Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Finalists
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2025 South Korea Finalists
| Application number |
Paper title | Student(s) | University |
|---|---|---|---|
| QIFK2025_1 | Learning to Sample Effective and Diverse Prompts for Text-to-Image Generation | Taeyoung-Yun | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_5 | RePIC: Reinforced Post-Training for Personalizing Multi-Modal Language Models | Yeongtak Oh | Seoul National University |
| QIFK2025_7 | HOT: Hadamard-based Optimized Training | Seonggon-Kim | POSTECH |
| QIFK2025_8 | Random Conditioning with Distillation for Data-Efficient Diffusion Model Compression | Dohyun Kim, Sehwan Park | Korea University |
| QIFK2025_10 | By My Eyes: Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models with Sensor Data via Visual Prompting | Hyungjun Yoon | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_21 | SynQ: Accurate Zero-shot Quantization by Synthesis-aware Fine-tuning | Minjun Kim | Seoul National University |
| QIFK2025_22 | Strict Subgoal Execution: Reliable Long-Horizon Planning in Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning | Jaebak Hwang | UNIST |
| QIFK2025_27 | Multi-Granular Spatio-Temporal Token Merging for Training-Free Acceleration of Video LLMs | Jeongseok Hyun | Yonsei University |
| QIFK2025_29 | Interaction-Merged Motion Planning: Effectively Leveraging Diverse Motion Datasets for Robust Planning | Giwon-Lee, Wooseong Jeong | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_31 | Curriculum Debiasing: Toward Robust Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Against Dataset Biases | Mingyu Lee | Korea University |
| QIFK2025_34 | Perspective-Aware Reasoning in Vision-Language Models via Mental Imagery Simulation | Phillip Yuseung Lee | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_35 | Representation Alignment for Generation: Training Diffusion Transformers Is Easier Than You Think | Sihyun Yu | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_41 | Ev-3DOD: Pushing the Temporal Boundaries of 3D Object Detection with Event Cameras | Hoonhee Cho, Jae-Young Kang | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_55 | Seurat: From Moving Points to Depth | Seokju Cho | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_59 | DoMIX: An Efficient Framework for Exploiting Domain Knowledge in Fine-Tuning | Dohoon-Kim | Seoul National University |
| QIFK2025_61 | Fine-Tuning Visual Autoregressive Models for Subject-Driven Generation | Jiwoo Chung | Sungkyunkwan University |
| QIFK2025_62 | Localized Concept Erasure for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models Using Training-Free Gated Low-Rank Adaptation | Byung Hyun Lee, Sungjin Lim | Seoul National University |
| QIFK2025_68 | Personalized Language Models via Privacy-Preserving Evolutionary Model Merging | Kyuyoung Kim | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_69 | Bayesian Code Diffusion for Efficient Automatic Deep Learning Program Optimization | Isu Jeong | UNIST |
| QIFK2025_72 | Zero-shot Depth Completion via Test-time Alignment with Affine-invariant Depth Prior | Hyoseok Lee | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_74 | Distilling Dataset into Neural Field | Donghyeok Shin | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_78 | Flat Reward In Policy Parameter Space Implies Robust Reinforcement Learning | Hyunkyu-Lee | UNIST |
| QIFK2025_86 | Fine-Grained Image-Text Correspondence with Cost Aggregation for Open-Vocabulary Part Segmentation | Jiho-Choi, Seonho Lee | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_89 | Temporal Alignment-Free Video Matching for Few-shot Action Recognition | SuBeen Lee | Sungkyunkwan University |
| QIFK2025_96 | 3D-Aware Vision-Language Models Fine-Tuning with Geometric Distillation | Seonho Lee, Jiho Choi | KAIST |
| QIFK2025_107 | FACIL: Flexible DRAM Address Mapping for SoC-PIM Cooperative On-device LLM Inference | Seong Hoon Seo | Seoul National University |
| QIFK2025_116 | L4Q: Parameter Efficient Quantization-Aware Fine-Tuning on Large Language Models | Hyesung Jeon | Seoul National University |
| QIFK2025_119 | SAFE: Finding Sparse and Flat Minima to Improve Pruning | Dongyeop Lee | POSTECH |
