Guests Information

Zizhao Gan	Prof. Zizhao Gan Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences Director of Semiconductor Research Center, Peking University
Lianghui Chen	Prof. Lianghui Chen Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering Professor of Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Zhanguo Wang	Prof. Zhanguo Wang Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences Professor of Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Jinmin Li	Prof. Jinmin Li Director of Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences Executive Chairman of China Solid State Lighting Alliance
Yubo Fan	Dr. Yubo Fan, General Manager of Xiamen Hualian Electronics Co., Ltd Executive Chairman of China Solid State Lighting Alliance
Biing-Jye Lee	Dr. Biing-Jye Lee is the president of Epistar Corporation, a world leading high brightness LED epiwafer and chip manufacturer, based in Hsinchu, Taiwan. He obtained a BS and a Ph. D degree in chemical engineering from National Tsing-Hua University in 1980 and 1985 respectively. Dr. Lee began his professional-career as a research scientist and a project leader at Industrial Technology Research Institute, where he and his co-workers have successfully developed the first 780 nm AlGaAs laser diode in Taiwan. From 1992 to 1994, he became the research manager of Optoelectronic modules department. Under his guidance, his group has successfully demonstrated the first AlGaInP based LD and LED in Taiwan. From 1994 to 1996, he was the director of Optoelectronic materials and device devision, responsible for the initiation of AlGaInP, InGaN and AlGaAs epiwafer production program. September 1996, he and his colleague founded Epistar Corporation. Dr. Lee has authored and co-authored over 40 technical publications. He also received more than 25 patents with 18 pending. He has been awarded by the Ministry of Economic Affair for his contribution in the area of optoelectronic devices.
Richard Sy	Mr. Richard Sy General Manager of Hongkong COTCO Holdings Ltd., China BS degree in Engineering from University of Hongkong MBA degree from Chinese University of Hongkong
E. Fred Schubert	E. Fred Schubert (Ph. D. 1986) is the Wellfleet Senior Constellation Professor of the Future Chip Constellation at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He has made pioneering contributions to the field of compound semiconductors in particular to alloy broadening, delta-doping, resonant-cavity light-emitting diodes, enhanced spontaneous emission in Er-doped Si/SiO2 microcavities, photonics crystals, elimination of heterojunction band discontinuities, p-type superlattice doping in AlGaN, polarization-enhanced ohmic contacts, and omnidirectional reflectors. He is co-inventor of 28 US patents and co-authored more than 250 publications. He authored Doping in III-V Semiconductors (1992), Delta Doping of Semiconductors (1996), and Light-Emitting Diodes (2006). He is a Fellow of the APS, IEEE, OSA, and SPIE and has received several awards.
Alfred Felder	Dr Alfred Felder is the VP Sales and Marketing in Asia of OSRAM Opto Semiconductors. Prior to that he was the General Manager of the business unit OLED of OSRAM Opto in San Jose, California. He has over 15 years semiconductor experience in various positions from R&D to Product Development and Marketing at Siemens and Infineon Technologies.
Asif Khan	Asif Khan received his Ph.D. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, in 1979. From 1979-1985 he worked at Honeywell Corporate Research Center as a senior principal research scientist. He then joined 3M as a Technical Marketing Manager in the Optical Disc Development project where he worked from 1985-1987. In 1987 he moved to APA Optics to serve as the Vice President of Optoelectronics Products. There his research group did pioneering work in the development of GaN-AlGaN materials and electronic devices. In 1997 he accepted a position at the University of South Carolina as a Distinguished Professor and became the Founding Director of the USC Photonics and Microelectronics Lab. His USC research focus is on the fabrication of GaN-AlGaN based high power microwave transistors and deep ultraviolet light emitters. His cutting-edge LED research was recognized by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) and the Japan Applied Physics Society as one of the best for 2005. In 2001 he was appointed Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department where in 2003 he was awarded the Carolina Distinguished Professorship. He was honored with the presenting of the IEEE Fellow award in 2006. He has authored over 300 refereed papers, several book chapters, over 150 invited papers, and over 200 presentations.
George Craford	Dr. George Craford obtained a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Illinois in 1967. He began his professional career as a research physicist at Monsanto Chemical Company, and became Technical Director of the Electronics Division, before joining the Hewlett Packard Company in 1979. He is currently the Chief Technology Officer of Philips LumiLeds Lighting Company. His research has been mainly focused on the development of visible LED's using a variety of compound semiconductor materials. He developed nitrogen-doped GaAsP technology in the early 1970's, which became one of the dominant commercial LED technologies. At Hewlett Packard, Dr. Craford's group pioneered the development of AlInGaP LED's, and also developed AlGaAs and InGaN products. He is a fellow of the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has received technical achievement awards from a variety of organizations and received the 2002 National Medal of Technology from the President of the United States.
