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title: "2024 North America Program Details"
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description: "Apply for the 2024 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for the North America region. Application details, participating universities, and areas of interest."
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# 2024 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

Timeline

Participating Universities

Selected Abstracts

Areas of Interest

Application & Proposal Phase

## 2024 North American Winners

## Congratulations to the 16 winning teams of Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship North America 2024!

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

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#### Ruben Purdy

Improving Diagnosis with Physically Aware Fault Models

CMU

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#### Wei Li

Improving Diagnosis with Physically Aware Fault Models

CMU

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#### Kaiyang Zhao

Learned Virtual Memory for Heterogeneous Architectures

CMU

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/CMU-yuang-chen?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Yuang Chen

Learned Virtual Memory for Heterogeneous Architectures

CMU

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#### Ruidong Zhang

Enabling Everyday Speech Communication for People with Speech Impairments Using AI-powered Speech Synthesis on Intelligent Wearables

Cornell

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#### Ke Li

Enabling Everyday Speech Communication for People with Speech Impairments Using AI-powered Speech Synthesis on Intelligent Wearables

Cornell

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#### John Kustin

Towards Intelligent and Adaptive Low-Power IoT Audio Systems

Michigan

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#### Evangelos (Vangelis) Dikopoulos

Towards Intelligent and Adaptive Low-Power IoT Audio Systems

Michigan

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#### Idan Shenfeld

Scalable and Automatic Large Language Models Safety Pipeline

MIT

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/MIT-Zhang-Wei-Hong-v1?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Zhang-Wei Hong

Scalable and Automatic Large Language Models Safety Pipeline

MIT

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#### Rohit Singh

Encapsulated Execution: Towards a Practical Control Independence Architecture for High-Performance CPUs

NCSU

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#### Jiayang Li

Encapsulated Execution: Towards a Practical Control Independence Architecture for High-Performance CPUs

NCSU

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#### Atsutse Kludze

AI-Aided Real-Time Wavefront Shaping to Curve Around Blockages in the sub-THz Regime

Princeton

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#### Haoze Chen

AI-Aided Real-Time Wavefront Shaping to Curve Around Blockages in the sub-THz Regime

Princeton

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#### Colin Unger

A Science of Search-Based Optimizers

Stanford

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/Rupanshu-Soi?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Rupanshu Soi

A Science of Search-Based Optimizers

Stanford

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/Stanford-boyang-deng?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Boyang Deng

Towards Controllable Open-World 3D Scene Generation

Stanford

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/Stanford-Hansheng-Chen?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Hansheng Chen

Towards Controllable Open-World 3D Scene Generation

Stanford

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#### Chenfeng Xu

Efficient Online Map Generation: Perception Models for Geometries and Semantics, LLMs for Topology

UCB

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/UCB-Thomas-Tian?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Ran Tian

Efficient Online Map Generation: Perception Models for Geometries and Semantics, LLMs for Topology

UCB

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/UCB-UCSD-Tess-Despres?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Tess Despres

Crowd-Sourced and Private IoT Device Updates

UCB

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/UCB-UCSD-alex-bellon-1?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Alex Bellon

Crowd-Sourced and Private IoT Device Updates

UCSD

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#### Haoxiang Ren

3D Heterogeneously Integrated Voltage Regulator on GaN/Si-Interconnect Fabric (3DHIVR-on-GaN/Si- IF) for Efficient Power Delivery and Local Power Management of Large Chiplet-based Systems

UCLA

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/UCLA-Jiun-Jie-Chiou-1?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Jiun-Jie (James) Chiou

3D Heterogeneously Integrated Voltage Regulator on GaN/Si-Interconnect Fabric (3DHIVR-on-GaN/Si- IF) for Efficient Power Delivery and Local Power Management of Large Chiplet-based Systems

UCLA

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/UCLA-Haofan-Lu?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Haofan Lu

Millimeter Wave Backscatter Networks

UCLA

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/UCLA-JianTingKo?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### JianTing Ko

Millimeter Wave Backscatter Networks

UCLA

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#### An-Chieh Cheng

DreamGPT: Flexible, Hierarchical, and Interactive 3D Generation via Large Language Models

UCSD

![](https://s7d1.scene7.com/is/image/dmqualcommprod/UCSD-jianglong-ye-1?$QC_Responsive$&fmt=png-alpha)

#### Jianglong Ye

DreamGPT: Flexible, Hierarchical, and Interactive 3D Generation via Large Language Models

UCSD

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#### Jesse He

Explainable Graph Learning for Property Prediction on Netlist Representations

UCSD

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#### Zhishang Luo

Explainable Graph Learning for Property Prediction on Netlist Representations

UCSD

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#### Jiageng Mao

Compositional Foundation Models as an Intelligent Agent for Human-Like Autonomous Driving

USC

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#### Junjie Ye

Compositional Foundation Models as an Intelligent Agent for Human-Like Autonomous Driving

USC

## 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)