Effectiveness of University Engagements Project Update

Event Type: Webinar
Location: Online

Date/Time

Alliances and Collaborations, IP Management

This session will serve as an update from the IRI PILOT project: Effectiveness of University Engagements. Within the broad topic of Effectiveness of University Engagements, they have narrowed their project focus to Intellectual Property (IP)-related issues, particularly: – IP Ownership – IP Commercialization – IP Risk Management. To get more granularity on these topics, they will solicit survey and interview responses from two categories: University representatives and Company representatives. They will present the survey questions for these three dimensions during the webinar. The survey questions from the three dimensions will lead to three independent research questions. These three research questions will lead to a synthesis of an overall research question. Finally, they will present the plan and timeline for executing the project.

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Saurabh Sircar

Sr. Project Manager, Airspace Operational Efficiency

Boeing Research & Technology

Sr. Project Manager Airspace Operational Efficiency Boeing Research & Technology

S. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
S. Computer Science, Pennsylvania State University
Certifications in Decision Making & Financial Management, Cornell University
Executive Certification in Venture Capital, UC Berkeley

Saurabh is currently working as a Program Manager for research projects with FAA in the area of airspace operations. He is also leading effort in technology development, evaluation and proposal writing, business case preparation and customer interactions with government and commercial customers. He is also responsible for contracted R&D strategy and has led as Principal Investigator in several contracted research projects. Prior to his current role, he was Project Manager in Advanced Services group developing synergy opportunities between commercial aviation services and government services. He utilizes his experience with technology sets that include collaborative information systems design including decision-support systems, quantitative techniques including statistical analyses and multivariate analyses, modeling and simulation technologies including discrete event systems and agent-based modeling, information storage, retrieval and knowledge management systems, performance metrics for operations including productivity and risk and systems engineering design and evaluation (quantitative and qualitative analyses).

Rhonda Crate

Adjunct Professor and Principal Data Scientist/Associate Technical Fellow

Washington State University and Boeing

Adjunct Professor, Washington State University and Principal Data Scientist/Associate Technical Fellow, Boeing

B.A., Anthropology; Eastern Washington University
M.A., Anthropology; Washington State University
M.S., Statistics; Washington State University

Rhonda has been a part of The Boeing Company since 2014 and is currently working as a senior data scientist supporting the Analytics and Information Management Services within the Information Technology and Data Analytics organization. In addition to her MA in cultural anthropology and MS in statistics from WSU, she has earned professional certificates in statistical programming with R and big data technologies from the University of Washington, and is currently working on a master’s certificate in geospatial intelligence from Penn State University. Rhonda teaches R programming classes through Boeing’s Ed Wells program and is a relations focal for the WSU College of Arts and Sciences within Boeing. She is currently teaching a class for WSU Global Campus, Data 424, which helps students learn to combine skills they’ve gained from the data analytics program into creating a solution for an Industry based analytics project. Prior to her work at Boeing, she worked at a small marketing company doing work for companies such as Microsoft, GCI Telecom, Treehouse, and Seattle Central Co-Op. Outside of work, Rhonda enjoys doing sewing craft projects, hiking, gardening, and organizing. She is married to fellow data scientist Andrey Zaikin, has an elementary school-age daughter named Elsie, and one fluffy Russian Siberian cat named Emma.