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Lance Collins is the inaugural vice president and executive director of the 花季传媒 Tech Innovation Campus, which was announced by the university as part of the state鈥檚 successful effort to attract Amazon鈥檚 HQ2 to Northern 花季传媒. In this role, he provides strategic direction for the Innovation Campus (see the campus Strategic Plan), helping to build a campus that will impart a lasting influence on the region鈥檚 tech ecosystem.

Collins joined 花季传媒 Tech in August 2020 from Cornell University where he served as the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering for 10 years. He was also part of the leadership team that successfully bid to partner with New York City to build Cornell Tech, which opened its Roosevelt Island campus in 2017. As the engineering dean at Cornell, Collins accelerated efforts to diversify the college鈥檚 faculty and student body, increasing the proportion of underrepresented minority students from 8 to 19 percent and undergraduate women from 33 to 50 percent.

Collins serves on the board of trustees of the MITRE Corporation, the Northern 花季传媒 Chamber of Commerce, the Society for Science, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers Foundation. He is a member of the board of directors of the 花季传媒 Tech Applied Research Corporation and is a member of the Economic Club of Washington, DC.聽 He has served on numerous academic advisory boards and visiting committees, including for the University of Michigan, Purdue University, Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard University, among others.

Collins is professor of mechanical engineering at 花季传媒 Tech.聽 His research is focused on the application of direct numerical simulation to a broad range of turbulent processes. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. In 2021 he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering.