arthi | Neelesh Mehta, Utpal Mukherjee |
| Delay Alignment Modulation (DAM) for Ultra-High Data Rates in Next Generation mmWave and Terahertz MIMO Systems | Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur | Priyanka Maity | Aditya K. Jagannatham |
| A Tunable FDD Duplexer using Electrical Balance with N-Path Filters | Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad | H S Trinath Tammisetti | Abhishek Kumar |
| Development of Hardware Prototype of IEEE 802.11 ad Based Wideband ISAC at mmWave Frequency | Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi | Jai Mangal | Shobha Sundar Ram, Sumit Darak |
| CoGeNt: Cooperative Generative Networks for Enhanced Channel Estimation in Adaptive SAGIN | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | Urbi Basu, Shrikar Kumar Sinha, Akash Kumar Mandal | Swades De, Krishna Sirohi |
| Handling Sparse LiDAR point clouds using Persistent Homology in constrained environments | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | Prashant Kumar | Prem Kumar Kalra |
| Graph-based Multi-Modal Sensor Fusion For Autonomous Driving | Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology, Delhi | Depanshu Sani | Saket Anand |
| Efficient Virtual Memory Management for Irregular Applications under Oversubscription | Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur | Binong Kiri Bey | Swarnendu Biswas, Debadatta Mishra |
| Exploring the Connections Between Brownian Motion and Diffusion Models | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Nishanth Shetty | Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula |
| Detection and Mitigation of Biases in Deep Learning Based Tasks From Blackbox Feature Extractors | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Abhipsa Basu | Prof. Venkatesh Babu Radhakrishnan |
| Machine Learning Driven Compiler Optimizations | Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad | VenkataKeerthy S, Siddharth Jain | Ramakrishna Upadrasta |
| Validating optimizations in LLVM IR | Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi | Sanaa Siddiqui, Kavya Chopra | Sorav Bansal |
| Dynamic View Synthesis with Decomposed 3D Gaussians | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | Nygel George Thomas | Chandra Sekhar Seelamantula |
| Robustness of Hardware IP Protection with Logic Locking | Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati | Praveen Karmakar | Chandan Karfa |
| QoS Aware Power-Optimized Adaptive-Transformer Accelerator for Mobile SoCs | Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad | Sai Dinesh Y V, Vinay Ratnala | Amit Acharyya |

### Winning Proposals in the SuperWinners Category

| Innovation Title | Institute | Student(s) | Faculty Advisor(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Novel PVT Variation Tolerant Temporary Memory for In-Memory Compute Applications | Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay | Sivakumar Elangovan, Porus Vangala | Maryam Shojaei Baghini, Udayan Ganguly |
| Learning to Beamform for Integrated Sensing and Communication Systems | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore | R.S. Prasobh Sankar | Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri |

## 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)