Tech With Impact
The Qualcomm Institute’s strategic plan emphasizes the development of four core high-impact technologies—wireless, photonics, cyberinfrastructure, and nanotechnology—that enable progress in many other fields. UC San Diego holds a large number of records in the photonics and wireless research fields, largely based on experimental science carried out at QI. QI has also become known for its advanced visualization techniques and equipment.
Facilities
While some of QI’s work involves development of high-performance, data-intensive cyberinfrastructure across California, QI’s home base in Atkinson Hall fosters a hub of activity in cutting-edge laboratories where researchers advance their fields and QI affiliates tap the institute’s technology expertise and services.
Nanotechnology
QI’s Nano3 Nanofabrication Cleanroom Facility supports advanced research and development on a near-atomic scale, in which quantum effects become more pronounced and can be used to generate materials with special properties. Providing a cleanroom, microfluidics medical device fabrication and high-resolution microscopic imaging, the facility encourages interaction among researchers from different disciplines; in fact, the name Nano3 reflects its synergetic nature integrating nanoscience, nanoengineering (micro-electro-mechanical systems) and nanomedicine. The facility also provides a venue for nanotechnology workforce training, which is in high demand by the many companies using these technologies. QI’s Nano3 was crucial to the formation of the UC San Diego NanoEngineering Department and, more recently, a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center award.
“The Photonic Systems Lab is unique in the nation and perhaps in the world in terms of its capabilities. It’s really important to have the appropriate equipment—lasers, amplifiers and so on—to make profound new discoveries.”
Grants
QI awards and sub-awards for work in QI core technologies.
Dinesh Bharadia
IARPA via JASR Systems
- Frequency and Space Threading and Cancelation for Multichannel RF Emission Detection with Deep Learning based Characterization 06/13/2021 – 06/30/2024
Dinesh Bharadia
National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: SII-NRDZ: SweepSpace: Enabling Autonomous Fine-Grained Spatial Spectrum Sensing and Sharing 10/1/2022 – 9/30/2025
Yang Cai
Carnegie Mellon University via National Institute of Standards & Technology
- Extreme Reality (EXR) Telemetry Interface for Real-Time Operation and Training in Public Safety 1/1/2023 – 4/30/2025
Yang Cai
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Mobile Video Analytics for Harmful Algae Detection 09/01/2023 – 08/31/2024
Thomas Defanti
Corporation For Education Network Initiatives In California
- IRNC Core Improvement: Accelerating Scientific Discovery & Increasing Access – Enhancing & Extending the Pacific Wave Exchange Fabric 10/1/2020 – 9/30/2025
Thomas Defanti
National Science Foundation
- CCRI: ENS: Cognitive Hardware and Software Ecosystem Community Infrastructure (CHASE-CI) 10/1/2022 – 9/30/2024
Shaya Fainman
National Science Foundation
- PIC: Hybrid Photonic-Electronic Reprogrammable Reservoir Computing with Polarization Modes-enhanced Dimensionality 04/15/2023 – 03/31/2026
Ryan Gabrys
National Science Foundation
- Collaborative Research: CIF: Small: Versatile Data Synchronization: Novel Codes and Algorithms for Practical Applications 6/15/2023 – 5/31/2026
Ryan Kastner
National Science Foundation
- REU Site: Engineers for Exploration 4/1/2023 – 3/31/2026
Zhaowei Liu
National Science Foundation
- MRI: Track # 2 Development of a high-speed super-resolution stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) microscope 9/15/2023 – 8/31/2028
Yu-Hwa Lo
National Science Foundation via Penn State University
- Microelectronics and Nanomanufacturing for Veterans Consortium 9/1/2022 – 8/31/2024
Yu-Hwa Lo
National Science Foundation
- NNCI: San Diego Nanotechnology Infrastructure to fuel science and engineering breakthroughs 9/1/2020 – 8/31/2025
Camille Nebeker
National Science Foundation
- Ethical and Responsible Research in the Design of Sociotechnical Systems 9/1/2021 – 8/31/2024
Truong Nguyen
IT ONE CO., LTD.
- 3D Scene Reconstruction and Dual-Arm Robot Control for Teleoperated Construction 9/1/2023 – 8/31/2026
Our Partners/Clients
- Center for Integrated Access Networks
- Center for Networked Systems
- Center for Wireless Communications
- Center for Visual Computing
- High Performance Wireless Research and Education Network
- Center for Micro-Nano-Photonics Group
- National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure
- Pacific Research Platform
- SciCrunch
- UC San Diego Park & Market
