2018-19 FMA Winners
| Faculty Advisor: | Ian Galton |
| Student Fellow: | Amr Eissa |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Yiwu Tang |
| Project Title: | Dual Reference Edge FDC-PLL for Ultra-Low Phase Noise RF LO Synthesis |
| Faculty Advisor: | Andrea Tao |
| Student Fellow: | Matthew Creyer |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Allen Tran |
| Project Title: | Dynamically Tunable Dielectric Nanocomposites for Adaptive Antenna Arrays |
| Faculty Advisor: | Duygu Kuzum |
| Student Fellow: | Yuhan Shi |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Jaeyoung Kim |
| Project Title: | On-device Training and Computing with STT-MRAM |
| Faculty Advisor: | Piya Pal |
| Student Fellow: | Heng Qiao |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Teja Sukhavasi |
| Project Title: | Smart Sensors for Enhanced Radar Imaging and Localization |
2017-18 FMA Winners
| Faculty Advisor: | Ian Galton |
| Student Fellow: | Raghavendra Haresamudram |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Prasad Gudem |
| Project Title: | Adaptive Digital Linearization of Handset Receivers to Maximize Data Throughput |
| Faculty Advisor: | Drew Hall |
| Student Fellow: | Xiahan Zhou |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Seung Kang |
| Project Title: | Ultrasensitive CMOS MTJ Sensors:Advances towards Lifescience, Automotive, and AR/VR |
| Faculty Advisor: | Andrew Kahng |
| Student Fellow: | Ahmed Youssef |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Kambiz Samadi, David Kidd |
| Project Title: | 3DV PDN Pathfinding and Optimization Methods |
| Faculty Advisor: | Gabriel Rebeiz |
| Student Fellow: | Bhaskara Rupakula, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Allen Tran |
| Project Title: | Advanced Automotive Radars |
2016-17 FMA Winners
| Faculty Advisor: | Jorge Cortes, MAE / Sonia Martinez, MAE |
| Student Fellow: | Aaron Ma, MAE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Ali-akbar Agha-mohammadi |
| Project Title: | Opportunistic Decision Making and Coordination of Human-Robotic Teams |
| Faculty Advisor: | Ian Galton, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Raghavendra Haresamudram, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Prasad Gudem |
| Project Title: | Adaptive Digital Linearization of LTE Advanced and 5G Receivers |
| Faculty Advisor: | Yu-Hwa Lo, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Mohammad Abu Raihan Miah, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | John Hong |
| Project Title: | Cycling Excitation Process (CEP) as a new signal amplification mechanism for next generation imaging and sensing systems |
| Faculty Advisor: | Gabriel Rebeiz, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Bhaskara Rupakula, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Allen Tran |
| Project Title: | Investigations on Phased-Array Fundamentals |
2015-16 FMA Winners
| Faculty Advisor: | Gabriel Rebeiz, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Bhaskara Rupakula, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Vladimir Aparin |
| Project Title: | Advanced Phased Array Concepts |
| Faculty Advisor: | Ian Galton, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Raghavendra Haresamudram, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Prasad Gudem |
| Project Title: | Highly-Digital Ring VCO Based ADCs for LTE Advanced and 5G Receivers |
| Faculty Advisor: | Ying Shirley Meng, NE |
| Student Fellow: | Pritesh Parikh, NE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Michael DiBattista |
| Project Title: | Making the Invisible Visible: Diagnosing Atomic Level Defects in 10nm FinFET Transistors |
| Faculty Advisor: | Michael Taylor, CSE |
| Student Fellow: | Michael Barrow, CSE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Kambiz Samadi |
| Project Title: | Creative Architectural and Microarchitectural Patterns for 3D Stacking |
2014-15 FMA Winners
| Faculty Advisor: | Bill Lin, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Yang Song, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Kambiz Samadi |
| Project Title: | SoC Memory I/O Architectures for 2.5D/3D Integration |
| Faculty Advisor: | James Buckwalter, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Po-Han (Peter) Wang, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Prasad Gudem |
| Project Title: | Generalized N-path Filtering for Wideband Receiver Front-ends in CMOS |
| Faculty Advisor: | Eric Fullerton, ECE & NE |
| Student Fellow: | Richard Choi, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Ken Lee |
| Project Title: | Tunable Low-Power RF Oscillators Based on Magnetic Thin Film Devices for Cost-Effective and Energy Efficient RF Telecommunication |
| Faculty Advisor: | Tajana Rosing, CSE |
| Student Fellow: | Alper Akyurek, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Peerapol Tinnakornsrisuphap |
| Project Title: | Residential Neighborhood Energy Management |
2013-14 FMA Winners
| Faculty Advisor: | Prabhakar Bandaru, MAE |
| Student Fellow: | Hasan Faraby, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Michael DiBattista |
| Project Title: | Optimizing Focused Ion Beam (FIB) Based Metal Deposition for Efficient Circuit Repair and Diagnostics |
| Faculty Advisor: | Chung-Kuan Cheng, CSE |
| Student Fellow: | Hao Zhuang, CSE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Kambiz Samadi |
| Project Title: | Low Power Datapath Synthesis for Monolithic 3D-ICs |
| Faculty Advisor: | Andrew Kahng, CSE and ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Tuck-Boon Chan, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Sorin Dobre |
| Project Title: | Timing Corner Optimization for Design Implementation and Signoff in Advanced Process Nodes |
| Faculty Advisor: | Gabriel Rebeiz, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Chih-Hsaing Ko, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Allen Tran |
| Project Title: | Tunable Notch Filter with Dual-notch Characteristics in the 0.7 - 2.7 GHz Range |
2012-13 FMA Winners
| Faculty Advisor: | Sujit Dey, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Yao Liu, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Fatih Ulupinar |
| Project Title: | User Experience Modeling and Measurement for Adaptive Video Streaming |
| Faculty Advisor: | Ian Galton, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Christian Venerus, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Seyfi Bazarjani |
| Project Title: | Mostly-Digital Fractional-N PLLs for Frequency Synthesis |
| Faculty Advisor: | Tajana Rosing, CSE |
| Student Fellow: | Christine Chan, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Joe Zanotelli |
| Project Title: | Energy and thermal management in heterogeneous 3D stacked multiprocessor SOCs |
| Faculty Advisor: | Yuan Taur, ECE |
| Student Fellow: | Han-Ping Chen, ECE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Chidi Chidambaram |
| Project Title: | Study of Fundamental Device Properties from Testsite Data |
| Faculty Advisor: | Angela Yu, CogSci |
| Student Fellow: | Sheeraz Ahmad, CSE |
| Qualcomm Mentor: | Yinyin Liu |
| Project Title: | Competitive Foraging |