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title: "QIF 2025 Europe"
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description: "Apply for the 2025 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship for the Europe. Application details, participating universities, and areas of interest."
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# QIF 2025 Europe

## 2025 Europe Program Details

In 2012, Qualcomm Research established a fellowship program in Europe following the successful model in the U.S. For 2025 the program in Europe will be run as a single competition where students from all invited universities in Europe compete. Each winning student receives a fellowship in the amount of $40,000 for the upcoming academic year and is assigned a Qualcomm researcher as a mentor to facilitate close collaboration and interaction with Qualcomm’s corporate research center.

Finalists

Application Process

Participating Universities

Areas of Interest

Timeline

After careful consideration, we decided to select the following 18 proposals for finalist presentation. Congratulations to the students that qualified!

| Student Name | University | Innovation Title | Supervisors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bruno Mlodozeniec | University of Cambridge | Distributional Influence Functions | Richard Turner, David Krueger, Bernhard Schölkopf |
| Daniel Weber | CISPA | Finding Microarchitectural Data Leakage Vulnerabilities At Scale | Michael Schwarz |
| Fei Yin | University of Cambridge | 4D-VDP: Perceptual quality metric and loss function for 3D and temporal consistency | Rafal Mantiuk |
| Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou | Imperial College London | Towards a Human-Centric Foundation Video Model for Consistent and Controllable Dynamic Characters | Stefanos Zafeiriou |
| Guangyao Zhai | Technical University of Munich | Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation with Feature Field World Models | Nassir Navab, Benjamin Busam, Federico Tombari |
| Ka Wing Li | University of Cambridge | Failure-oblivious CHERI: Enhancing Security and Reliability through Fault-Tolerant Capabilities | Robert N. M. Watson |
| Katharina Ceesay-Seitz | ETH Zurich | Detecting and Mitigating Cross-Privilege Spectre Vulnerabilities at CPU Design Time | Kaveh Razavi |
| Manuel Madeira | EPFL | Understanding Graph Discrete Diffusion | Pascal Frossard, Dorina Thanou |
| Matej Bölcskei | ETH Zurich | Cicada: Swarming CPUs with Timing Bugs to Reveal Formal Verification Gaps | Kaveh Razavi |
| Navami Kairanda | Max Planck Institute for Informatics | Towards Physics-Aware Garment Video Generation | Christian Theobalt, Vladislav Golyanik |
| Niki Amini-Naieni | University of Oxford | A Multi-Task Model for Visual Understanding of the Open World | Andrew Zisserman |
| Osman Batur İnce | University of Edinburgh | Dynamic Integration of New Modalities into Foundation Models | Edoardo Ponti |
| Sina Mavali | CISPA | GoverNet: A Governance Framework for Multi-Agent Systems | Lea Schoenherr, Thorsten Holz |
| Wanru Zhao | University of Cambridge | Test Time Compute with On-Device Small Language Models | Nicholas Lane |
| Yanzhi Chen | University of Cambridge | High-dimensional Information and Entropy Estimation with Sufficient Component Analysis | Adrian Weller, Yingzhen Li |
| Yaru Liu | University of Cambridge | Streaming of rendered content with adaptive frame rate and resolution | Rafal Mantiuk |
| Youssef Allouah | EPFL | Efficient and Robust Certified Unlearning for Large-Scale Models | Rachid Guerraoui |
| Yuecheng Wang | University of Cambridge | Elasticache: Efficient CHERI RISC-V hardware for deterministic temporal safety | Simon Moore |

## 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)