University of Oklahoma

Ryan Phillips has been a University Innovation Fellow at the University of Oklahoma since March 2014. He is a Computer Science major with a minor in Mathematics. He brings in experience from 5 semesters of developing technologies at the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth (CCEW) in fields ranging from book publishing to patient data monitoring. During his semester as a team lead, he led 9 interdisciplinary students through a process of ideation, market validation, and software development to develop the beta version of SIREN, a weather analysis application that automates the analysis and notification of hazardous weather to the trucking industry using a proprietary algorithm developed with input from researchers at the National Weather Center. The company has raised $55,000 and is starting a beta test with 1,700 trucks soon. As an intern at Garmin during the summer of 2013, his work on bluetooth audio for their next-generation of in-dash navigation is included in all Suzuki, Jeep, Chrysler and Dodge cars produced after 2015. Ryan interned at Microsoft last summer, working on data analytics for Microsoft Office and Office365. As a UIF, Ryan has worked with leaders across the university to create plans for a 20,000 square foot Innovation Hub that aims to bring together students, faculty, and community into a centralized space.