08 Jul 2025
Niki Amini-Naieni one of the winners of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (Europe)

Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. has announced that Niki Amini-Naieni is one of the winners of the Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF) Europe program. QIF is an annual program that focuses on recognising, rewarding, and mentoring the most innovative engineering PhD students across Europe, India, and the United States.
The Europe program rewards excellent young researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity with individual prizes of $40,000, dedicated mentors from the Qualcomm Technologies team as well as the opportunity to present their work in person to an audience of technical leaders at the company’s HQ in San Diego.
Niki has been selected for her proposal: “A Multi—Task Model for Visual Understanding of the Open World”.
Niki is currently studying on the CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines & Systems programme at the University of Oxford under the supervision of Andrew Zisserman.