Keith McAleer
SCET Chief Scientist and professor Ikhlaq Sidhu has been invited to speak at the Association of University Technology Managers (AUTM) Asia 2017 Conference, which will take place from April 23-27 at the Hong Kong Science Park. Dr. Sidhu will deliver a talk on the first day of the main conference titled “Entrepreneurship in Hong Kong,…
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The Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology led by Chief Scientist and IEOR professor Ikhlaq Sidhu has just been awarded a $2.2 million grant on behalf of the leading centers and programs that accelerate the innovation and entrepreneurship at the University of California, Berkeley. The new grant funds will help the Sutardja Center and its UC Berkeley partners…
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This past week the Sutardja Center of Entrepreneurship & Technology wrapped up its financial inclusion collider. Students from a range of disciplines worked on the financial inclusion motive that has been talked about at multiple points this semester; how do you get the 2bn unbanked population around the world to create bank accounts, and gain…
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Sutardja Center Chief Scientist Ikhlaq Sidhu was invited to keynote the national Growing Entrepreneurs Summit in New Zealand where he met with members of government and academia to discuss lessons learned at Berkeley on how to accelerate research-based innovation and how to teach entrepreneurship. As part of the sequence of workshop events, Prof. Sidhu also…
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Right now twenty-four million people suffer with asthma in the U.S. causing almost 2 million visits to the emergency room each year. What if asthma sufferers could use a simple test at home that could prevent dangerous and painful attacks and many of these ER visits? That is the idea behind Aeris, a hospital-grade spirometer…
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Starting in Spring 2017, Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu will offer a new special topics course named Data-X. The course supports the IEOR department’s focus in data-driven systems and analytics; and it covers the tools and skills that are being used to reinvent today’s applications and enterprises. Data-X: A Course on Data, Systems and Signals is a technical course…
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Sutardja Center Chief Scientist and Founding Director Prof. Ikhlaq Sidhu has joined the Board of Trustees for Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU) in Qatar. Located in Education City, Qatar, HBKU is a member of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and delivers primarily graduate programs through its College of Science and Engineering,…
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At $6 trillion, the global food retail market is one of the world’s largest industries — but one that has not yet been substantially disrupted by online marketplaces, which have otherwise effectively changed the way many people buy books, clothes, electronics, and almost anything else. In an age where durable goods may soon be delivered…
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Tired of being left out of the picture when snapping a photo of a loved one? Don’t want to wield an awkward selfie stick to get a pic with your friends? UC Berkeley alums Eddie Lee (Haas / SCET certificate ’11), Samuel Pullman (EECS ’12), and Jae Choi (Econ ’13) have created Podo, a new kind…
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Most of us have a love-hate relationship with the push notification (i.e. the little messages that pop up on our smart phone’s lock screen). It usually goes something like this: our phone vibrates or the LED blinks, which triggers us to check our phone to see what the latest message is. The best case might…
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