Bio

#FollowYourCalling, and you will experience life beyond your imagination 💥 Make #PeaceLoveStartups ✌️❤️💡 Best Wishes in Entrepreneur-land! 👏 Award winning PhD entrepreneurship professor w/silicon valley startup/IPO experience 2nd career academic - left Entrepreneur-Land to join the SMU Cox Caruth Institute for Entrepreneurship in 2004. Research Interests: Ideation, strategic thinking, business modelling, corporate entrepreneurship, tech commercialization, blockchain, esports, and space entrepreneurship. Some recognition that I've been #blessed with: -Nominee, Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber Visionaries of Innovation Award -SMU Cox Teaching Innovation Award -Nominee, Startup Evangelist of the Year Award by Dallas Start-up Week -Global Educator of the Year by the Dallas Global Chamber of Commerce -SMU Rotunda Outstanding Professor Award -SMU Distinguished University Citizen Award Recent Presentations/Papers: Jan '21, Panelist on Commercializing Research, 2021 USASBE Conference Jan '20, Prison Entrepreneurship Program: What Is It and How To Get Students Involved?; Blockchain, Bitcoin And ICOs: Understanding and Teaching These Concepts In The Classroom; Esports Entrepreneurship: What Is It and How to Teach Students?, 2020 Annual USASBE Conference, NOLA Oct '19, How to Launch a Blockchain Entrepreneurship Program: A Case Study from the SMU Cox Entrepreneurship Center, 2019 GCEC Annual Conference in Stockholm Mar '19, working paper co-author ''To Blockchain or Not to Blockchain'' Jan '19, ''Teaching Blockchain Business Models'' Annual USABE Conference, St Pete, FL Oct '18, ''Funding Your Center with an ICO...A Wild Idea...Or Is It?'' Annual GCEC Conference, Chicago, IL Oct '18, ''Blockchain Business Models'', Future of Blockchain Conference, Frisco TX Aug '18, ''Blockchain and Industrial Revolution 4.0'', Chinese Institute of Engineers Technical Symposium, Dallas, TX Appointments -SMU Entrepreneurship and Innovative Advisory Board -SMU Incubator Advisory Council -Tower Center for Political Studies -Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity Faculty Advisor -Intervarsity Christian Fellowship -Esports Club -Blockchain Club -Chess Club Community Service -Prison Entrepreneurship Program (PEP) -Dallas Mayor's Task Force on Innovation and Entrepreneurship