Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization ambassadors
September 15, 2017
The Office of Intellectual Property and Commercialization has developed an innovation ambassador program at UAF to foster innovation and creativity.
Our ambassadors are innovators themselves. They have been selected to represent their
UAF departments to encourage and foster students, staff and researchers to develop
their research into marketable products.
If you see either of our ambassadors at an event around campus, take the opportunity to introduce yourself and learn more. They are looking for UAF's brightest minds with the next ideas that will help shape our world.
The 2017-2018 ambassadors are:
Rajive Ganguli is a professor of mining engineering and the director of UAF's Mineral Industry Research
Laboratory. Ganguli was admitted to the Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame in 2017 for
his work on a dynamic mill simulator that is intended to train mill operators at a
mine site.
Through his private consulting and university research, Ganguli has developed software
products for systems engineering and process optimization applications for mining
companies in Alaska and elsewhere. He holds a patent for an algorithm for physical
segregation of coal. Ganguli is a strong believer that even research conducted in
academic environments can have practical applications.
Contact Rajive Ganguli at rganguli@alaska.edu.
Peter Webley is an associate research professor of remote sensing at the Geophysical Institute.
He is a sought-after expert on natural hazards events, is committed to supporting
and developing entrepreneurs and innovators at UAF, UA, and across Alaska.
Webley was one of seven inductees to the Alaska Innovators Hall of Fame in 2017 for
his expertise and work in volcanic hazard mapping and assessment, developing UAF's
first start-up company from IP, V-ADAPT, Inc., and as a patent holder for a new method
of validating the accuracy of particle-cloud-forecasting transport and dispersion
models. He is excited to engage with faculty, staff, and students at UAF in developing
and commercializing their innovative research.
Contact Peter Webley at pwwebley@alaska.edu.