2016 Conference Acknowledgements

Yacov Shamash
Vice President for Economic Development
Stony Brook University

Dr. Shamash is the Vice President for Economic Development at Stony Brook University. Dr. Shamash supervises the University’s four incubators, three New York State Centers for Advanced Technology (Medical Biotechnology, Sensor Systems and Integrated Electric Energy Systems); two New York State Centers of Excellence (Wireless and Information Technology (CEWIT), and the Advanced Energy Research and Technology Center (AERTC)); the Small Business Development Center; and the workforce development programs of the Center for Emerging Technologies. In 1995, Dr. Shamash led SUNY’s colleges of engineering to create the statewide Strategic Partnership for Industrial Resurgence (SPIR) program. Stony Brook’s cumulative results include more than 3,100 projects completed with more than 490 companies, helping company partners win more than $105.9 million in competitive federal awards.

During the period from 1992 to 2015 Dr. Shamash served as Dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Brook University. Under his leadership, the College expanded from 1500 to over 5000 students with average SAT scores of entering undergraduate students increasing from 1150 to 1343, and external research expenditures increasing six fold to $30 million per year.

Prior to joining Stony Brook University in 1992, Dr. Shamash served as the Director of the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University and was the founding Director of the National Science Foundation Industry/ University Center for the Design of Analog/Digital Integrated Circuits.
Dr. Shamash is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Keytronic Corporation and Applied DNA Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Long Island Software & Technology Network (LISTnet) and the Long Island Angel Network. Dr. Shamash has also held faculty positions at Florida Atlantic University, the University of Pennsylvania and Tel Aviv University. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Imperial College of Science and Technology in London, England. He has authored more than 130 publications and is a Fellow of the IEEE.