| QIFK2025_120 | Comparison-based Active Preference Learning for Multi-dimensional Personalization | Minhyeon Oh | POSTECH |
| QIFK2025_121 | Dr. Splat: Directly Referring 3D Gaussian Splatting via Direct Language Embedding Registration | Junseong-Kim | POSTECH |
2025 North American Finalists
| University | Innovation Title | Students | Recommender(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ASU | Silicon Lifecycle Management Hardware/Software Codesign for Reliable/Safe Edge Compute | Eduardo Ortega & Arjun Hati | Krishnendu Chakrabarty |
| ASU | SMART: Scalable Machine Learning-Assisted Routing-Aware Testing for Many-Chiplet FOWLP | Dhruv Thapar & Partho Bhoumik | Krishnendu Chakrabarty & Sung Kyu Lim |
| CMU | 4D COMPOSITIONAL CUSTOMIZATION OF VIDEO GENERATIVE MODELS | Gaurav Parmar & Nupur Kumari | Jun-Yan Zhu & Srinivasa Narasimhan |
| CMU | Algorithm Learning for Adaptive-Reasoning Foundation Models | Yuxiao Qu & Chen Wu | Aviral Kumar & Aditi Raghunathan |
| CMU | Contactless Cardiovascular Health Monitoring using AI-enabled mmWave Radars | Jiangyifei Zhu & Kuang Yuan | Swarun Kumar & Justin Chan |
| CMU | Towards Full Safe Autonomy: Uncertainty-aware Sensor Fusion and Multimodal Visual Localization for Handling Adverse Operating Conditions in Autonomous Vehicles | Nishad Sahu & Shounak Sural | Dr. Raj Rajkumar |
| Columbia | Fast Manifold Denoising by Learning Traversals | Shiyu Wang & Mariam Avagyan | John Wright |
| Columbia | PhysFM: Physics-Informed Foundation Models from and for Embodied Actions | Yixuan Wang & Kaifeng Zhang | Yunzhu Li |
| Cornell | 3D Reconstruction from Motion-Blurred Images | Hanyu Chen & Jingsen Zhu | Wei-Chiu Ma & Noah Snavely |
| Cornell | In-SRAM Acceleration for Similarity Search | Niansong Zhang & Hongzheng Chen | Zhiru Zhang |
| Georgia Tech | Network-on-X: Hierarchical Modeling and DSE for 3D Heterogeneous Chiplet Architectures | Jiho Kim & Danish Baig | Cong (Callie) Hao & Muhannad S. Bakir |
| Michigan | Ambient IoT: Powering the Next Generation of IoT Devices with 5G/6G mmWave Signals | Skanda Harisha & Yasir Abdullah Al-Theyabi | Aline Eid & David Wentzloff |
| Michigan | Simultaneous Scene Understanding and Action in Real World | Chankyo Kim & Junzhe Wu | Maani Ghaffari & Minghan Zhu |
| NCSU | Branch Outcome Reuse: CPU performance improvement by maximizing reuse of control-independent branch outcomes generated on the incorrect path | Rohit Singh & Jiayang Li | Eric Rotenberg & James Tuck |
| Princeton | AI-Enabled End-to-end Synthesis of Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits and Systems | Jonathan Zhou & Sherif Ghozzy | Kaushik Sengupta |
| Princeton | Joint Communication and Sensing Using Beams Carrying Orbital Angular Momentum | Ruiyi Shen & Poorya Mollahosseini | Yasaman Ghasempour |
| Princeton, UCSB | Accurate and Computation-Efficient Near-Field Digital Twin for 6G and Beyond | Vahid Yazdnian & Oveys Delafrooz | Yasaman Ghasempour & Upamanyu Madhow |
| Purdue University | AutoUP: Unit Proof Generation for Enabling Code-level Security Verification | Paschal Amusuo & Dharun Anandayuvaraj | James C Davis & Aravind Machiry |
| Purdue University | Machine learning based power estimation for reconfigurable SoCs | Sujay Pandit & Aradhana Mohan Parvathy | Anand Raghunathan |
| Purdue University | Security Analysis of End-to-End Autonomous Driving Systems | Ruoyu Song & Ananth Shreekumar | Berkay Celik & Antonio Bianchi |
| Stanford | Decoupling Algorithms from Data Structures for High-Performance Computing | Christophe Gyurgyik & Alexander J Root | Fredrik Kjolstad |
| Stanford | Towards Physics-Grounded 4D Human Generation | Tiange Xiang & Yang Zheng | Fei-Fei Li & Leonidas Guibas |
| Stanford | Ultra-fast Sampling for Video Diffusion Models | Jiaqi Han & Minkai Xu | Stefano Ermon |
| UCB | 4D-aware Planning-oriented World Model for End-to-end Autonomous Driving | Yuxin Chen & Chensheng Peng | Masayoshi Tomizuka |
| UCB | Bridging the Real2Sim2Real Gap for Generalizable Robot Learning with Dynamic 3D Modeling | Haoran Geng & Junyi Zhang | Jitendra Malik & Trevor Darrell |
| UCB | Design and Development of an Integrated 48V-to-1V Hybrid Switched Capacitor DC-DC Converter for Automotive SoCs | Syed Tahmid Mahbub & Sahana Krishnan | Robert Pilawa-Podgurski |
