Vivek Wadhwa is a Fellow at Arthur & Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; Director of Research at the Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization at the Pratt School of Engineering, Duke University; and Distinguished Fellow at Singularity University. He has been also a senior research associate at the Labor and Worklife Program of Harvard Law School, a visiting scholar at the School of Information at UC-Berkeley, and a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning at Emory University. He is author of The Immigrant Exodus: Why America Is Losing the Global Race to Capture Entrepreneurial Talent—which was named by The Economist as a Book of the Year of 2012, and Innovating Women: The Changing Face of Technology.
The research he oversees at Singularity University educates a select group of leaders about the exponentially advancing technologies that are soon going to change our world; such as, robotics, A.I., computing, synthetic biology, 3D printing, medicine, and nanomaterials.
Forbes.com named Wadhwa a Leader of Tomorrow. He was named by Foreign Policy Magazine as Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2012. In 2013, TIME Magazine listed him as one of The 40 Most Influential Minds in Tech.