Venkat Viswanathan
Technical Advisor
Venkat is an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan and serial entrepreneur, having co-founded Aionics Inc (AI-driven materials design), Chement (zero-carbon cement process) and And Battery Aero (aviation batteries).
He is recipient of MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 and Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship, a rare combination, with the former award for entrepreneurial excellence and latter being for academic and theoretical excellence.
He has graduated 20 PhD students and 10 postdoctoral scholars, 6 of whom have been founders. His academic research record is stellar with a h-index of 65, and total citations of over 16,000, and is named inventor on over 50 patent applications.
