Surya Raghu Ph.D.

Dr. Raghu’s expertise is in research commercialization – transitioning of ideas and inventions created at research labs into commercial products. He obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Yale University and is the founder-president of a high-tech company – Advanced Fluidics, LLC since 2001 and founding partner ET Cube International, Inc., since 2013. His earlier affiliations were with Yale University, Technical University of Berlin, SUNY Stony Brook, and Bowles Fluidics Corporation. Dr. Raghu has inventions related to aerospace, automotive, consumer, and biotechnology applications and has been awarded 15 US patents. He has been a co‐director and/or invited speaker of more than 35 workshops in >20 countries on Entrepreneurship, Research Commercialization, Knowledge/Technology Transfer for Scientists, Engineers, University faculty, technology transfer officials, and IP policy committees.

Dr. Raghu is Vice-Chair – Products on the 2021 IEEE Entrepreneurship Steering Committee.