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VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, VIRGINIA TECH INNOVATION CAMPUS, ALEXANDRIA
Lance Collins
Lance Collins
VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, VIRGINIA TECH INNOVATION CAMPUS, ALEXANDRIA
Virginia Business// August 29, 2024//
Collins came to Virginia from Cornell University four years ago for a transformative purpose: to build Virginia Tech’s $1 billion Innovation Campus and aid the commonwealth’s efforts to close a regional tech talent gap.
The first academic building on the Alexandria campus is set to open in spring 2025 — pushed back from its planned opening in August — but computer science and engineering students already have been attending classes in temporary quarters since 2021.
In Collins’ four years with Virginia Tech, the number of its computer science and computer engineering master’s degree students based in the D.C., area has grown to nearly 400. Innovation Campus graduate students are part of Virginia’s Tech Talent Investment Program, which aims to graduate 31,000 computer science and engineering grads in the next two decades.
Collins, who has a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a master’s and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2021. He also is a board member at Mitre, a McLean-based not-for-profit research and development company.
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