The Nature and Nurturing of Research: A Modern Synthesis - Dr. Jeff Tsao
Channel: Protocol Labs
Date: 2022-08-24

Bio: 
Jeff Tsao is currently a Senior Scientist at Sandia National Laboratories. His career has spanned research in a number of areas: laser microchemistry, semiconductor epitaxy, solid-state lighting, and, most recently, metaresearch—the science and engineering of research and research environments. The institutions he has been associated with are Stanford University (BS in math and MS in EE), Harvard University (PhD in Applied Physics), MIT-Lincoln Laboratory, the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore, E2O Communications, and Sandia National Laboratories. He is most recently co-author, with Venkatesh Narayanamurti, of The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions: The Nature and Nurture of Research (Harvard University Press, 2021).

Abstract: 
Research is complex, fragile, and easily misunderstood. Scientific advance doesn’t always precede, it often follows, engineering advance. Answering questions isn’t always the goal, finding questions often is. We don’t always seek to strengthen conventional wisdom, sometimes we seek to surprise it. What if we could rethink research so that its nurturing, through policy and management, harmonizes with its nature? In this talk, we give an overview of a such a rethinking, as outlined in a new book, “The Genesis of Technoscientific Revolutions: Rethinking the Nature and Nurture of Research.” 

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