IIT Hyderabad - Qualcomm India Collaboration Workshop

A half-day strategic workshop between IIT Hyderabad (Departments of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science & Engineering, and Artificial Intelligence) and Qualcomm India will bring together faculty and industry experts to identify opportunities for long-term research, technology, and academic collaboration.

The workshop is intended as the starting point for a sustained engagement through joint research projects, sponsored programs, internships, curriculum development, technology transfer, and student interactions.

The program includes institutional presentations, parallel technical breakout sessions, a working lunch to consolidate outcomes, and interactions with students. Each breakout session will identify common research interests, define actionable collaboration opportunities, and establish next steps for continued engagement.

Breakout Sessions

Track	IIT Hyderabad Participants	Qualcomm Participants / Focus
AI & Machine Learning	EE/CS/AI Faculty	Madhu Kandasamy, Piyush Kaul, Praveen Vangala, Srinivas Miriyala. Focus: Automated quantization (RL/AutoML), ONNX/QNN graph transformations, compiler optimization, Snapdragon NPU acceleration.
Mixed-Signal & RF Chip Design	Prof. Asudeb, Prof. Gajendranath, Prof. Abhishek, Prof. Kapil, Prof. Nitesh	Souvik Basu, Srinivasa Rao Nuti, Sai Kochuri
Embedded Systems, Computer Architecture, AI & Compilers	Prof. Amit, Prof. Shishir, Prof. Rajesh, Prof. Shirsendu, Prof. Abhijit Das	Sushim Shrivastava, Ravi Kolachana, Santanu Das, Abhay Mishra, Sudharsan Veeravalli
5G/6G Communications	EE Communication Faculty	Saurabh Shandilya
Wireless Networks	EE/CS Networking Faculty	Nallendran Govindarajan
Multimedia	EE/CSE Faculty	Ashish Malot, Prajit S. Nair
Automotive / ADAS	EE Faculty	Pankaj Kumar Rabha
IoT & Robotics	EE/CS/AI Faculty	Suman Sinha
Pedagogy	Prof. Siva Vanjari, Prof. Soumya Jana, EE/CS/AI Faculty	Rajeev Kurundkar and Qualcomm team: industry inputs on curriculum and pedagogy