Vivek Wadhwa is a distinguished fellow and adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University Engineering at Silicon Valley, a distinguished fellow at Singularity University and an adjunct professor in engineering and entrepreneurship at Duke University.
Wadhwa is a former fellow at Stanford University's Rock Center for Corporate Governance, and former writer for Bloomberg BusinessWeek and the Washington Post.
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