Vish Krishnan

Professor Vish Krishnan is the Jacobs Chaired Professor of Management and Engineering at UC San Diego. One of the Rady School’s founding faculty bringing deep start-up/business experience in California and Texas, Krishnan has developed unparalleled expertise in researching and teaching innovation, entrepreneurship, and product management. He has led Rady School’s signature core course series, Lab to Market, which gave Rady students the opportunity to gain hands-on experience in entrepreneurship by developing their own businesses. He has also served in a leadership role for the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur, a joint venture between the Rady School and the Jacobs School of Engineering. In his research, Krishnan works on improving the effectiveness and efficiency of R&D, operations and ventures, and collaborates closely with the School of Medicine through grants from the National Institute of Health and the State of California. He has been a founding member of start-up teams and is an advisor to a number of startup teams and major international companies. Krishnan received his doctoral degree from MIT and serves in the editorial positions of elite academic journals in the areas of innovation, entrepreneurship, and product/operations management. He has been named the Most Valuable Professor by Rady Students four times during the last decade and has been invited to teach at MIT and Harvard University.

For more information see QI story “QI Offers Services to Support Teams in New UC San Diego Technology Accelerator” and Krishnan’s profile on the UC San Diego Rady School of Management website.