Nadarajah Narendran	Nadarajah Narendran, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the LRC's director of research. Dr. Narendran is well known throughout the lighting industry for his pioneering research and educational activities in the field of solid-state lighting. Dr. Narendran leads a team of researchers and educators in the area of solid-state lighting at the LRC and conducts research and educational programs to accelerate the development and market transformation of this promising technology. He teaches the Physics of Light course in the LRC's graduate education program. In addition, he has developed and taught courses in optics, LEDs, and fiber optic lighting. Dr. Narendran has authored or co-authored more than 50 articles in archival journals and proceedings and holds several patents. He is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America.
Christopher M. James	As Vice President - Marketing, Chris is responsible for the development of corporate brand and business strategies, as well as for execution of those strategies through proactive outbound marketing, business development, and customer service activities at the corporate level. He joined Cree in December 2004 as Marketing and Sales Manager for Cree Lighting. Prior to joining Cree, Chris served as vice president of Research Memberships and Publishing at the benchmarking firm Best Practices. Chris has also been vice president of marketing and business development for three high-tech start-ups, led Ernst & Young's High-Growth Consulting Supply Chain Practice, and held a number of management positions with the Components Group at Hewlett-Packard Company. Chris holds undergraduate degrees in electrical engineering and German studies, and a master's degree in business administration from Stanford University.
Hans Nikol	Hans Nikol studied chemistry in Regensburg, Germany and finished his Ph.D. in 1993. The following two years he spent as a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology. In 1995, he joined Philips Research and worked on luminescent materials for display and lighting applications, including LEDs and OLEDs. After several positions in Research, he joined Philips Lighting in 2004 to work on the development of solid state lighting applications. In his current position as innovation manager of the BU Solid State Lighting, he is responsible for SSL product development as well as long-term R&D within the division.
Ian Ferguson	Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Coordinator for the Focused Research Center Next Generation Lighting. Research focuses on the area of wide band-gap materials and devices (emitters, detectors and electronics) using GaN and ZnO and developing these materials for illumination and spintronic applications. I have over 160 refereed publications, four book chapters, two books and multiple patents. Founded the International Conference on Solid State Lighting.
Robert V. Steele	Robert V. Steele is the Director of Optoelectronics Programs at Strategies Unlimited, and is responsible for all of Strategies Unlimited' s activities in the area of optoelectronic components, for which the company has provided market research reports and consulting services for over 18 years. Strategies Unlimited is a 28-year old market research firm specializing in optoelectronic and electronic components based on compound semiconductors. Dr. Steele has authored or co-authored over 40 multiclient and single client reports on optoelectronics markets, technology and competition. Since 1994, he has supervised and co-authored seven editions of Strategies Unlimited��s periodic report on the visible LED market, as well as reports on solid-state lighting, gallium nitride technology and markets, and the supply side of the high-brightness LED industry. For the past eight years, he has also been the chair of Strategies Unlimited' s annual industry conference on high-brightness LEDs, known as Strategies in Light. Dr. Steele writes regularly for industry publications on high-brightness LED markets and applications, and gives invited presentations at major conferences around the world. As an internationally recognized expert in this subject, he has been interviewed and quoted by major publications, including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, and The Economist, among others. Dr. Steele received his B.S. in chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley.
Tsunemasa Taguchi	Tsunemasa Taguchi received his Ph. D in electrical engineering from Osaka University, Japan in 1974. After becoming a senior lecture at his alma mater, he went to Britain, where he spent 1981 and 1982 as a visiting research scientist at the physics division of Sussex University, Brighton, England. He became a full professor in the department of electrical and electronic engineering at Yamaguchi University, Japan in 1994. He was a project leader of MTEI/NEDO's "The Light for the 21st Century" project from 1998 to 2003, and is currently a project leader of MEXT's "White LED to medical application" project. He has concentrated on research into wide-gap semiconductor materials such as ZnS and GaN, seeking new applications in the form of short-wavelength light emitting devices and white LED lighting systems.
Young Moon Yu	Dr. Yu received both MS and Ph.D degrees in material Science and engineering from Korea University and then was a visiting professor of Institute of Material Research at Tohoku University at 1995. From 1984 to 2001, Dr. Yu has been working in the field of bulk crystal growth at Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology. Since 2001, Dr. Yu has been the Chief Manager of Optoelectronic devices group and now he is the Director of Division for LED and Solid State Lighting R&BD of Korea Photonics Technology Institute. Also he is in duty of Program Organizer of Korean National Programs for LED & Semiconductor Lighting. He is responsible to develop the technology level of Korean LED and Solid State Lighting Societies under the cooperation of Universities, Institutes and companies.

