Wednesday October 28
(3:30 – 5:00pm)
303 Elec. Engr. Bldg
(EEB)
At Qualcomm, research and development is a strong focus. It
enables us to foster new ideas which ultimately lead to future technology advancements
and growth. That focus is also what led us to want to partner with University
PhD students, in order to cultivate new and forward thinking ideas and continue
to further research and development overall. In an effort to establish a forum
for Qualcomm and students to engage routinely, we created the Qualcomm
Innovation Fellowship (QInF) program, which invests in University PhD students
and their forward thinking ideas.
The QInF program is focused on recognizing, rewarding, and
mentoring innovative PhD students across a broad range of technical research
areas, based on Qualcomm’s core values of innovation, execution and teamwork.
QInF enables graduate students to be mentored by our engineers and supports
them in their quest towards achieving their research goals.
The program has been so successful that we now have
participants from universities around the world.
We are also proud of the fact that our program has
experienced continued growth with over 100 proposals submitted each year in the
US and international combined and has awarded over $5 million dollars since it
started in 2009 at Qualcomm’s Research Center in Silicon Valley, California.
The QInF program is open to students from a preselected
variety of top US based and international schools. Students are encouraged to
apply and submit a proposal on any innovative idea of their choice. Qualcomm
Research’s top engineers carefully review submitted proposals and select the
QInF finalists, who are then invited to present their proposals to a panel of
executive judges. Winning students earn a one year fellowship and are mentored
by our engineers to facilitate the success of the proposed research.
The QInF program has brought Qualcomm and the students we’ve
worked with a great deal of enjoyment, from the diversity, quality and
innovation of proposals, to meeting finalists and collaborating with top
winning teams and advisors. We look forward to QInF’s continued success and
growth in the coming years and hope each participating team will succeed in bringing
their research goals to reality.
The program, rules for application, and the selection of
winning students vary slightly per country. For further details, prospective
applicants are invited to refer to the US
QInF website.
Questions about the program? Contact us by sending an email
to: innovation.fellowship@qti.qualcomm.com
