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Ross Young is the co-founder and CEO of DSCC, a Counterpoint Research company. Previously, he started, ran and sold DisplaySearch which he started with less than $500 in capital and grew to over $10M in revenues. He has also worked throughout the display supply chain including at a TV brand, panel supplier, multiple equipment suppliers and a materials supplier.
Shortly after completing graduate school at UCSD and Japan’s Tohoku University in International Management, Young published a book on the semiconductor industry called Silicon Sumo: US-Japan Competition and Industrial Policy in the Semiconductor Equipment Industry published by the University of Texas.
Young also completed 12 IRONMAN triathlons including the World Championships in Kona in 2016.
You can also find him on Twitter at @DSCCRoss where he shares the future of the display industry with over 41K followers.
Longjia Wu received his Bachelor degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Wuhan University of Technology (WUT), and then got his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering from University of California, Davis (UC Davis) in 2015. After graduation, he joined TCL Corporate Research, engaging in the development of high performance quantum-dot light-emitting diodes for display application.
Dr. Reza Chaji is the CEO and co-founder of VueReal Inc., a Waterloo (ON, Canada) based company focused on revolutionary technologies for enhancing electronic systems (displays, sensors, AI, Autonomy, medical, health, automotive, etc.) by integrating millions of micro-optoelectronic devices into system substrates scalably, affordably, and rapidly. He has extensive experience in the development and commercialization of advanced technologies. His work for enhancing OLED TVs' yield, quality, and reliability is adopted in today’s OLED TVs. He received his Ph.D. degree (2008) in Electrical Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada, where he worked on designing and implementing large-area electronic systems for AMOLED displays, biomedical imagers, and bio-array sensors. He has over 70 published papers and one book in the field of display and sensor, over 200 filed/granted patent applications, and has received several prestigious scholarships and awards, including the EY nominee for the entrepreneur of the year 2023, Young Alumni Achievement Medal, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, 2012; CMC Douglas R. Colton Medal for Research Excellence 2009; and Strategic Microelectronics Council of ITAC Industrial Collaboration Award 2007. He was a finalist for the 2023- Entrepreneur of the Year award by EY. Under his leadership, VueReal Inc. was awarded the 2023- Top 50 Companies to Watch by Deloitte Canada’s Technology Fast 50 program.
Rong-Jun Xie obtained his PhD in Inorganic Non-metallic Materials at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academic of Science in 1998. After carrying out post-doctoral work at National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS, Japan), National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST, Japan), and Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) research fellow at Darmstadt University of Technology (Germany), Xie joined National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) as a Senior Researcher in 2003, and was promoted to Principal Researcher in 2007 and to Chief Research in 2017. In 2018, he moved to Xiamen University as a full professor at College of Materials.
Xie’s research interests include (i) phosphors for lighting and displays; (ii) mechanoluminescent materials for sensing technologies; (iii) near-infrared phosphors for security; and (iv) quantum dots and emissive displays. He has contributed to over 230 published papers and over 60 invited talks, and held 45 patents.
Dr. Cohen joined the lighting division of General Electric after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 2000. He has developed a variety of experiences through roles of increasing responsibility in Technology, Manufacturing, and Business Operations that include phosphors and specialty materials development, lighting product design and manufacturing, tungsten wire processing, and commercial sales of phosphors and specialty materials. Dr. Cohen has significant operational experience built on various key roles over nine years in manufacturing including Plant Manager of GE Lighting’s Phosphor and Specialty Chemical Facility. He led GE Lighting’s technical efforts to mitigate rare earth supply and inflation pressures through phosphor innovation, lighting product redesign, and production process optimization for fluorescent lighting products.
Transitioning from traditional lighting materials to LED materials, Dr. Cohen led GE Lighting’s PFS/KSF Red Phosphor innovation, process/manufacturing development, and sales/commercialization activities. After GE’s sale of its commercial lighting business to American Industrial Partners in 2019, he continues as the business leader of the specialty Chemicals and Materials group of Current Lighting Solutions, LLC focused on technical innovation and profitable commercial growth of phosphors and other specialty materials.
