Guvenc named Senior Member of National Academy of Inventors

Dr. Ismail Guvenc has been elected as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors for producing technologies that have brought real impact on society.

Dr. Ismail Guvenc, a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University, has been elected to the second class of Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

The second class is comprised of 51 accomplished academic inventors representing 37 research universities and governmental and non-profit research institutes worldwide. They are named inventors on over 1,100 issued U.S. patents.

Guvenc has been an Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Carolina State University since 2016 and is a multidisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of wireless communications and wireless networking. He has also joined Michael Escuti, a professor of electrical and computer engineering in being elected a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors. Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators with success in patents, licensing and commercialization and have produced technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. Senior Members also foster a spirit of innovation within their communities through enhancing an inventive atmosphere at their institutions, while educating and mentoring the next generation of inventors.

“NAI Senior Members are active faculty, scientists and administrators at NAI member institutions with success in patents, licensing and commercialization,” the organization said. “They have produced technologies that have brought, or aspire to bring, real impact on the welfare of society. Senior members also foster a spirit of innovation within their communities through enhancing an inventive atmosphere at their institutions, while educating and mentoring the next generation of inventors.”

The NAI is a member organization comprising U.S. and international universities, and governmental and non-profit research institutes, with over 4,000 individual inventors members, Senior Members and Fellows spanning more than 250 institutions worldwide. It was founded in 2010 at the University of South Florida.