Vlad works with professors and companies to match interests for the purpose of collaborative research and commercialization projects with a focus on Engineering, Computer Science, Math, and Environment. Vlad’s portfolio includes Data Science, Aviation and Defense, Insurance and Banks, transportation and geo informatics
Ashley joined the University of Waterloo Research Partnerships team in 2023 with several years of experience in facilitating collaborative research partnerships between industrial, not-for-profit and government partners with academic researchers across the country. She has a broad knowledge base working in all industrial sectors and academic disciplines key to the innovation economy from the arts to aerospace. Ashely values building research relationships between academic experts and industrial partners to develop impactful solutions to real-world challenges.
Dr. Justin Nankivell is the Director of Research Security at the University of Waterloo, Canada. The central objectives of this post involve creating a safeguarding research program that can navigate research risk, protecting researchers and institutes, developing risk-mitigation processes and strengthening commercialization, IP and international efforts in Waterloo’s key STEM areas and a range of innovation institutions.
From 2008-2018, Dr. Nankivell was a professor of International Law and International Security, and later associate dean of Academics, at the Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, under the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy, in the U.S. He specialized in East Asian security governance, international law, and foreign policy. From 2018-2022, he worked as a senior executive in the Government of Canada, under Public Safety Canada, handling a range of national security files related to the Indo-Asia Pacific.