Vivek Wadhwa
Vivek Wadhwa is an Indian-American technology entrepreneur and academic.
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Career [edit]
At Credit Suisse First Boston, Wadhwa led the development of a computer-aided software engineering (CASE) tool to develop client-server model software. First Boston spent $150 million on these development efforts. The CASE technology was spun off by First Boston into Seer Technologies in 1990 with an investment of $20 million by IBM.[1] Seer Technologies filed for an IPO in May 1995.[2]
Wadhwa is Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University;[3] an executive-in-residence/adjunct professor at the Masters of Engineering Management Program[4] and Director of Research at the Center for Research Commercialization at Duke University's Pratt School of Engineering;[5] a fellow at Stanford University's Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance; and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Halle Institute for Global Learning, at Emory University.[6] He has been a Senior Research Associate at Harvard Law School's Labor and Worklife Program [7] and a visiting professor at the School of Information, at the University of California, Berkeley.[8] He writes a regular column for The Washington Post,[9] Bloomberg BusinessWeek,[10] the American Society of Engineering Education's Prism Magazine,[11][12][13][14] and Forbes, and has written for Foreign Policy[15] and TechCrunch.[16] He is also the author of the 2012 non-fiction book The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent.[17]
Awards and honors [edit]
In 1999, Wadhwa was named a "leader of tomorrow" by Forbes magazine.[18]
In February 2012, Wadhwa was one of the six "2012 Outstanding American by Choice" recipients, a distinction awarded by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services.[19]
In December 2012, Wadhwa was named to the list of Foreign Policy Magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers.[20]
References [edit]
- ^ Srikumar S. Rao, 11.13.00. "Cracking The Code". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Seer Technologies Files For Initial Public Offering. - Free Online Library". Thefreelibrary.com. 1995-05-09. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Singularity University | Management". Singularityu.org. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Project Team :: Global Engineering and Entrepreneurship @ Duke". Soc.duke.edu. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Vivek Wadhwa | Master of Engineering Management". Memp.pratt.duke.edu. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Vivek Wadhwa". Halleinstitute.emory.edu. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "LWP Staff: Vivek Wadhwa". Law.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Vivek Wadhwa | School of Information". Ischool.berkeley.edu. 2012-04-10. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Vivek Wadhwa". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Vivek Wadhwa". Businessweek. 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ Engineering Our Health, March 2012
- ^ "ASEE PRISM - SEPTEMBER 2011 - LEADING EDGE". Prism-magazine.org. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "ASEE PRISM - SUMMER 2006 - LAST WORD: The Real Numbers - By Vivek Wadhwa". Prism-magazine.org. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "ASEE PRISM - DECEMBER 2011 - LEADING EDGE". Prism-magazine.org. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Chinese and Indian Entrepreneurs Are Eating America's Lunch - By Vivek Wadhwa". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Vivek Wadhwa Posts on TechCrunch". Crunchbase.com. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "Preventing Silicon Valley's 'Immigrant Exodus'". NPR. October 5, 2012.
- ^ "The leaders of tomorrow". Forbes.com. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ "USCIS - 2012 Outstanding American by Choice Recipients". Uscis.gov. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ^ http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/26/the_fp_100_global_thinkers
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