Professional Experience - Academic / Industrial
07/2019 – Present Technology Advisory Board Member – Lucidity Lights, Inc.
To provide the company guidance with respect to its corporate, research and product development and marketing activities; to assist the company in the development and sale of commercial lighting products.
2007 – Present Technical Advisory Penal Member – Strategies in Light
To provide technical advices for topics, paper reviews, and speaker invitations for Strategies in Light Conference.
01/2010 – 12/2018 Industry Advisory Board Member – Lighting Enabled System & Applications (LESA, formally Smart Lighting) Engineering Research Center (ERC)
The ERC was created in 2008 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Funded by the National Science Foundation and the State of New York, RPI works with core partners, Boston University and the University of New Mexico to investigate and develop light-emitting diode (LED) technologies that will one day change the way we illuminate our world. The ERC is a superb example of how academia, federal and state governments, and industry can work together to advance the state of science and engineering while creating new opportunities for students, faculty, and businesses.
03/2003 – Present Instructor – Professional Seminars, SAE Continuing Education Programs.
Taught three college credited short courses both publicly and customer in-house:
SAE Seminar C0202, “Automotive Lighting I – Design & Technology”: Lighting fundamentals, design principles and new technologies, 2-days course.
SAE Seminar C0618, “Automotive Lighting II – Testing & Requirement”: Automotive lighting definitions, terminologies, testing, and requirements, 1-day course.
SAE Seminar C0727, “Automotive Lighting III – LED Application”: LED basics, LED measurements and standardization, LED automotive exterior and interior lighting design strategies and concepts, 1-day course.
01/2009 – 2012 Instructor – Short Course, SPIE – Society of International Optical Engineers.
Teaching college credited short course SC958 “LED & Solid-State Lighting Standardization and Metrology”.
05/2011 – Present Instructor – Workshop, Strategies in Light
Teaching workshop “LED & LED Lighting Standards and Methods of Measurements”.
05/2010 – Present Instructor – Short Course and Workshop, Light Fair International
Teaching college credited short courses “LED & Solid-State Lighting Standardization” and “Methods of Measurements for LEDs”.
09/1992 – 06/1997, Southfield, MI Faculty (Adjunct) – Department of Physics and Department of Electrical Engineering, Lawrence Technological University.
Taught undergraduate courses: non-calculus based and calculus based college physics including instructing laboratory experiments; taught undergraduate course: optical engineering.
09/1990 – 06/1992, Anderson, IN Faculty (Adjunct) – Department of Physics, Purdue University Anderson Campus.
Taught undergraduate courses: Physical Sciences including instructing laboratory experiments.
01/1985 – 09/1989, Evanston, IL & Troy, NY Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant – Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL; Department of Physics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Assisted undergraduate courses in physics and electrical engineering, instructed laboratory courses, conducted problem solving sessions, graded homework and exams.
07/1983 – 12/1984, Beijing, China Assistant Professor – Department of Applied Physics, Beijing Institute of Posts and Telecommunications.
Taught undergraduate courses: physical optics, modern optics including laboratory experiments.