2019 Europe Program Details
In 2012, Qualcomm Research established a fellowship program in Europe following the successful model in the U.S. For 2019 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. The European winners are also invited to join the U.S. winners day at the Qualcomm headquarter in San Diego, CA.
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 partnership. Our goal is to enable students to pursue their futuristic innovative ideas.
We will be awarding Fellowships to three winning students for the 2019-20 academic year.
Each of the three winning students will be awarded a $40,000 fellowship for submitting the most innovative proposals. The respective academic departments at each university will administer funds to the winning students for their fellowship work and research expenses for the academic year of 2019–20.
The main judging criterion is an innovation proposal that must include:
- Introduction and problem definition
- Innovation proposal and relation to the state of the art
- The one year horizon of the project (even if the proposal is a multi-year project)
- The strength of the student for achieving the proposal milestones
Winners will be selected through a two-phase process:
- Finalists selection: Applications must be submitted online by the deadline noted in the Timeline tab. Each application must include (in PDF or Word format):
- Three page proposal summarizing your innovative idea
- Letter from one or more faculties recommending the innovation
- Signed copy of the official rules document
- Student’s CV
- Above information should be sent in a single zip file named QINF2019_[student-name].zip to the submission portal. Files can be uploaded between January 1, 2019 through February 15, 2019.
- Winners selection: Finalists must prepare a 15-minute presentation for the judges. Presentation must be in PowerPoint or PDF format. The presentation generally includes:
- The idea
- The differentiating factors from state of the art
- The execution plan / strength of the student
Faculty & Mentor
In addition to the faculty advisor(s) to guide the fellowship research, Qualcomm will also provide industry experts to mentor the students, as well as regular collaboration opportunities with Qualcomm Research & Development to further assist with projects. Successful projects will be reevaluated after one year for further research funding from Qualcomm.
More Info?
Do you need further information? Please direct your questions to: innovation.fellowship.europe@qti.qualcomm.com
Qualcomm Research is a division of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.
Qualcomm is inviting applications for the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship 2019 from outstanding PhD students in the following Universities:
- Delft University of Technology
- EPF Lausanne
- ETH Zürich
- Imperial College London
- Max Planck Institute - Saarbrücken
- University of Cambridge
- University of Leuven
- University of Oxford
The following shows a set of focus areas for this year, but outstanding proposals in other areas will be considered as well:
- Machine Learning and Deep Learning for Vision
- Action and Event Recognition
- Fine-grained Image Recognition
- Object Recognition and Scene Understanding
- Person/Face Detection and Tracking
- Autonomous Navigation
- Data Compression using Generative Models
- Zero-shot and weakly supervised learning
- 3D Model Acquisition
- Event-based sensing for Vision
- Use of Sensors and Hybrid Approaches
- Optimization Techniques for Mobile Devices
- Attacks on machine learning models and countermeasures
- Tools and techniques for finding exploitable bugs in kernel SW and firmware & countermeasures
- Micro-architectural attacks, timing side-channels, countermeasures
- Enclaves/containers and heterogeneous architectures
Note: We also welcome proposals in other areas since we are very keen to learn about things we do not know!
Program launch: Launch with e-mail & posters December 2018 - Info session January 2019
Proposal submissions: February 15, 2019
Finalist announcement: March 19, 2019
Deadline for presentation slide submission: April 26, 2019
For more information click "LINK TO ORIGINAL" below.
Finalist presentation: Early May 2019
Winner announcement: May 2019
For more information click "LINK TO ORIGINAL" below.
This opportunity has expired. It was originally published here:
https://www.qualcomm.com/invention/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship/2019-europe