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*This is a free event open to everyone, lunch will provided.

Amcham China cordially invite you to join this educational seminar on Oct 12, at 11am. We are honored and delight to have Prof. Vikram Jandhyala, Electrical Engineering Professor and Vice Provost for Innovation Strategy at University of Washington.

Professor Vikram Jandhyala will speak about the importance of providing incentives to encourage international collaboration in the field of innovation, “inclusive innovation”. He will talk about the innovation process and share a new collaboration model currently taking shape between UW and Tsinghua University, that includes an international network of industries and universities who are partnering with students to tackle global challenges such as health, transportation, environment, and social equity. These projects are wide ranging, incorporating technologies such Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and more.

Vikram Jandhyala​ was featured in a recent Seattle Times article​. The article reflects on Jandhyala’s success at the University of Washington (UW) and passion for innovation.

Speakers

  • Vikram Jandhyala (Vice Provost for Innovation Strategy at University of Washington)

    Vikram Jandhyala

    Vice Provost for Innovation Strategy at University of Washington

    Vikram Jandhyala is Vice President for Innovation Strategy at the University of Washington, Executive Director of CoMotion (UW’s collaborative innovation hub) and Co-Executive Director of the Global Innovation Exchange (GIX). He is a professor and former chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering, an adjunct professor in the Information School and serves on the advisory boards of UW Foster Business School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, the Cambia Grove Healthcare Hub, Partners for Our Children and iInnovate. Jandhyala received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1998. After spending two years in the design automation industry at Ansoft Corporation (acquired by Ansys), he joined UW EE in 2000. His research, which has led to more than 200 papers and several Ph.D. students at top R&D positions, has been funded by DARPA, semiconductor industries, national labs, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy and the National Science Foundation. He has received an NSF CAREER award, as well as awards from UIUC, IEEE, UW and NASA. He founded, along with his students in 2006, Nimbic, a venture-backed simulation company which was acquired by Mentor Graphics in 2014. His current interests are in innovation, entrepreneurial and design thinking, social and organizational networks and computational and data science.

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