Scientific Advisory Board

Jeff is currently a Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, and Chief Scientist of its Energy Frontier Research Center for Solid-State-Lighting Science. His work involves integrated science, technology and economic modeling in Solid-State Lighting and other areas. He is also exploring embedded-network models of the evolution of social knowledge – an emerging approach to the field of “evolutionary epistemology.”

During 2000-2001 Jeff served as vice-president of R&D at E2O Communications, Inc., a U.S.-based pre-IPO fiber communications components company. During 1993-2000, he served as manager of various technical groups at Sandia National Laboratories in the area of compound semiconductor materials and devices. In 1998, he took a sabbatical at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore, where he developed and gave a comprehensive series of twelve lectures on compound semiconductor epitaxy.

Jeff has authored or co-authored over 100 publications, holds 9 U.S. patents, and is author of a 1993 research monograph “Materials Fundamentals of Molecular Beam Epitaxy,” for which he won Martin Marietta’s 1994 Author of the Year and Jefferson Cup awards. He co-authored an influential 1999 white paper outlining the potential of Solid-State Lighting, and edited the comprehensive 2002 U.S. Solid-State Lighting Roadmap. He has helped the Office of Basic Energy Science coordinate two recent workshops and reports: one in 2005 on “Basic Research Needs in Solar Energy Utilization,” and another in 2006 on “Basic Research Needs in Solid-State Lighting.”

Jeff has been active in various professional societies, including the Materials Research Society, for which he has co-chaired two symposia, was general co-chair of the Spring 1995 meeting, served for several years on the program committee, and during 1998-2000 coordinated the graduate student awards. He was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1996, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2008.

Dr Casper is the Camille Dan Family Research Chair in Translational Cell Biology and a Senior Investigator in the Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital. Dr Casper is also Professor of the Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Toronto, with cross appointments in the Departments of Physiology, Medicine (Division of Endocrinology), The Institute of Medical Sciences, and in the Postgraduate Department of the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Casper received his MD at the University of Western Ontario in 1973 and his Fellowship in Obstetrics and Gynecology from the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada in 1977. In 1978, he was awarded a Medical Research Council of Canada Fellowship for training in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility at the University of California in San Diego with Dr Sam Yen, and was certified as a diplomate of the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Reproductive Endocrinology in 1982.

As Vice-President of Research and Development at MC10, Dr. Dowling is responsible for driving MC10's high-performance stretchable electronics into products and applications. He leads the engineering team in a number of programs, as well as the IP portfolio. Previously, he was Vice President of Strategic Technologies for Philips Color Kinetics. Dr. Dowling joined CK in April of 1999 as Director of Engineering, leading a team through the design and development of many of the companyÕs most innovative and successful lighting and control products.

Prior to Color Kinetics, Dr. Dowling was Chief Robotics Engineer for PRI Automation, the leader in advanced factory automation systems and software for the semiconductor industry. Dr. Dowling has more than 20 years of experience in advanced robotics engineering at the Field Robotics Center of Carnegie Mellon University, where his projects included mobile robot systems for NASA.

Dr. Dowling has over 60 issued US Patents. Dr. Dowling received his BS in Mathematics, and MS and PhD degrees in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University.

Jung Han is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. He holds a BS degree in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University. His PhD and postdoctoral research focus on the blue-green laser diodes by MBE. Before joining Yale University in 2001, he was a principal member of technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories (Albuquerque, New Mexico) where he studied the growth and fabrication of ultraviolet (UV) light emitting diodes.

His current activities includes semiconductor research for energy-efficient solid state lighting and general illumination. Epitaxy and synthesis of low-dimensional nanostructures including quantum dots, quantum wells, and nanowires for enhanced emission properties. Understanding and control of crystal growth processes at the atomic level. Thermodynamic and kinetic issues during chemical vapor deposition. Nanoscopic optical phenomena including random lasing, superradiance, and superfluorescence for high performance stimulated and spontaneous emission. The use of nanostructures in highly-sensitive chemical and biological sensing.

His received an R&D 100 award (2004) and an MRS Ribbon award (2005) and is a senior member of IEEE. He has served as reviewers and panelists for agencies including National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and Department of Defense. He has authored and coauthored more than one hundred fifty papers in peer-reviewed journals and holds six US patents.

Dr. Mohsen Kavehrad, is the W. L. Weiss Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University (formerly; Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute) in 1977. Between 1978 and 1981, he worked for Fairchild Industries (Space Communications Division) and GTE (Satellite Corp. and Labs.). He then joined Bell Laboratories where he worked on communications and networking research problems. After divestiture of Bell Systems, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering at University of Ottawa, as a Full Professor in March 1989. He was also the Director of Photonic Networks and Systems Thrust and a project leader in the Communications and Information Technology Ontario (CITO) and the Director of Ottawa-Carleton Communications Center for Research (OCCCR). He was an academic visitor (senior technical consultant) at NTT Laboratories, Japan, in summer 1991. He spent a six months sabbatical term as an academic visitor (senior technical consultant) at NORTEL, Ottawa, in 1996. In January 1997, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University as the W. L. Weiss (AMERITECH) Endowed Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering. In August 1997 he was appointed as the founding Director of Center for Information and Communications Technology Research (CICTR). During 1997-1998 he was also the CTO and a Vice President at Tele-Beam Inc., State College, PA. He spent a six months sabbatical term as an academic visitor (senior technical consultant) at AT&T Shannon Research Labs., Florham Park, New Jersey, in 2004. He has also served as a consultant to a score of major corporations and government agencies.

Stephen Selkowitz manages a building science R&D program encompassing Windows and Daylighting, Lighting Systems, Simulation R&D, Commercial Building Performance, Demand Response Research and High Tech Buildings. Selkowitz has over 30 years of experience in building energy performance and sustainable design, with an emphasis on RD&D of energy efficient technologies, systems and design practices. Projects range from basic materials research for glazing and daylighting, development of energy simulation tools for integrated building design and operations, and from near term demonstrations of emerging technologies to research for "net zero energy" buildings. The program balances R&D with an aggressive technology transfer effort so that research results are effectively adopted by the building industry. Selkowitz is a frequent invited speaker on building energy efficiency, and author of over 170 publications and holds 2 patents.

Dr. Veitch is a Senior Research Officer in the National Research Council of Canada Institute for Research in Construction, where she leads research into lighting effects on health and behaviour. She is best known for her research on lighting quality, which has influenced lighting design recommendations in North America through the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America Lighting Handbook (IES) and the IES design guide Light + Design: A Guide to Designing Quality Lighting for People and Buildings. She is a Fellow of the Canadian Psychological Association, the American Psychological Association, and the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. She is active on committees in the lighting and psychology communities, in Canada and abroad. Among her current research activities, she is co-project manager for the NRC-IRC project "Solid State Lighting in the Office of the Future".