What is CoGI?
Why Convergence of Global Innovators?
The world of research and innovation is changing.
Powers are shifting and the future is uncertain.
Research has transitioned from a physical medium to the World Wide Web. The Internet has enabled innovators to share ideas with millions rather than an elite few. Innovations and research can now effect global change. New opportunities have arisen from the demise of traditional research forms.
These new opportunities in the world of innovation are real. New trends will profoundly reshape your role as an innovator, a technologist, or a researcher.
But new opportunities are worthless without leadership.
CoGI was built to embrace and foster the shifting paradigm of research methodology. As a collaborative platform, CoGI develops leaders ready to face a changing world of innovation. We aid in leveraging your innovations to your advantage by taking advantage of the research revolution.
What is CoGI?
CoGI is the brainchild of Dr. CK Lin. As a recent PhD recipient, Dr. CK noticed a lack of resources dedicated to fostering collaboration between researchers. This lack of collaborative resources led to Dr. CK’s development of CoGI.
CoGI is meant to spawn collaboration amongst innovators. Over the past three decades, research opportunities have become increasingly limited. This is due to a lack of government funding and declining attention from the private sector. However, such decreases in funding have resulted in an increased interest in collaborative, rather than solitary, research.
CoGI was created to embrace and foster this established change in research methodology. Companies such as IBM, Proctor and Gamble, Boeing, and others have all demonstrated that utilizing cyber infrastructures to innovate is a worthwhile endeavor. CoGI allows researchers to join forces and seek one another out via the convenience of the internet and a social networking platform, increasing real-life productivity and fostering original research connections.
We have also employed a conference series to bring innovators together across oceans, borders and disciplines to discuss the challenges facing the world today. Our engagements thus far with Taiwan, Singapore, and British Columbia have all yielded extraordinary results and we look forward to adding other destinations across the world to our growing list.
Taiwan was particularly successful by a number of measurements. We were able to meet with three of the region’s industry leaders and advance the potential for generating funding for our researchers at UCSB. In addition, we signed a Memorandum of Understanding with National Taiwan University that guarantees a steady flow of their most talented graduate students to our campus. We effectively showcased our researchers and their recent accomplishments to the academic, industrial, and student communities in Taiwan. After returning, we created a promotional video on our trip that has been posted on the Internet as well as shown to 300 conference attendees in the United States.
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Who is Dr. CK?
CK received a BS in bioengineering cum laude University of Illinois, where he was awarded with the President’s Award and Student Leader of the Year and a PhD with distinction from UCLA, where he was a Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow.
His role as Acting Director of International Research Advancement at University of California, Santa Barbara is to streamline researcher’s innovation and collaboration processes. Connecting researchers with international members of the innovation community allows UCSB’s researchers to maximize their impact on the scientific, economic and global communities.
