{"653575":{"#nid":"653575","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sivakumar Named as NAI Fellow","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERaghupathy \u0026ldquo;Siva\u0026rdquo; Sivakumar is among the 164 renowned academic inventors named as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESivakumar holds the Wayne J. Holman Chair in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). In September 2021, he was named as Georgia Tech\u0026rsquo;s first vice president of Commercialization and chief commercialization officer.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESivakumar is being recognized for having demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development, and welfare of society. A member of the ECE faculty since 2000, he is a co-inventor on 22 issued patents, and he has several more patent applications in process. Fifteen of these patents have been licensed to industry.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESivakumar is the founder\/founding member of three different venture-funded startups that all relied upon technologies built in his lab. Between 2015-2021, he spearheaded the CREATE-X initiative on campus that has helped to launch over 300 ventures, all founded by Georgia Tech students.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe 2021 Fellows class hails from 116 research universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes worldwide, and they collectively hold over 4,800 issued U.S patents. This newest class of NAI Fellows will be inducted at the Fellows Induction Ceremony at the 11th Annual Meeting of the National Academy of Inventors, which will be held on June 15, 2022 in Phoenix, Arizona.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the new class of Fellows are 33 members of the National Academies\u0026nbsp;of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and three Nobel Laureates, as well as other honors and distinctions. Their collective body of research and entrepreneurship covers a broad range of scientific disciplines involved with technology transfer of their inventions for the benefit of society.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERaghupathy \u0026ldquo;Siva\u0026rdquo; Sivakumar is among the 164 renowned academic inventors named as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Raghupathy \u201cSiva\u201d Sivakumar is among the 164 renowned academic inventors named as Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).\u00a0"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2021-12-09 19:50:54","changed_gmt":"2021-12-09 19:52:47","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2021-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2021-12-09T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"650352":{"id":"650352","type":"image","title":"Siva","body":null,"created":"1630509089","gmt_created":"2021-09-01 15:11:29","changed":"1630509089","gmt_changed":"2021-09-01 15:11:29","alt":"","file":{"fid":"246819","name":"Siva-Tie-No-Jacket-Landscape.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Siva-Tie-No-Jacket-Landscape.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Siva-Tie-No-Jacket-Landscape.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":602767,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Siva-Tie-No-Jacket-Landscape.jpg?itok=fVPsz6cJ"}}},"media_ids":["650352"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu\/faculty-staff-directory\/raghupathy-sivakumar","title":"Raghupathy Sivakumar"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"https:\/\/create-x.gatech.edu","title":"CREATE-X"},{"url":"https:\/\/www.research.gatech.edu\/engage-with-georgia-tech\/commercialization-tech-transfer","title":"Commercialization and Tech Transfer"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech"},{"url":"https:\/\/academyofinventors.org","title":"National Academy of Inventors"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"131","name":"Economic Development and Policy"},{"id":"132","name":"Institute Leadership"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"20191","name":"Raghupathy Sivakumar"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"id":"87401","name":"National Academy of Inventors"},{"id":"2579","name":"commercialization"},{"id":"137161","name":"CREATE-X"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"},{"id":"39451","name":"Electronics and Nanotechnology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}