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We Pursue the Breakthrough

Catalytic thinking leads to life-changing impact.

Welcome to the FedEx Institute of Technology at the University of Memphis. We combine and optimize university, corporate and community resources to propel consequential research and high-impact innovation, the kind of work that ultimately produces new technologies, patentable intellectual property, and even exciting new commercial enterprises committed to making the future a better place. 

 

Where Hard Questions Become Hard Science

How can we use personal mobile sensors to improve global health? What new paths in artificial intelligence can lead us to better ways of learning? How can additive manufacturing improve national security? These and many other questions lead our researchers in their quests for something new, better and far-reaching. In short, we pursue the breakthrough.

The FedEx Institute of Technology supports unique interdisciplinary Research Clusters made up of faculty members from across campus and around the world who are dedicated to advancing the science of what’s next. Our researchers are focused on both the most pressing issues facing us today and the most exciting possibilities and opportunities that lie ahead. 

Discover more about the Research we support and the impact it is making around the world.

 

Where Collaboration Becomes Innovation

Some experiments work well in a vacuum, but people rarely do. That’s why we create dynamic collaborative opportunities for business, research, education and innovation. Our UMRF Research Park has become a center for creative empowerment. The company we spun out, UMRF Ventures, provides a talent pipeline resource for companies, employment opportunities for students and, ultimately, a qualified pipeline of graduates for employers. And, our FRONTIERS initiative creates an avenue for corporate leaders to use our premier research resources and students to explore big ideas, overcome obstacles and create and bring impactful, sustainable technological solutions.

Learn more about how we drive Innovation.

 

Where Engagement Becomes Empowerment

The FedEx Institute of Technology brings experts from around the world together for lightning talks, hackathons, webinars and a wide variety of emerging tech training programs for business and industry. 

See how our Outreach is making the world a smarter place.

 

Where New Technologies Become Breakthrough Products

The Office of Technology Transfer (OTT) within the FedEx Institute of Technology is charged with making the UofM’s technological achievements available to the private sector for the development of commercial products that improve how business is conducted, how customers are served, and how we all live. Partnering with Epicenter, the FedEx Institute of Technology has created a program designed to hire postdoc fellows to start businesses utilizing patented intellectual property, developed both in Memphis and across the United States, to turn great ideas into successful companies. Our Patents2Products program offers these post-doc entrepreneurs a two year funded position, patented intellectual property and all the tools necessary to launch successful start-ups. 

Learn more about the Office of Technology Transfer

 

 

A Tennessee Flagship Carnegie R1 Research Institution.

 

 
 
 
 

Featured Speakers / Events

  • FedEx Institute of Technology Technology Serving Humanity Series: Dr. Heng Xu - Responsible AI: The Interplay between Algorithms, Data, People and Policy
    Thursday, September 7 | 3 PM | FIT 103 (Methodist Presentation Theatre) | RSVP here.

 

 


Upcoming Events

Tuesday
Sept. 5
 

Memphis Azure User Group

Tuesday
Sept. 5
 

DRIVE Kick-Off Event

Tuesday
Sept. 5
 

Machine Learning/Data Sciences/R

Wednesday
Sept. 6
 

Embodied Cognition Seminar Series: Dr. Detlef H. Heck - Bodily Constraints on Perception

Wednesday
Sept. 6
 

DevMemphis - A Meetup for Memphis Software Developers

Thursday
Sept. 7
 

Technology Serving Humanity Series: Dr. Heng Xu - Responsible AI: The Interplay between Algorithms, Data, People and Policy

Tuesday
Sept. 12-14
 

FIT Emerging Tech Training: Organizational Change Management

Wednesday
Sept. 13
 

Embodied Cognition Seminar Series: Dr. Art Glenberg - Embodied Cognition in Education

Thursday
Sept. 14
  Memphis Data Pros / Power BI Monthly Meetup
Saturday
Sept. 16
  Memphis Game Developers Workshop
Monday
Sept. 18-21
 

FIT Emerging Tech Training: SAFe Program Consultant (SPC)

Monday
Sept. 18
 

Memphis Python (Virtual) - Data Deep Dive with Azure Data Explorer & KQL

Wednesday
Sept. 20
 

Embodied Cognition Seminar Series: Dr. Mark Johnson - Embodied Mind, Meaning, and Reason

Thursday
Sept. 21
 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Ben Carmichael

Thursday
Sept. 21
 

CoRS Kick-Off Event

Friday
Sept. 22
 

UX/UI Bytes

Friday
Sept. 22
 

AI Grant Collaborative Meeting

Tuesday
Sept. 26-28
  FedEx Institute of Technology Tech Training: Microsoft Power BI Training
Tuesday
Sept. 26
 

University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture & University of Memphis Virtual Symposium

Wednesday
Sept. 27
 

Embodied Cognition Seminar Series: Dr. David Kirsh - Epistemic Actions

Thursday
September 28
 

Distinguished Speaker Series: Dr. Kevin Berisso

Thursday
September 28
  Memphis .NET and Azure Developers Group

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