James (Jim) Chung

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James (Jim) Chung

Associate Vice President for Research Innovation & Entrepreneurship


Jim Chung is the Assoc. VP for Research, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at GW, and a principal investigator in the NSF I-Corps Hub: Mid-Atlantic Region. He was previously the Director of both the Mtech VentureAccelerator and Chesapeake Bay Seed Capital Fund at the University of Maryland. He started his private sector career as an early stage venture capital investor, and has done private equity and M&A for a public company.

Before becoming an investor, Jim was an academic researcher at MIT, Harvard, and the University of Tokyo (Fulbright Fellow). He was named in both 2015 and 2017 by Washingtonian Magazine as one of the Top 100 Tech Titans in DC and by HotTopics.ht as one of the Top 100 Entrepreneurship Professors worldwide in 2015. Jim received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Stanford University and was a Ph.D. candidate at MIT.