2025 START Program Timeline

Open for Submissions:

Feb 14th, 2025 | 9:00am PT

Submission Deadline:

Mar 21st, 2025 | 5:00pm PT

Final Recipients Announced:

Jun, 2025

Submission Instructions

Please review the submission guidelines and template when submitting your research proposals.

(Click to download abstract submission guidelines, abstract submission template)

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Research Themes

The Samsung START program for 2025 invites research proposals aligned with the following thematic areas.
The specific details and requirements are outlined in the RFP brief documents provided below.

Please note we are also open to considering projects outside these specific themes if they demonstrate
significant potential to contribute to Samsung’s future innovation and growth.

 

1.0 Wireless Communication

1.1 AI-RAN technology

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1.2 Low-power circuit

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1.3 Antenna Miniaturization

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2.0 Digital Health

2.1 Managing chronic health problems using wearables

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2.2 Population health based biomarker discovery

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2.3 Disease biomarkers in Eye and Breath

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3.0 Artificial Intelligence

3.1 Multimodal Conditioned Video Generation

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3.2 Multimodal Reasoning

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3.3 Multimodal life-long memory augmentation system with fast retrieval

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4.0 Camera Technologies

4.1 Computational Optics for Advanced Camera

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5.0 Robotics

5.1 Robotic Foundation Models

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5.2 Human-Robot Physical Interaction

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Application Submission

To submit your application for the START program, please follow the submission guidelines below. When you are ready, click below to agree to the terms of the START program and then send in your application.