Andrea P. Belz is an American innovation engineer, academic and author. She is a Professor of Practice in Industrial and Systems Engineering and the Vice Dean of Transformative Initiatives in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC).[1][2]
Andrea P. Belz | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation(s) | Innovation engineer, academic and author |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BS in Physics MBA in Finance PhD in Experimental Nuclear Physics |
| Alma mater | University of Maryland, College Park California Institute of Technology Pepperdine University |
| Thesis | [10.7907/t0dm-y753 Investigations of novel effects in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering] (2000) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of Southern California California Institute of Technology |
Belz is most known for her work on deep technology development and commercialization, public-private partnerships,[3] and management of internal research and development programs.[4] Her work integrates economics and systems engineering with the development of novel tools. She authored a book titled The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Product Development. She was a Director of Caltech laser spinoff manufacturer, Ondax until its acquisition by Coherent.[5][6]
Belz is the current President-Elect of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society (TEMS).[7][8]
Education
editBelz completed her BS degree in Political Science/Economics at the University of Maryland at College Park.[9] She earned a PhD in experimental nuclear physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and her dissertation was titled "Investigations of novel effects in semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering".[10] Later, she earned an MBA in Finance from Pepperdine University Graziadio School of Business.[11]
Career
editEarly in her career Belz did postdoctoral research in geobiomicrobiology and biogeochemistry at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Caltech Geological and Planetary Science Division, studying microbial metal cycling as a model for life detection for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). For ten years she was a consulting systems engineer in the Mission Systems Concepts Division of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).[12]
Belz created and led Innovation Node-Los Angeles, a regional hub for the National Science Foundation (NSF) I-Corps program from 2014 until 2019.[13] She then went to NSF to lead the Industrial Innovation and Partnerships (IIP) Division and served on the leadership team that launched the new Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) Directorate, where she oversaw NSF's principal applied research programs, including the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR), Small Business Technology Transfer Research (STTR), I-Corps, Partnerships for Innovation (PFI), and Industry-University Cooperative Research Centers (IUCRC) programs.[14]
Belz joined the University of Southern California in 2012, where she has had appointments in the Marshall School of Business, the Iovine and Young Academy (where she was on the founding faculty) and the Viterbi School of Engineering. She has also served as a Visiting Professor at Caltech. She was the inaugural Vice Dean of Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Viterbi School of Engineering. Following her service at NSF, she returned to USC and now serves as the first Vice Dean of Transformative Initiatives in the Viterbi School of Engineering.[1]
Belz founded the Management of Innovation, Entrepreneurial Research, and Venture Analysis (MINERVA) lab[15] at USC as a partnership between the Viterbi School of Engineering and Price School of Public Policy. Her work focuses on the intersection of government funding and the private sector in supporting entrepreneurship. Her project SBIR: Commercializing Invention and Financing Innovation (SCIFI) is an analysis of the NASA proposal database. She is the architect of Patentopia, an interface for the United States Patent and Trademark Office PatentsView database.[16][17] She has studied the impact of gender in innovation.
Books
editThe McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course: Product Development (2010) ISBN 978-0071743877
References
edit- ^ a b "USC - Viterbi School of Engineering - Viterbi Faculty Directory". viterbi.usc.edu.
- ^ "Andrea Belz to lead NSF Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships". National Science Foundation. 21 February 2019. Archived from the original on 15 September 2023.
- ^ "Financing Cascades: Sequencing Public and Private Funding in University Spinoffs | Request PDF".
- ^ Belz, Andrea; Zapatero, Fernando; Terrile, Richard; Kawas, Michael; Giga, Aleksandar (17 April 2018). "Mapping the 'Valley of Death': Managing Selection and Technology Advancement in NASA's Small Business Innovation Research Program". IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management. 68 (5): 1476–1485. doi:10.1109/TEM.2019.2904441. S2CID 197445304. SSRN 3221328.
- ^ "Ondax Names Belz To Board". socaltech.com. 4 January 2011. Archived from the original on 5 March 2011.
- ^ "Coherent, Inc. Acquires Ondax". optics.org.
- ^ "IEEE TEMS Executive Leadership Team". IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society. Archived from the original on 14 March 2023.
- ^ "Andrea Belz". IEEE. Archived from the original on 2023-09-15. Retrieved 2023-04-20.
- ^ "NSF Speakers Series: Andrea Belz | Illinois Institute of Technology". www.iit.edu. 6 April 2022.
- ^ Dvoredsky, Andrea Paulina (2000). Investigation of novel effects in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering (Thesis). California Institute of Technology. doi:10.7907/t0dm-y753.
- ^ "NSF Speakers Series: Andrea Belz | Illinois Institute of Technology". www.iit.edu. 6 April 2022. Retrieved 2023-05-05.
- ^ "For her, rocket science is just the start". Los Angeles Times. May 11, 2014.
- ^ "USC, UCLA, Caltech get joint grant to fuel tech start-ups in L.A." Los Angeles Times. August 26, 2014.
- ^ "Andrea Belz to lead NSF Division of Industrial Innovation and Partnerships". www.nsf.gov.
- ^ "Patentopia – Management of INnovation, Entrepreneurial Research, and Venture Analysis (MINERVA)". sites.usc.edu.
- ^ Belz, Andrea; Graddy-Reed, Alexandra; Shweta, Fnu; Giga, Aleksandar; Murali, Shivesh Meenakshi (2022). "Patentopia: A multi-stage patent extraction platform with disambiguation for certain semantic challenges". 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data). Osaka, Japan. pp. 3478–3485. doi:10.1109/BigData55660.2022.10020918. ISBN 978-1-6654-8045-1. S2CID 256313635.
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