Bringing Innovation to Life...
The University of Texas at Arlington's Innovation & Commercialization is responsible for the protection, marketing and licensing of campus created inventions and intellectual property.
I&C is here to assist in evaluating the patentability of research, protecting academic priorities, interests and values, commercializing and licensing technologies and establishing startup companies.
Meet the I&C Team:
Sharon Ngwenya
Assistant Director
Courtney Torres
Special Programs Coordinator
Jo Ramos
Licensing Associate
Teri Schultz
Director
China Lewis
Administrative Assistant
Justin Sierchio received BS and PhD degrees in Optical Sciences from the University of Arizona in 2006 and 2014, respectively. He then worked as a postdoctoral research associate in biomedical imaging at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2015-2016 before relocating to the Washington, DC area. In the nation’s capital, Justin served in several federal intellectual property and technology transfer roles with the US Patent and Trademark Office, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and Department of Defense, in addition to serving as a consultant with Physics Department at Georgetown University. He joined the I&C team in June 2019 and is thrilled to be part of the UTA community. In their spare time, Justin and his wife Stephanie enjoy sightseeing, movies, and are huge Indycar fans.
Justin Sierchio
Licensing Associate
Hi, my name is Akhil. I hold a bachelor’s degree in Information Technology and currently I’m pursuing my master’s in Computer Science, major in Artificial Intelligence and Database Systems at UTA. I work for the Innovation and Commercialization as a Graduate Research Assistant.
Akhil Rajender
Graduate Research Assistant
Sampada Samaka
Graduate Research Assistant
Minil Swarnkar
Graduate Research Assistant
Nirmil Waykole
Graduate Research Assistant
Mission & Vision
To serve our internal and external clients through education and collaboration, acting as a bridge to industry to make UTA technologies and innovations available to humankind.
To be known as a facilitatior of commercialization and entrepreneurship and externally as a standard among Technlogy Transfer Offices.