The University of Wisconsin announced recently that it has hired Alan Yeung, an alumnus and former Foxconn executive, as a professor of practice for entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering.

“My goal is to develop best practices in innovation that will encourage and motivate inventors having technology ideas to explore the viability and feasibility of commercializing their technology,” Yeung said in a statement.

According to a release, he will help develop a roadmap to commercialize university research, provide supporting infrastructure, assist with securing funding to move the technology forward and identify teams to lead startup company formation.

Yeung has a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from UW-Madison, master’s and PhD degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of California. Yeung’s role begins today.