Conference General Secretary

Ling Wu

Graduated from Harbin Medical University, China, and became a lecturer of social medical department; then, take a M.S. degree in management of University of Calgary, Canada.

Since 1995, she is Chief Representative of Beijing (China) Office, Bridge Trust & Invest Group, (USA), and CEO of Techcn.com; General Manager of Beijing MKQ Consulting Co. Ltd.

Currently, She is director of National Advanced Materials Productivity Promotion Center; director of National Solid-State Lighting Program Office; General Secretary of China Solid-State Lighting Alliance(CSA), and organize the feasibility study of this project in "The Eleventh-Five Year Plan".

Conference Deputy Secretary

Jun Ruan

Mr. Jun Ruan

MBA, Tsinghua University, China

Deputy Secretary, China Solid State Lighting Alliance

Yansheng Guo

Mr. Yansheng Guo

MBA, University of Canberra, Australia

Director, Shanghai Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Semiconductor Lighting

Bingwen Liang

Dr. Bingwen Liang

President, Nanjing Handson Co., Ltd

PhD in Electronics Engineering, University of California, San Diego

HP/Agilent 1993-2000

CEO of AXT 2000-2003

Session Chairperson

Guoyi Zhang	Prof. Guoyi Zhang Vice Director, Semiconductors Research Center, Peking University
Kei May Lau	Professor Kei May Lau received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in 1976 and 1977 respectively, and the Ph.D. Degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas, in 1981. From 1980 to 1982, she was a Senior Engineer at M/A-COM Gallium Arsenide Products, Inc. In the fall of 1982, she joined the faculty of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst, where she became a full professor in 1993. She initiated metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD), compound semiconductor materials and devices programs at UMass. In the summer of 2000, she joined the faculty of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and established the Photonics Technology Center for R&D efforts in wide-gap semiconductor materials and devices. She is now a Chair Professor of Electronic and Computer Engineering at HKUST. Professor Lau is an IEEE Fellow. She served on the IEEE Electron Devices Society Administrative Committee and was an editor of the IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices (1996-2002).
Densen Cao	Densen Cao, PhD. President & CEO of the CAO Group, Inc. USA. Received his PhD and ME at University of Utah in 1991 and BS & MS degrees at Jilin University, China in 1983. Founded the CAO Group, Inc. in year 1997. Owning more than 70 US patents. The CAO Group, Inc. engages in business of medical, dental, forensic, opto components, signage, and solid state lighting.
Robert Walker	Dr. Robert Walker joined BridgeLux as CEO in July, 2005, and has served on its Board of Directors since August, 2004. He is also a Principal at YEBY Associates, a Silicon Valley-based consultancy specializing in the Solid State Lighting Industry. From 2001-2004 he served as Managing Director-US of Vincera Ventures, a US$150M venture capital fund based in Taiwan with several investments in the areas of HB LEDs and compound semiconductors. During his 8 years at EMCORE Corporation, a leading provider of MOCVD equipment to the HB LED industry, he held a variety of sales and marketing positions, including General Manager, Pacific Rim. Prior to joining the compound semiconductor industry, Dr. Walker spent 10 years conducting high energy physics research, including several years living in Japan. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Caltech in 1989 and a triple major in math, physics and computer engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1984. He has traveled extensively throughout the Pacific Rim region, and has been involved with the HB LED epitaxial industry in Taiwan, Korea and China since its inception.
Enboa Wu	As Vice President of ASTRI, Dr. Enboa Wu is responsible for technology development for LED, device materials, advanced packaging, fiber optical transceivers, and optical sensors. Dr. Wu has successful track records in building and leading large research teams to deliver to the industry with state-of-the-art technologies. In his post as the Deputy General Director of ERSO/ITRI, Taiwan, he was the founder of the Advanced Packaging Technology Center and managed the Flat Panel Display Technology Center. Leading these two largest technical teams in Taiwan, Dr. Wu had successfully helped build up Taiwan's now world No. 1 electronic packaging industry and TFT-LCD industry. Dr. Wu is an ASME Fellow. He received his PhD degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Wu had been a full professor at the National Taiwan University for 10 years. He published over 130 journal and conference papers, co-authored three books, and issued 12 patents.
