Ilya Avdeev

Dr. Ilya Avdeev is the Director of the Lubar Entrepreneurship Center at UWM. He leads campus-wide efforts of expanding learning opportunities for students around innovation and entrepreneurship. Dr. Avdeev co-directs and serves as the PI for NSF I-Corps Affiliated program at UWM. He is a Co-founder of the UWM Startup Challenge, founding director of the Advanced Manufacturing Design Laboratory, and is a faculty advisor of the UWM Prototyping Club and University Innovation Fellows program. Dr. Avdeev teaches engineering- and human-centered design at UWM and he is a regular adjunct instructor at the Stanford University's d.school Teaching & Learning Studio. Dr. Avdeev received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.