Raghupathy Sivakumar, a professor of electrical and engineering, has been selected to consolidate Georgia Tech's tech transfer strategy as chief commercialisation officer.
Georgia Tech has hired Raghupathy Sivakumar, the Wayne J. Holman chair professor at its School of Electrical and Engineering, to serve as its inaugural chief commercialisation officer on an interim basis.
Sivakumar will be tasked with supervising tech transfer activities from across Georgia Tech, including spinout generation, in a bid to expand its impact.
He will spend his interim tenure evaluating ways to streamline and connect up existing commercialisation processes.
Sivakumar was appointed to his academic role at Georgia Tech in 2000 and has since helped found two cloud technology spinouts from the institution, both of which were acquired: Asankya and StarMobile.
He also spearheaded the inception of an entrepreneurship program called Create-X that has supported the formation of 230 student-founded businesses.
Before joining Georgia Tech, Sivakumar was a research assistant at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1997 until 2000, where his specialisms included multi-hop wireless networks, wireless transport protocols and programmable networks.
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