| UCB | Generating interpretable agent policies through LLM guided program synthesis | Carlo Bosio & Matteo Guarrera | Mark W. Mueller & Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli |
| UCSB | Enhancing Protocol Compatibility Verification in SoC Design | Yeganeh Aghamohammadibonab & Pranjali Jain | Jonathan Balkind |
| UCSD | Deep Learning for Channel Prediction in the Upper Mid-band aided by Out-of-Band Measurements | Seyed Alireza Javid & Yun Chen | Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic |
| UCSD | Meta-Prompting for Scalable and Efficient Adaptation, Personalization, and Fine-Grained Control of Foundation Models | Deepak Sridhar & Alakh Himanshu Desai | Nuno Vasconcelos |
| UCSD | O(N) Vision Language Model for Long Context Understanding with Test Time Training | Xinhao Li & Rizhao Qiu | Xiaolong Wang |
| UCSD, Princeton | Building Bridges: Safe Interactions with Foreign Languages through Encapsulated Functions | Leon Schuermann & Tyler Potyondy | Amit Levy & Pat Pannuto |
| UCSD, Purdue University | Hardware and Software Support for Fine-Grained Interrupts | Linsong Guo & Berk Aydogmus | Kazem Taram & Amy Ousterhout |
| UIUC | Accelerator Virtualization through Shared-memory | Vignesh Suresh & Sriram Devata | Sarita Adve |
| UIUC | Joint Runtime and Transport Protocol Design for Distributed XR | Milind Kumar Vaddiraju & Qinjun Jiang | Brighten Godfrey & Sarita Adve |
| UIUC | Neural Fields for Indoor Wireless Propagation Simulation & Modeling | Saif Ur Rahman & Mingyue Tang | Prof. Elahe Soltanaghai |
| UIUC | Thermal and Signal Integrity-Aware Design of Chiplet-Based System-in-Package | Ram Krishna & Michael Molter | Elyse Rosenbaum |
| UMD | Less Attention, Much Faster: Toward a Future of Efficiency-Optimized Transformer Architectures | Shwai He & Guoheng Sun | Ang Li |
| University of Toronto | A Unified Framework for Sub-Linear Composition of Differential Privacy | Danya Lette & Sky Li | Azadeh Farzan & Aleksandar Nikolov |
| University of Toronto | Generalizable and Applicable Motion Forecasting Models in Autonomous Driving | Letian Wang & Sandro Papais | Steven Waslander |
| University of Toronto | Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Unified Perception and Prediction World Models | Sandro Papais & Letian Wang | Steven Waslander |
| University of Toronto | Toward Perception-Decision Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving | Qiao Gu & Letian Wang | Steven Waslander & Florian Shkurti |
| USC | AI Powered Revolution: Automating Analog and Radio Frequency Circuit Design | Asal Mehradfar & Emir Ceyani | Salman Avestimehr |
| USC | Building Next-Generation Foundation Models for Autonomous Driving through Self-Supervised 4D Neural Reconstruction | Jiawei Yang & Cameron Smith | Yue Wang |
| USC | Scalable Immersive Communications with Rendering-Aware 3D Gaussian Splatting Compression | Shashank Nelamangala Sridhara & Samuel Fernández | Antonio Ortega |
| UT Austin | Efficient and Controllable Diffusion Models with Explicit Geometry Modelling of Data Distribution | Yuehao Wang & Hanwen Jiang | Atlas Wang & Qixing Huang |
| UT Austin | Weightless Language Models - Towards Ultra Low Energy Edge Efficient LLMs | Shashank Nag & Mugdha Jadhao | Lizy K John |
| Virginia Tech | Leveraging RAG and LoRA Models for Enhanced Visual Content | Tuna Han Salih Meral & Hidir Yesiltepe | Pinar Yanardag Delul |
| Washington | Learning Multi-modal Agents that Can Reason and Act for Complex Multi- modal Tasks with Synthetic Data | Zixian Ma & Yushi Hu | Ranjay Krishna |
| Washington | Productive Programming of Multi-Threaded Hardware Accelerators | Megan Frisella & Andrew Alex | Gilbert Bernstein |
| Washington | Ultra-low power Coherent Front-haul Optical Links to Enable multi-Tb/s Capacity for 6G Massive MIMOs and Edge AI Datacenters | Marziyeh Rezaei & Pengyu Zeng | Sajjad Moazeni |
| Wisconsin-Madison | Quanta-GenAI On The Edge | Aryan Garg & Varun Sundar | Mohit Gupta & Aswin Sankaranarayanan |
2025 East Asia Finalists
| University | Innovation Title | Student(s) | Recommender(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| National Cheng Kung University | Language Model Linearization Through Parameter-Efficient Tuning | Zhi-Quan Feng | Hung-Yu Kao & Kun-Ta Chuang |
