Fulton Entrepreneurial Professors The Fulton Entrepreneurial Professors Program supports the translational efforts of faculty, particularly as it relates to technology and product commercialization and the formation of new companies. The first class of Fulton Entrepreneurial Professors, each with a two year appointment, was announced in 2012.
Gail-Joon Ahn School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering The exponential market growth and the urgency of mobile security desperately demand the proactive technology transfer and broader collaboration with business partners including the Phoenix community. This professorship enables Ahn to collaborate with GFS Technology, Inc., an ASU spinout company, and tackle timely issues in mobile platforms in an effort to make a significant impact on local and state economic development as well as digital society. The entrepreneurial experience is also disseminated to students via regular lectures. With the FY13 support, Ahn will secure office space at ASU Skysong and support a postdoctoral research scientist who will oversee doctoral and graduate students under Ahn’s supervision and pursue entrepreneurial
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activities including drafting a business plan and developing prototypes.
Lawrence Clark School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Clark is on leave from ASU working as chief architect at SuVolta, Inc., a Silicon Valley startup that develops and licenses CMOS-based semiconductor technologies that significantly reduce the power consumption of integrated circuits (ICs). SuVolta has developed a proprietary platform (PowerShrink™ technology) that addresses the primary cause of excess power consumption by minimizing the electrical variation of the millions of transistors on a chip. At SuVolta, Clark’s efforts focus on ensuring that the device performance and specifications are in line with customer needs, and on
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the development of circuit design methodologies and design ICs that best leverage the DDC device improvements. Clark brings professional expertise through his extensive research in lowpower design at ASU.
Yong-Hang Zhang School of Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering Over the past five years, Zhang and his research group have developed approximately 25 inventions in the areas of solar cells, photodetectors, and light-emitting devices and systems. The underlying breakthroughs have application toward several market segments including terrestrial defense, space, law enforcement and aviation safety, and commercial digital cameras. This professorship will enable Zhang to establish Zipton
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Labs, a research and development platform to bridge university research and technology commercialization of these inventions. Funding will partially support a postdoctoral researcher to further research under Zhang’s guidance. Zhang already incorporates entrepreneurial lessons in his teaching and will continue his efforts to help show how engineers can start a company and bring an idea to the marketplace. Ultimately, Zipton Labs could have an economic benefit through royalties to ASU and Fulton Engineering, job creation and additional federal funding.
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