Remote Labs team – Akshit Gureja (UG5 ECD) and Nagesh Walchatwar (MS 1st year) working with Dr. Sachin Chaudhari from Signal Processing and Communication Research Center (SPCRC) was selected by Qualcomm under their Qualcomm Design in India Program (QDIP) to exhibit their innovative project as a part of Qualcomm’s booth at India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2024, organised at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi from 15 to 18 October.

QDIP is an initiative by Qualcomm in India for the furtherment of commercial design activities of HW and IoT products & semiconductor startups, encouraging women entrepreneurs and building academic researchers. Only two academic projects were selected pan India for this opportunity, and by virtue of the Qualcomm-supported 5G use case lab hosted at our institute, the Remote Labs project from IIIT Hyderabad was selected to be one of them.

As a part of Qualcomm’s exhibit, the team had the opportunity to present to various MDs, CEOs, founders, and eminent personalities, such as the CMD of BSNL – Mr Robert Ravi and representatives from various media houses like OneIndia, Zee Media, various YouTubers and more.

The team is grateful to Pushkar Apte, Director, Business Development at Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd.; Ramesh Rao, Senior Director of Engineering, Qualcomm India Pvt. Ltd.; Arumugan Petchi, Staff Engineer, Qualcomm; and Jethin Sekhar, Staff Engineer, Qualcomm for their immense support and motivation throughout the event. The team also thanks their advisor, Dr. Sachin Chaudhari, for his constant guidance, without which this wouldn’t have been possible and Anuradha Vattem, Chief Technology Architect, SCRC for providing us with this opportunity.

October 2024