Speech Group Students Receive Qualcomm Innovation Fellowships

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Two PhD students in the ICSI Speech Group have received a Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship to pursue their work on a system that automatically summarizes large amounts of text. Mohit Bansal and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick will receive $50,000 each in the coming year and will collaborate with Qualcomm research and development throughout the year. Their project, "Automatic Summarization for Mobile Search," focuses on developing a system that, for example, can produce a brief synopsis of recent news resulting from an Internet search. The Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship is awarded annually to help PhD students pursue innovative ideas in computer science or electrical engineering. This year, more than 140 teams applied for eight fellowship slots. Read more about the fellowship >>