W. Joseph King '93 is a managing director of Trinity River Capital Ventures, where he advises new companies on corporate strategy and financing.  He is currently serving as an advisor to Human Emulation Robotics, a humanoid robotics company.  Dr. King is also working to develop a new research institute, focused on the convergence of creativity, emotion and technology.

Prior to joining Trinity River, he was a founder of Zama Networks and Indaba Communications.  Together with their investor, Mitsui & Co., NTT DoCoMo, Asahi, and Sony, these companies developed next generation, high quality-of-service communication systems and networks.  Dr. King also served as chief scientist of F5 Networks (Nasdaq: FFIV), during its research and development stages.

Dr. King is an adjunct professor and entrepreneur in residence in the Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University.  He is an affliate research professor at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory of the University of Washington.  He is a fellow at the Advanced Telecommunication Research Institute in Kyoto, Japan, where he served as a visiting scientist in 1994.  He also has conducted research at Hughes Research Laboratories and GTE Tele-communications Research.  Dr. King has served as a consultant to Siemens, Hughes Electronics, Microsoft, Interval Research, Walt Disney Imagineering and Atari Games.

In addition to his academic pursuits, Dr. King is currently completing two books: Toward the Human-Computer Dyad and Notes of a Serial Entrepreneur.  He also is collaborating with the Whidbey Institute on a new program called Apes in Space, a study of ethics and morality in the technologically polarized world of the 21st century.

In 2000, Dr. King established the King Creativity Fund Endowment at Southwestern University, which annually supports "innovative and visionary projects" of enrolled students. The fund supports up to 20 projects in any given academic year with each grant award ranging up to $1,500.  Creative projects can be carried out on Southwestern¹s campus or at another institution or laboratory. Projects from all disciplines are eligible, and multidisciplinary projects are especially encouraged. 

Dr. King is a member of the Southwestern University's Board of Trustees.  He also serves as vice chairman of the board of Fossil Rim Wildlife Center, a non-profit endangered wildlife conservation and education facility.  Dr. King also is a member of  the development committee of the Benaroya Research Institute, an organization dedicated to discovering the causes and cures of autoimmune and genetic diseases.

Dr. King holds a Ph.D. in human-computer interaction from the University of Washington (Seattle, Wash.).  He holds a B.A. with honors in computer science and a B.A. with honors in experimental psychology from Southwestern University.