Alan G. Li	Alan G. Li (PhD of LED Lighting) General Manager Semiconductor Division of FangDa Group Co., Ltd FangDa GuoKe Optronic Technical Co., Ltd ShenShen Walkover Semiconductor Lighting Co. Ltd
Guoqing Tang	Mr. Guoqing Tang General Secretary of Shanghai Optoelectronics Trade Association
Frank Ma	Mr. Frank Ma received his B.S. degree of physics from Tamkang University in Taipei, Taiwan and MS degree in Physics from Utah State University, USA. Mr. Frank Ma is CEO of Photonics Industry & Technology Development Association (PIDA) based in the center of Taipei city. He has been working for PIDA since 2001 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2007, a role after vice president. Prior to joining PIDA, Mr. Ma served in the high tech industry from 1992 to 2001. Before that, Mr. Ma worked for National Science Council as an optoelectronics industry researcher. Mr. Frank Ma has very extensive experience on strategic planning and corporate management. He is very knowledgeable both on photonics market trend and technology development.
Sun Zhuo	Dr. Sun Zhuo, the professor of East China Normal University, and director of Engineering Research Center for Nanophotonics & Advaced Instruments, MOE, China; the co-founder of a few nanotechnology companies (Nanocs, Nanoking, Sunlights). He was obtained Ph.D from Lanzhou University in 1995, then worked as a Research Fellow in Shanghai Jiaotong University (1995) and Nanyany Technological University (Singapore) (1996-2003), respectively. Dr. Sun's research interesting includes thin film/nanostructred materials processing and applications, vacuum/plasma systems, LED, FED, solar cells, etc. As a principal investigator, he has been responsible for a few key research projects on nanotechnology related to flat panel display, high efficiency light source, vacuum systems supported by Singapore and China. He has published over 180 articles in renowned international journals/conferences, and filed over 30 patents. Dr Sun is the Director of LED chapter, Shanghai Optoelectronics Association; and Deputy Director of Shanghai Solid State Lighting Research Center. He is a member of Society of Information Display (SID), the Excutive Chair of "Asia Display 2007", and has been awarded 2007 SID "Presidential Citation��. He currently is the Excutive Chair of IEEE "International Nanoelectronics Conference 2008��.
Liu Sheng	-Over 14 years experience in IC packaging, 8 years in MEMS packaging, and 4 years in optoelectronic/LED packaging, 22 years in reliability assessmentand testing, 18 years experience in USA -Extensive experience in consulting with HP, Lucent, Motorola (Freescale), Intel, Ford, Delphi (Delco), Toshiba, Sony, FairChild, National, AMD, Harris, etc. -Co-founder, Wuhan HanWangInc., 1998, acquired by HuagongTech., a public company, 1999 -White House/NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1995, ASME YoungEngineer Award in 1996, NSFC Young Scientist in 1999 in China -ChangJiangScholar (LI, KaShing) by Ministry of Education (MOE) of PRC -Associate Editors, IEEE Trans. On Electronic Packaging Manufacturing since 1999 -One of 5 National Committee Members in MEMS under Ministry of Science and Technology from 2002-2006 -One of 11 National Committee Members in LED under Ministry of Science and Technology from 2006-2011 -7 years experience in China in packaging and MEMS research and management -PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford, 1992, MS and BS in flight vehicle design, Nanjing U. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, three years industries in China and USA -Filed and owed 50 patents, 6 in English and 44 in Chinese; published more than 300 technical articles
Wang Gang	Dr. Wang Gang, was born in China, in 1968. He received the B.E. degree from Jilin University, China, in 1991, and the M.E. and Ph.D. degrees from Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan, in 1998 and 2001, respectively. From 2001 to 2004, he was with the Fujitsu Quantum Devices Limited, Japan, where he was an R&D engineer. In April 2004, he jointed the State Key Lab. of Optoelectronic Materials & Technologies, Sun Yat-Sen University, China, as a full professor, where his main focus is on high power white LED and its lighting application
