Karl Ruping is an Associate at Harvard’s Asia Center, focusing on technology policy development, academic innovation and intellectual propriety rights in the Asia-Pacific region. His particular area of interest is international patent protection of advances in computational sciences, including bioinformatics, molecular modelling and high-performance computing. Karl is also a member of the Asia Center's International Advisory Committee.
In addition to his research interests, Karl has broad industry experience across university technology management, intellectual property rights protection, and venture capital funding. He is an experienced U.S. attorney, member of the NY and MA bar associations, and a registered patent lawyer with a technical background in computational sciences. Karl is founder and managing partner at incTANK Ventures, a venture capital fund investing in early stage, university-sourced technology companies. He is a founder of several Harvard and MIT startups in the life sciences. Read more ->