认识VPRI
穆罕默德Abousalem was appointed in June 2019 as 利记’s inaugural Vice President for
研究与创新 (VPRI) and the President of the Board of Directors of the
上海外国语大学研究基金.
In his role, Mohamed leads the planning, administration, and evaluation of university
research facilities, centers, institutes, and support services, as well as the allocation
of funding for research and innovation programs and activities. 他的团队负责
for identifying, securing, and maintaining extramural funding from governmental agencies,
private foundations, businesses, and industry, as well as for developing public-private
partnerships that foster innovation and grant collaborations.
The VPRI’s vision is to build and strengthen the 利记 administrative infrastructure
necessary to support our growing faculty-led research programs to provide the needed
experiential learning to all 利记 students. With increased resources, focused training,
and efficient support services for our researchers, 利记 will grow its public impact
through research, scholarship, and creative activities.
Mohamed serves as Chair of the California State University (CSU) Council of Chief Research Officers, where he is leading efforts to leverage the power of the 23 CSU campuses through
shared best practices and leveraged opportunities for faculty. 穆罕默德被任命
by the California Governor on the Board of Directors of the California Institute of
再生医学(这个) representing the CSU system, where he offers 这个 the full education and research
strengths of the CSU to forward their mandate to conduct stem cell research and deliver
cures to all the people with unmet medical needs. Mohamed is also a member of the
Knight Foundation Community Advisory Council, where he helps drive initiatives that
are important to the city of San José through programs that benefit the people who
live, work, visit, and study in it. Additionally, he serves on the Board of the Bay
Area 科学 and 创新 Consortium (基本), where he helps address key issues and opportunities affecting the technology-led
economic growth of the Bay Area.
In his previous role as Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research at the University of
California Santa Cruz, Mohamed was responsible for the management of the university’s
technology transfer, commercialization, and 创业的支持 programs. 在
一个 year of assuming his role, he developed the innovation and entrepreneurship strategy,
revamped the administrative framework for the tech transfer operation, doubled the
annual number of invention disclosures, and secured $2.200万的国家基金
创业的支持. Through successful community partnerships, he established
a biotech wet-lab incubator in Santa Cruz and a technology startup accelerator in
硅谷.
Mohamed’s technical and business management experience is far-reaching and includes
positions in academia as well as the non-profit and industry sectors. 加入之前
UC Santa Cruz, Mohamed was the founding chief executive officer of TECTERRA, a Canadian
not-for-profit organization supporting innovation and technology commercialization.
Under his leadership, TECTERRA invested over $37 million in supporting 200 startup
companies across 加拿大 and 25 applied research projects in Alberta, which generated
over $325 million in economic impact and prosperity for the entrepreneurs and companies
supported, the applied research institutions involved and the community. TECTERRA
continues to operate to this day as a flagship innovation support program with significant
以及日益增长的经济影响.
Prior to TECTERRA, Mohamed had several executive management roles in industry with
responsibilities including product development, corporate development, general management,
marketing communications, and human resources. In these roles, he developed and launched
major technology solutions, strategic alliance programs, and corporate strategies
for various worldwide market segments. Mohamed’s earlier research work in the development
and application of the global positioning system (GPS) technology was successfully
incorporated in the products and technologies of several companies in the USA and
加拿大.
穆罕默德的成绩是B.S. in civil engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt; an M.S.
和Ph值.D. in geomatics engineering from the University of Calgary, 加拿大; and an
MBA from Santa Clara University.
To schedule a meeting with Mohamed, visit his 虚拟办公时间 页面.
