University Open House

Qualcomm Research Center Holds University Open House to Develop Stronger Collaboration with Academia

On October 10, the first QRC University Open House was held to host academics from 10 California universities and allow them to learn more about ongoing Qualcomm research and have informal discussions with a wide variety of engineers from CR&D and OOTCS. The event was very successful with 29 professors, 128 post doctoral researchers and graduate students, as well as six university staff attending from Stanford, UCSD, UC Berkeley, USC, UCLA, SDSU, UCR, UCSB, UCI and Caltech.

The day started out with a keynote welcome address by Matt Grob, Sr. VP of Engineering and Head of Qualcomm Corporate R&D, followed by a morning of QRC tours where engineers presented over 10 technology demonstrations and 40 poster presentations. After lunch, while several research collaboration meetings with professors were continuing, many graduate students participated in individual informational interviews with CR&D engineers and group tours.

“The event provided professors and students not currently interacting with Qualcomm the opportunity to learn first-hand about our widespread engineering efforts and see the end-product of our work,” says John Smee, Director, Engineering and head of the CR&D University Relations Program. “There were many interesting discussions that began that day, and we hope those will continue.”

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