After obtaining her Masters in Nanomaterials cum-laude from Utrecht University (Utrecht, the Netherlands) in 2011, Dr. Van de Haar joined the group of Prof. Albert Polman at the physics research institute AMOLF (Amsterdam, the Netherlands), from where she obtained her PhD in Nanophotonics in 2016. She then moved to Seaborough as Project Manager and Materials Scientist, where she worked on developing new luminescent material systems for LED applications. Currently she is responsible for the Materials Group at Seaborough as Program Director Materials
Dr. René T. Wegh is Principal Scientist and topic leader in the field of solid-state light sources at Signify, formerly Philips Lighting. In that role he is overviewing the field and driving innovations on SSL sources. He has a 15-year track record on development of spectral engineering innovations at Philips Lighting/Signify, ranging from various remote-phosphor platforms in the early days to high-CRI and Human Centric Lighting spectral solutions in recent years. He holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Utrecht University on the topic of luminescence spectroscopy of lanthanide-based phosphor materials. He joined Philips in 1999, starting at the corporate Research lab where he worked on various topics, before moving to Philips Lighting in 2006.
Dr. Igor Nakonechnyi earned his PhD equivalent degree in solid-state chemistry from Chernivtsi National University in Ukraine in 2013. Transitioning from bulk semiconductors to colloidal quantum dots (QDs), he began his postdoctoral research at Ghent University in 2014. His research has since concentrated on advancing the application of QDs, addressing their stability, and developing large-scale production processes.In 2017, Igor played a pivotal role in founding QustomDot, officially launching the company in 2020. At QustomDot, he oversees product development strategy, secures government funding, coordinates projects with partners, establishes an agile R&D framework, recruits technical talent, manages intellectual property rights, and serves on the board of directors.
Peter Palomaki is the owner and chief scientist at Palomaki Consulting, LLC, where he consults with companies around the world on understanding, characterizing, and implementing QD and other nanomaterial technologies. He holds a PhD in chemistry from Rensselaer and has developed QD enabled optical technologies at National Renewable Energy Laboratory along with multiple companies, including QD Vision. He has become a trusted speaker, writer, and QD industry veteran on whom clients rely for his problem-solving capabilities and deep network in the display industry.
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Hunter McDaniel, PhD is UbiQD’s Founder and CEO. He transitioned from a postdoc position at Los Alamos National Laboratory to the company’s first full-time employee in 2014. His vision for the company is to become the worldwide leader in quantum dot manufacturing by enabling new products that aren’t possible with toxic CdSe or InP QDs. He has extensive relevant technical experience as he has worked on both traditional II-VI QDs (including those that contain cadmium) and I-III-VI QDs. During his career, Dr. McDaniel conducted research at top-tier research institutions; Los Alamos National Laboratory (postdoc 2011-2014), Argonne National Laboratory (2011), University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (PhD 2006-2011), and University of California at Santa Barbara (BS 2001-2006)). He is highly experienced in the materials science of semiconductor nanocrystals and their optoelectronic device applications (e.g., solar cells, LEDs) with over twenty research publications and more than 700 citations.
Pawel E. Malinowski received his M.Sc.Eng. degree from the Lodz University of Technology, Poland, in 2006, and his Ph.D. from the KU Leuven, Belgium in 2011. Pawel has worked at imec since 2005 where he is currently Program Manager “Pixel Innovations” and he focuses on disruptive optical sensor technologies, including new types of image sensors enabled by thin-film semiconductor integration. Pawel has coauthored more than 40 publications and submitted 5 patent applications. He was a recipient of the International Display Workshops Best Paper Award in 2014 and the SID Display Week Distinguished Paper Award in 2018. Pawel is Member of IEEE and SID, and served on the ODI Committee of the 64th and 65th IEDM conferences.