Muqing Liu	Muqing Liu is the director of the Institute of Electrical Light Sources at Fudan University since May 2004 and a fulltime professor from 2002. He is a member of the scientific committee which runs a series of international symposium on science and technology of light sources and one of academic committees of Chinese national LED program. He joined in Fudan university in 1988 and led a number of projects , such as methodology of light sources and instrumentation. He graduated from department of optical engineering of Zhejiang University, China and has 12 Chinese patents. Currently his research interest is optics and photometry of LED's application and methodology and he is leading two projects from Chinese national LED program on the fields.
JianGen Pan	Professor JianGen Pan, government titled Professor Senior Engineer, is the CTO of EVERFINE, co-doctor-advisor of Key State Lab of Modern Optics of Zhejiang University and Professor of Zhejiang University of Technology. Prof. Pan is also the Vice Chairman of Metrology Committee of CIES, Member of SSL Expert Group of The National Hi-Tech Program of China, Technical Member of National Standardization Council of Lighting Industry of China, Vice Chairman of ZIES, Referee of of SPIE, and the Country Member of China for CIE D2 (The Division of Measurement of Light and Radiation). Prof. Pan established Everfine Test System Institute in 1993, and then EVERFINE Instrument Co., Ltd and EVERFINE PHOTO-E-INFO CO., LTD. Prof. Pan has engaged in the technology research and instrument designing of photometry, colorimetry, electronic and EMC measurement since the year of 1985. The instruments designed by him have been adopted in more than 40 developed countries. Prof. Pan was the head of two projects of The National 863 Hi-Tech Program and was twice awarded of the certification of The National Key New Product by the central government. He owns about 20 patents and let over 40 papers published. Hundreds of new products were developed under his leadership. Prof. Pan has many times been invited to give technical talks in international conferences.
Michael Heuken	Prof. Dr. Michael Heuken was born in Oberhausen, Germany on November 17, 1961. He received the Diplom?Ingenieur degree and the Dr.?Ing. degree in Electrical Engineering from Duisburg University in 1985 and 1989, respectively. He joined the Institut f��r Halbleitertechnik at RWTH Aachen as senior engineer and has been working in the field of metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy for electronic and optoelectronic devices. In 1994 he finished his Habilitation in semiconductor technology and devices with a thesis on MOCVD technology for optoelectronic devices. Since then and still at present he has been lecturer for semiconductor technology and devices as well as circuits for communication systems at RWTH. In 1997 he joined AIXTRON AG in Aachen-Germany where he is now Vice President Corporate Research & Development. In 1999 he was honored as Professor at RWTH Aachen. His main research interests are in the fields of Semiconductor growth by MOVPE, materials characterization, device technology, electronic and optoelectronic devices and circuits. Prof. Heuken is author and co-author of more than 300 publications in international journals and several invited papers at international conferences. He was President of DGKK (German Crystal Growth Association) from 2002 to 2005, is currently elected Executive Committee member of the IOCG (International Organization of Crystal Growth), member of VDE/ITG and board member of OptechNet e.V. He acts as referee for international Journals. He has been granted several patents in the field of CVD technology.
Wei Chen	Education: PhD, 1995, Chemistry, University of Minnesota- Twin Cities Work Experience: Sept. 1985-March 1989 Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Research Assistant, Dow Corning Corporation, Midland, MI R & D Engineer Intel Corporation, Chandler, AZ December, 2001-October, 2001 Sr. Process Engineer Process Engineering Dow Corning Corporation Manager, Application Engineering and Technical Services �C Greater China Electronics & Advanced Technologies Shanghai, China October, 2001 to present
Ray Letasi	Education: B.A. in Economics, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Professional Experience: MITSUI USA, Semiconductor Department (Toyoda Gosei InGaN LED Division): North American Sales Manager (05/97 �C 10/99) Color Kinetics Inc: Director of International Sales, Boston Headquarters (10/99 �C03/02) Director of International Sales-APAC and Japan, Hong Kong Representative Office (03/02 to 11/03) Vice President of International Sales, London Representative Office (11/03 to 03/06) Vice President of Asian Market-APAC and Japan (03/06 to Present)

