The Faculty of Business invites members of the campus community – students, faculty and staff – to attend a virtual lecture (teaching demonstration) by Yuxi (Lucy) Zhao for a tenure-track position at the assistant professor level with a focus on entrepreneurship.

Candidate Bio:

Yuxi Zhao is an educator, scholar, and practitioner in the field of entrepreneurship. With a PhD from the Ohio State University, she is currently an assistant professor at Bob Gaglardi School of Business and Economics, Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia. She conducted entrepreneurship research funded by the US National Science Foundation, US Department of Agriculture Foundational and Applied Science Program, US Department of Agriculture Federal-State Market Improvement Program, International Foundation for Science (PI), and Environmental Policy Initiative (PI). Yuxi is also a serial entrepreneur who worked as an entrepreneur-in-residence for the Quebec-based AI incubator TandemLaunch Inc. She helped form a new energy extension initiative for the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which raised US$6 million in seed funding. She also helped HaiLa Technology, which was featured on Forbes, and raised CA$12.8 million in seed funding. Her own start-up was adopted as a case study by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gies College of Business. She was also a judge and mentor for the 24-hour global entrepreneurship competition of EIT Climate-KIC, a Europe-based climate innovation initiative.

The lecture will take place on Friday, February 25th  from 11am-12pm (Atlantic Time) via the following Zoom link:  

https://upei.zoom.us/j/68572016094?pwd=RGxrSjJQSG5qcndqR3ErQzFIUVYrUT09

Meeting ID: 685 7201 6094

Passcode: 510582

For further information, please contact Shelly Kavanagh at businessfac@upei.ca.