THE CENTER FOR RESEARCH INNOVATION
NAI NATIONAL Members
Fellows
The NAI Fellows Program was established to highlight academic inventors who have demonstrated a prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on quality of life, economic development and the welfare of society. Election to NAI Fellow status is the highest professional distinction accorded solely to academic inventors.
Senior Members
NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists, and administrators with success in patents, licensing, and commercialization and have produced technologies that have brought or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. They are rising stars who foster a spirit of innovation within their communities and institutions while educating and mentoring the next generation of inventors.
NAI INDUCTED FELLOWS
Kenneth Blank
Vice Provost for Research and Senior Advisor
Ahmed Busnaina
WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Affiliated Faculty
Yiannis Levendis
COE Distinguished Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Affiliated faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Luzzi
Senior Vice Provost for Research and Vice President of the Innovation Campus
Vince Harris
University Distinguished Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliated Faculty, Chemical Engineering
Leonard Polizzotto
Executive in Residence, D’Amore-McKim Business School
Stephen Director
Provost Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Srinivas Sridhar
Raymond Fu
Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Jointly Appointed, KCCS
NAI Fellows
Kenneth Blank
Vice Provost for Research and Senior Advisor
Ahmed Busnaina
WL Smith Chair and University Distinguished Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Affiliated Faculty
Yiannis Levendis
COE Distinguished Professor, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Affiliated faculty, Civil and Environmental Engineering
David Luzzi
Senior Vice Provost for Research and Vice President of the Innovation Campus
Vince Harris
University Distinguished Professor and William Lincoln Smith Chair Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Affiliated Faculty, Chemical Engineering
Leonard Polizzotto
Executive in Residence, D’Amore-McKim Business School
Stephen Director
Provost Emeritus, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Srinivas Sridhar
Raymond Fu
Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering & Jointly Appointed, KCCS
NAI INDUCTED SENIOR MEMEBERS
Srinivas Tadigadapa
Director of Nanomedicine Innovation Center and Nanomedicine Academy and Distinguished University Professor of Physics
NAI Senior Members
Srinivas Tadigadapa
Director of Nanomedicine Innovation Center and Nanomedicine Academy and Distinguished University Professor of Physics
Ken Blank, Ph.D.
Ken Blank is a demonstrated innovative and effective leader in building high impact, sustainable use-inspired research programs.. He has a proven ability to engage industry, mission oriented government agencies, and universities in productive collaboration. These key alliances increase funded research to support the development of new emerging technologies and contribute to successful technology commercialization, and workforce-related programs. Blank has held senior research leadership positions at nationally recognized research institutions successfully increasing metrics in research revenue and technology commercialization.. He serves on the Board of Directors of The University City Science Center (Philadelphia, PA) and the New Jersey Innovation Institute (Newark, NJ) and is a Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors and The College of Physicians of Philadelphia.