Distinguished Guest

Shuji Nakamura

Shuji Nakamura was born on May 22, 1954 in Ehime, Japan. He obtained B.E., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokushima, Japan in 1977, 1979, and 1994, respectively. He joined Nichia Chemical Industries Ltd in 1979. In 1988, he spent a year at the University of Florida as a visiting research associate. In 1989 he started the research of blue LEDs using group-III nitride materials. He has received a number of awards, including: the Nishina Memorial Award (1996), MRS Medal Award (1997), IEEE Jack A. Morton Award, the British Rank Prize (1998) and Benjamin Franklin Medal Award (2002). He was elected as the member of the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) in 2003. Also, he received the Millennium Technology Prize in 2006. Since 2000, he is a professor of Materials Department of University of California Santa Barbara. He holds more than 100 patents and has published more than 200 papers in this field.

Jeff Y Tsao

Jeff Y Tsao is currently a Principle Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, where his work includes strategic planning in energy technologies, and mathematical modeling in the emerging area of evolutionary epistemology. He has authored or co-authored over 140 publications, including the research monograph "Materials Fundamentals of Molecular Beam Epitaxy."

Steven Denbaars

Dr. DenBaars is a Professor of Materials and Co-Director of the Solid-State Lighting Center at UC Santa Barbara. Professor DenBaars joined UCSB in 1991 and currently holds the Mitsubishi Chemical Chair in Solid State Lighting and Displays. From 1988-1991 Prof. DenBaars was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett- Packard's Optoelectronics Division involved in the growth and fabrication of visible LEDs. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California in 1988. Specific rese, ar, ch interests include growth of wide-band gap semiconductors (GaN based), and their application to Blue LEDs and lasers and energy efficient solid state lighting. This research has lead to over 400 scientific publications, the first US university demonstration of a Blue GaN laser diode and 17 patents on GaN growth and processing. He has been awarded a NSF Young Investigator award, Young Scientist Award of the ISCS, is an IEEE Fellow, and received the Distinguished Alumni Award in Academia from USC in 2007.