AMSTERDAM, May 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Qualcomm
Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, today
announced the winners of the 2020 edition of Qualcomm Innovation
Fellowship (QIF) Europe program.
The program is part of Qualcomm's continued commitment to drive
research and development across mobile and emerging
technologies.
QIF is an annual program that focuses on recognizing, rewarding
and mentoring the most innovative engineering PhD students across
Europe, India, and the
United States. The program rewards excellent young
researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence and
cybersecurity with individual prizes of $40,000, dedicated mentors from the Qualcomm team
as well as the opportunity to present their work in person to an
audience of technical leaders at the company's HQ in San Diego. This year the program has been
successfully transitioned to an online event to accommodate
COVID-19 safety regulations. The winners will be invited to present
the outcomes of their research in San
Diego when conditions allow.
"Investment in R&D is a top priority at Qualcomm as
innovation makes our technology possible," said Jim Thompson, executive vice president and chief
technology officer, Qualcomm, Inc. "It's exciting to see the next
generation of AI and Cybersecurity researchers creating such
impactful technology."
This year, eleven partnering universities were invited to submit
work. They have been selected as a result of their academic
excellence in the fields of machine learning and cybersecurity. The
schools are located in Belgium (KU
Leuven), the Netherlands (Delft
University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Switzerland (ETHZ and EPFL), the United Kingdom (Imperial College, Cambridge University and Oxford University), Germany (Max Planck Institute for Informatics,
Saarbruecken and Technical University of Munich) and Ireland (Trinity College
Dublin).
"It's an honor to lead the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship Europe
program into its ninth year," said Peter
Rauber, senior director of engineering, Qualcomm
International. "We are impressed with how the former winners have
succeeded in their endeavors and we believe this year's winners
will impact the fields of AI and Cybersecurity in remarkable ways,
too. The QIF winners are the kind of researchers and engineers who
push the state-of-the-art forward."
The winners of the Europe QIF program are David Burt (University of
Cambridge), Miguel Cacho Soblechero (Imperial College
London), Pietro Frigo (Vrije
Universiteit Amsterdam), Vidhi Ramesh
Lalchand (University of
Cambridge) and Yuki Asano
(University of Oxford).
For more information about QIF, please visit:
https://www.qualcomm.com/invention/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship/2020-europe
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