Innovation Hub

The Innovation Hub at Christopher Newport University serves as the gateway for industry and research institutions to collaborate with our faculty and students. We welcome partnerships for applied research projects that advance your interests while enriching our academic community. Please reach out to us with ideas to forge impactful partnerships and ignite scientific innovation.

The Innovation Hub is receiving funding from a National Science Foundation EPIIC grant (award 2331430) from 2023 to 2026.

Vision

We aspire to create a seamless exchange of knowledge, enrich career opportunities, and pave the way for innovative research and development by involving faculty and students in projects with industry and other research institutions.

For Industry and Other Institutions

We want to leverage our faculty expertise with your industry skills to foster research through use-inspired research project collaborations. We have particular faculty expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science. Contact us with your ideas to explore possibilities for collaboration with our faculty in these or any related areas. There is no cost for industry partners to participate in our current pilot research collaborations.

Our faculty have expertise in the following areas:

Applied Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Data Science
Data Mining
Database Design
Statistical Inference
Software Development
DevOps
Scientific Visualization
Robotic Controls and Systems
Unmanned Aerial Systems
Smart Grids
Web Services

Reach out to us for further information or to discuss potential collaborations.

For Our Faculty

We seek to expand the horizons of your research and help you establish collaborations with industry and other external institutions. If selected for our pilot partnership program, you will be provided with a stipend to support the exploration of a research project with an external partner. We are also facilitating finding stipend support for a student assistant for each pilot partnership. You can browse the list of external institutions below. Contact us if you want to explore possibilities with them...or others you know might be interested (we are always looking to expand our list of collaborating institutions).

For Our Students

Our research partnerships can provide you with opportunities to work with both CNU faculty and external research partners in industry and at research institutions.