Baig and Kim Awarded Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship
Jun 18, 2025 —

Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Ph.D. students Danish Baig and Jiho Kim were awarded a 2025 Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship (QIF).
They received the fellowship for their proposal, “Network-on-X (NoX): Hierarchical Interconnect Modeling & DSE for 2.5D/3D Chiplet Architectures.”
NoX is a simulation framework to enable cross-stack co-optimization between computer architecture and packaging technologies.
As chiplet-based systems move toward 2.5D and 3D integration, traditional tools fall short in capturing the nuanced interactions between architectural decisions and physical interconnects. NoX bridges this gap by modeling hierarchical communication and incorporating real packaging constraints to provide accurate, scalable insights for next-generation AI and HPC systems.
The QIF program invests in Ph.D. students across a broad range of technical research areas, empowering them to take steps toward achieving their research goals. The fellowship will provide Baig and Kim with one year of support to pursue their research, as well as offer mentorship from Qualcomm engineers.
Baig is advised by ECE professor Muhannad Bakir at the Integrated 3D Systems Lab. He received his B.A. in nanotechnology engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada, after which he worked as an optoelectronics design engineer and patented novel techniques for large-area printing of microdevices. His current research focuses on chiplet bonding using nanoscale interconnects. He is on a summer internship at Analog Devices as an advanced packaging intern.
Kim is advised by Professor Cong (Callie) Hao in the Sharc Lab. Her research focuses on field programmable gate arrays design and architecture-packaging co-design, with an emphasis on developing technology-aware simulators for emerging chiplet-based systems. She interned at IBM Research in 2024 and will be a visiting scholar at ETH Zurich this summer. Her recent work was nominated for Best Paper at 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines.
Zachary Winiecki