Ryan Watson
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Watson is General Counsel and Executive Director of Intellectual Property and Licensing with 11 years of experience at the intersection of technology, law, and commercialization. He leads WVU’s IP strategy and licensing practice, advising university leadership and negotiating complex patents, equity, and commercial agreements while co-heading the Office of Innovation and Commercialization. A registered patent attorney with prior energy-sector engineering and project-management experience at NETL, he blends technical fluency in areas like GNSS and state estimation with practical legal counsel on industry-sponsored research and tech transfer. Known for building efficient processes and pragmatic, flexible deal structures, he has managed multi-million-dollar solicitations and guided commercialization through both university and private-sector lenses. Currently serving as General Counsel at Mission Critical Materials, he brings a rare mix of engineering rigor and transactional legal expertise to drive technology transfer and corporate governance.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law, Juris Doctor (J.D.), Law at West Virginia University
Github Skills (17)
ppp10
isam10
gps10
graph10
gtsam10
covariance10
factor10
localization9
science7
julia7
hpc6
machine-learning6
programming-language6
numerical3
julialang3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wvu-navLab/RobustGNSS
Aug 2017 - Oct 2019
Robust GNSS Processing With Factor Graphs
Contributions:19 commits, 13 pushes, 2 comments in 2 years 2 months
factorgraphsgraphgnssfactor-graphs
wvu-navLab/PPP-BayesTree
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Code release for "Evaluation of Precise Point Positioning Convergence with an Incremental Graph Optimizer".
Contributions:27 commits, 16 pushes, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
graphgnssprecise-point-positioningfactor-graphisam
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