QIF 2026 Europe

2026 Europe Program Details

In 2012, Qualcomm Research established a fellowship program in Europe following the successful model in the U.S. For 2026 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.

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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
Amin Abdulrahman Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy Side-Channel-Secure Post-Quantum Crypto on an Open-Source Silicon Root of Trust Peter Schwabe
Zhuo Chen University of Birmingham Touch from Appearance: Learning Comprehensive Object Physics for Human-Like Robotic Manipulation Hyung Jin Chang
Aleš Leonardis
Yupeng Chen University of Oxford Establishing Safe Protocols for Agent-X Interactions Adel Bibi
Philip Torr
Martin Fink Technical University of Munich Provable Security for JIT Compilers Pramod Bhatotia
Hanna Foerster University of Cambridge Toward Secure-By-Default Computer Use Agents Robert Mullins
Mar Gonzàlez I Català University of Cambridge A Geometric Theory of Autoregressive Reasoning Pietro Liò
Jiajun He University of Cambridge Robust Diffusion Model Control for Multiple-Constraint Inverse Problems with Replica Exchange José Miguel Hernández-Lobato
Tom Jacobs CISPA Controlling Implicit Regularization for Sparse Transformers Rebekka Burkholz
Tobias Kovats ETH Zürich Finding Microarchitectural Leakage in Concurrent Systems Before Tapeout Kaveh Razavi
Zongqian Li University of Cambridge Scaling Agent Skills and Cowork Environments: Training Generalized On-Device Agents via Reinforcement Learning Nigel Collier
Diganta Misra Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems Hodge-Regularized GRASP for Noisy Preference Post-Training Antonio Orvieto
Abhinandan Pal University of Birmingham Neural Model Checking for Hardware Verification Mirco Giacobbe
Jeroen Robben KU Leuven Towards Practical Stateful Fuzzing of Network Protocol Implementations Mathy Vanhoef
Naila Sebastián Esandi INRIA A Theoretical Framework for Zero-Shot Reinforcement Learning Vianney Perchet
Wenfang Sun University of Amsterdam Trustworthy Video Agents on a Budget: Multi-Round Reasoning with Physics-Grounded World Models Cees G.M. Snoek
Christopher Wewer Max Planck Institute for Informatics Towards Scene State Tokenization for World Models Bernt Schiele
Jan Eric Lenssen
Xianghui Xie University of Tübingen From Videos to Policies: Autonomous Robot Learning from Human Demonstrations Gerard Pons-Moll
Jiaxu Xing ETH Zürich Learning Self-Improving Robotic Control Policies in the Real World Davide Scaramuzza

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:

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