| National Cheng Kung University | Improving Semi-supervised Federated Learning with Cross-Site Pseudo-Label Reliability Assessment | Chien-Yu Chiou | Pau-Choo Chung |
| National Tsing Hua University Taiwan | Interactive Immersive Streaming System in Next-Generation Networks | Yuan-Chun Sun | Cheng-Hsin Hsu & Wei Tsang Ooi |
| National Tsing Hua University Taiwan | Universal Cross-domain Adaptation for Versatile Image Restoration | Fu-Jen Tsai & Hao Wang | Chia-Wen Lin & Yen-Yu Lin |
| National Yang Ming Chaio Tung University | Machine Learning for Compact Modeling in Advanced CFETs | Min-Hui Chuang | Yiming Li |
| National Yang Ming Chaio Tung University | Visual Background Generation based on Semantic and Emotional Information in Speech | Tzu-Chi Liu & Po-Chung Jen | Yong-Sheng, Chen |
| National Yang Ming Chaio Tung University | APEX: Accelerating Post-Quantum Cryptography Algorithms on the Heterogeneous Neural Processing Unit | Fang-Ting Wu & Aldo Valentin Balsamo Reyes | Tsung Tai Yeh & Yu-Sung Wu |
| National Yang Ming Chaio Tung University | A Lightweight, VLM-based Ranking Adapter for Text-driven Image Quality and Aesthetics Assessment | Wei-Hsiang Yu | Yen-Yu Lin |
| Yuan Ze University | Advanced Speaker and Acoustic Event Diarization System with Voice Anonymization for Operating Room Environments | Suriya Prakash Rajan | Hong, Wei-Tyng & Chau, Yawgeng |
| Yuan Ze University | A Voice-based Diabetes Mellitus Screening System With Cross-validation on Diabetic Retinopathy Grading | Chia-Shiang Chen | Huang-Chia Shih & Yaw-Geng Chau |
2025 Europe Finalists
| University | Innovation Title | Student | Recommender(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISPA | Finding Microarchitectural Data Leakage Vulnerabilities At Scale | Daniel Weber | Michael Schwarz |
| CISPA | GoverNet: A Governance Framework for Multi-Agent Systems | Sina Mavali | Lea Schoenherr Thorsten Holz |
| EPFL | Understanding Graph Discrete Diffusion | Manuel Madeira | Pascal Frossard Dorina Thanou |
| EPFL | Efficient and Robust Certified Unlearning for Large-Scale Models | Youssef Allouah | Rachid Guerraoui |
| ETH Zürich | Detecting and Mitigating Cross-Privilege Spectre Vulnerabilities at CPU Design Time | Katharina Ceesay-Seitz | Kaveh Razavi |
| ETH Zürich | Cicada: Swarming CPUs with Timing Bugs to Reveal Formal Verification Gaps | Matej Bölcskei | Kaveh Razavi |
| Imperial College London | Towards a Human-Centric Foundation Video Model for Consistent and Controllable Dynamic Characters | Foivos Paraperas Papantoniou | Stefanos Zafeiriou |
| Max Planck Institute for Informatics | Towards Physics-Aware Garment Video Generation | Navami Kairanda | Christian Theobalt Vladislav Golyanik |
| Technical University of Munich | Open-Vocabulary Mobile Manipulation with Feature Field World Models | Guangyao Zhai | Nassir Navab Benjamin Busam Federico Tombari |
| University of Cambridge | Distributional Influence Functions | Bruno Mlodozeniec | Richard Turner David Krueger Bernhard Schölkopf |
| University of Cambridge | 4D-VDP: Perceptual quality metric and loss function for 3D and temporal consistency | Fei Yin | Rafal Mantiuk |
| University of Cambridge | Failure-oblivious CHERI: Enhancing Security and Reliability through Fault-Tolerant Capabilities | Ka Wing Li | Robert N. M. Watson |
| University of Cambridge | Test Time Compute with On-Device Small Language Models | Wanru Zhao | Nicholas Lane |
| University of Cambridge | High-dimensional Information and Entropy Estimation with Sufficient Component Analysis | Yanzhi Chen | Adrian Weller Yingzhen Li |
| University of Cambridge | Streaming of rendered content with adaptive frame rate and resolution | Yaru Liu | Rafal Mantiuk |
| University of Cambridge | Elasticache: Efficient CHERI RISC-V hardware for deterministic temporal safety | Yuecheng Wang | Simon Moore |
| University of Edinburgh | Dynamic Integration of New Modalities into Foundation Models | Osman Batur İnce | Edoardo Ponti |
| University of Oxford | A Multi-Task Model for Visual Understanding of the Open World | Niki Amini-Naieni | Andrew Zisserman |
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:
