The College of Engineering and Computing and the Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine are two of the partners in a new “innovation ecosystem” at FIU that will “move research from fundamentals to industry,” says Naphtali Rishe, professor of computer science and director of the High Performance Database Research Center at FIU.
Rishe is the principal investigator of the NSF Center for Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST), the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC), and the Ecosystem to Pipeline Research – the new Accelerating Innovation Research (AIR) initiative, funded through the National Science Foundation Partnership for Innovation Program (NSF PFI), designed to develop academic innovation and then translate research into viable products for industry. “The NSF PFI: AIR research alliance projects are expected not only to result in new technologies, commercial realities, quality jobs, and start-up businesses, but they also will provide opportunities for students to be educated about innovation, entrepreneurship, and the technology translation process,” says the NSF AIR program director Karlene Hoo.
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