Fwd: [CSC - Faculty] Fwd: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) 2024 announcement

[Tiffany Barnes]

This is an interesting opportunity for teams of 2 phd students!

The proposals are due on Nov 30 and would be amazing on the record of anyone going for a faculty position or wanting to have a startup.

Dr. Xu and Dr. Diesburg and Dr. Price and Dr. Boyer I copied you because maybe one of your students and one of my students might like to pair up to make something ?

Does anyone want to do an idea brainstorm next Wednesday from 2-3 pm during my lab meeting?

Tiffany Barnes
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
North Carolina State University

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Note: I check email M-Th at 12:30pm (why?). Apologies for delayed response.

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Date: Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 10:01 AM
Subject: [CSC - Faculty] Fwd: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) 2024 announcement
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Dear PhD students,

The 2024 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship is now open for submissions. The deadline is November 30, 2023.

Details about this program are available from the link below. There is no limit in the number of proposals that may be submitted by PhD teams in our department.

Best,

—
George Rouskas, IEEE Fellow
Professor and Director of Graduate Programs
NC State Computer Science
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From: Dev Putchala <putc...@qti.qualcomm.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 7, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Subject: Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) 2024 announcement
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Cc: innovation.fellowship <innovation...@qti.qualcomm.com>

Dear Profs. Gregg Rothermel, Veena Misra, Jim Pfaendtner,

 

It is our pleasure to announce the launch of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF), now in its sixteenth year. We will be awarding fellowships of $100,000 to teams of two students. For the 2024 North America edition, we invite proposals from 26 schools: USA – ASU, Berkeley, Caltech, CMU, Columbia, Cornell, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Michigan, MIT, NCSU, Princeton, Purdue, Rutgers, Stanford, UCLA, UCSB, UCSD, UIUC, USC, UT Austin, Virginia Tech, Washington and Wisconsin, and Canada – Montreal and Toronto.

 

We ask and appreciate your help in forwarding this information to Ph.D. students and faculty in EE, CE, CS, and related areas. The attached flyer provides key details about the fellowship.

 

As in the previous years, one of the members of Qualcomm Research will be reaching out to faculty members who have recommended student proposals in the past years. We plan to host virtual information sessions for the Ph.D. students in the next couple of weeks.

 

Since 2023, there have been 3 finalists and 2 winners from NCSU.

 

The fellowship is open to Ph.D. students in the Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and related departments, who apply for the fellowship by submitting their application. The Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship is based on Qualcomm core values of innovation, execution, and teamwork. The fellowship is only open to teams of two Ph.D. students. The proposal must be recommended by one or more faculty members.

 

The application deadline is November 30, 2023, 10 a.m. PST.

 

For detailed information about the program, please visit: http://www.qualcomm.com/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship/2024-north-america  

Any questions can be e-mailed to innovation...@qti.qualcomm.com

 

Thanks,

Dev Putchala

QIF 2024 Chair

 

 

 

[Tiffany Barnes]

I'm so glad you are interested, Dr. Xu and Eric!

Our lab meeting is Wednesday from 2-3 pm, in Venture 4, room 420, and also online at http://go.ncsu.edu/g2l-zoom 

BTW, here are winners of prior QIFs: https://www.qualcomm.com/research/university-relations/innovation-fellowship/winners

I recommend anyone interested to read the titles of the projects and come up with ideas that are related to what they have funded before.

Tiffany Barnes
Distinguished Professor of Computer Science
North Carolina State University

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Note: I check email M-Th at 12:30pm (why?). Apologies for delayed response.

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 5:15 PM Dongkuan Xu <dx...@ncsu.edu> wrote:

Hi Dr. Barnes,

I discussed this opportunity with my PhD student, Jianwei (Eric) Li. We concluded that we were very interested in discussing and trying this opportunity together with you.

 

Eric is a first-year PhD student and working in the area of LLM (large language model) safety, such as hallucinations, robustness, and bias. He has already had two research papers accepted by EMNLP2023 (a top conferences in the field of NLP), even though he just started his PhD this semester.

 

I know Qualcomm recently is very concerned about generative computing on edge devices such as voice-enabled smart assistants in the smart home, especially as it relates to security, bias, and user privacy. I would perceive that there is a need for how to help users use edge devices correctly and safely, be aware of potential security issues, and address them. But honestly, Qualcomm itself is a communication technology company, and I'm not so sure how interested they would be in this proposal above.

 

 

Hi Eric,

Could you please attend the meeting of Dr. Barnes’s group next week?

 

However, I will not be able to attend the meeting in person, as I will be attending a conference in Denver at that time. I can attend the meeting remotely via Zoom.

 

Best,

DK

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Dongkuan (DK) Xu

Assistant Professor, Computer Science

North Carolina State University

https://dongkuanx27.github.io/