Vivek Wadha is Vice President of Academics and Innovation at Singularity University, Silicon Valley, Fellow at the Arthur and 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 visiting scholar, Halle Institute of Global Learning, Emory University. In 2012, the US government awarded him the distinguished recognition as an "Outstanding American by Choice" for his "commitment to this country and to the common civic values that unite us as Americans."