Adi Abileah – Planar – USA

"Displays for military application"

Adi Abileah is chief scientist, Technology Group, Planar Systems, Beaverton, Oregon. His main activity is related to development of active matrix liquid crystal displays (AMLCD), physics and optics of the displays of several technologies, backlights and enhancement techniques. Adi has B.Sc. in physics from the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology) and M.Sc. in Plasma physics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. And a two years research work at the university on high power CO2 lasers. He developed soil mechanics density sensors at the Negev Institute. His first industry job was in medical imaging (Nuclear Medicine) at Elscint, Israel. He was the head of the electro-optics group at Elbit for several years, and then the manager of EL-OP north branch R&D center in Haifa, Israel. On 1987 he joined OIS - Optical Imaging Systems in Michigan where he became the manager of the optics group and responsible for all related topics in the development of AMLCDs. During this period he became expert in the optics of AMLCDs, testing techniques and liquid crystals physics. He served at OIS until the company closed at 1998 and then joined Planar. Adi has 33 US patents, mostly related to displays, backlights, 3D-stereo and in-cell optical sensors. He presented many technical papers at SID, SPIE, and OSA conferences, and gave several seminars at SID. In 2005 he received the Fellow Award of SID. In 2010 he got the SID Presidential Scitation Award. In 2012 he was awarded with the Otto Schade Prize for his many outstanding contributions to the enhancement of the functional performance of displays, including contrast, brightness, viewing angle, gray-scale resolution, and stereoscopic imaging. In 2007 he became the Director of the Pacific Northwest Chapter of SID. He co-chaired and was program chair of ADEAC conferences (2005/06). He was program chair of LatinDisplay/IDRC in 2010/2011 and he is the co-program chair in 2012. Adi is associate editor for JSID 3-D displays, and chairing the 3-D stereo subcommittee of ICDM standards. He just started to be the chair of the Applications subcommittee for the SID conferences and papers selection.

Birendra Bahadur – Rockwell Collins – USA – “Ruggedization of LCDs for military applications”

Birendra Bahadur is an internationally recognized researcher on LCDs and Liquid Crystals, with 85 papers and 4 books published to date. Dr. Bahadur received his BS (1967), MS (Physics, 1969)) and Ph.D. (Physics, 1976) degrees from Gorakhpur University, India. He had an exceptionally brilliant academic record winning numerous gold medals, awards and scholarships. He started his research on Liquid Crystals and LCDs in 1969 for his Ph.D. thesis and, since then, has remained in the field of electronic displays. He has contributed very significantly to the development of the basic science and mass scale manufacturing technology of many types of LCDs, including dynamic scattering, dichroic, TN, STN, PDLC and active matrix displays. During his long LCD career, he developed and manufactured over 500 types of custom and standard PM and AM LCDs for avionics, military, telecommunication, agriculture, automobile, industrial and consumer applications. Many of those LCDs were the first or novel applications in their areas. The positions held by him earlier include: Research Fellow and Assistant Professor of Physics, Gorakhpur University (India); Senior Scientific Officer, National Physical Lab. (India); Vice President, Data Images (Canada) and Engineering Manager, Litton Systems Canada. Currently, he is working on high performance avionics and military displays and systems at Rockwell Collins Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA, USA. Dr. Bahadur has been a member of SID since 1982 and the International Liquid Crystal Society since its inception. He is serving SID Upper Midwest (formerly Minneapolis- St. Paul) Chapter as its Director since 2003. He also served the chapter as its Special Program Chair from 2002 to 2007. Dr. Bahadur has chaired and co-chaired many sessions at SID and IDRC conferences since 1994 and has been member of their program and scientific committees for a long time. He has been chair of SID LCT committee 1997, 2009 and 2010. He was awarded the prestigious SID Special Recognition Award in 1993 for his outstanding work in LCDs and was a Guest Editor for J. SID in 1999. Dr. Bahadur was a member of the editorial board of international journal Displays (1993-2006) and Adjunct Professor, University of Waterloo, Canada (1995-1996). He was also a member of the Scientific Committee of The International Liquid Crystal Conferences held in 1990, 1996 and 2000. He was a member of Institute of Physics (1982- 2004), Societe de Chimie Physique (1972- 1987) and Liquid Crystals Abstracting Panel (1978-1980). Dr Bahadur was a member of the ADEAC Program committee since its inception and chaired its Military and Avionics Display Sessions in 2004, 2005 and 2006. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Liquid Crystal Today (since1993), Foreign Fellow of Indian National Science Academy (since 1998) and Sr. Member SID (since 2009).

Chris Chinnock – Insight Media, USA – “3D TV”

Daniel den Engelsen – ABINFO - Brazil – “Lighting, light sources and BLUs”

Professor Associate at Wolfson Centre for Materials Processing at Brunel University
Daniel den Engelsen was born on October 14, 1941, in The Netherlands. He studied chemistry at the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) and University of Copenhagen (Denmark) and got his Ph.D in 1968 at the University of Utrecht. He worked in Philips Research Laboratories (scientist) and Philips Display Components (manager of R&D) from 1968-2004, where he developed CRT-technologies (cathode, vacuum, electron optics, shadow masks, manufacturing technology), FED-technologies, light and electron optics, phosphor technology, solid-state chemistry and physics, ellipsometry, surface science, plasma physics. He retired from Philips in April 2004. He was awarded as Fellow of the SID in 2002. He is a Visiting Professor at Southeast University (Nanjing, China) since 2002 and Professor Associate at Brunel University (London, UK) since 2009. He is a Visiting Scientist at the Centro de Tecnologia da Informação Renato Archer (Campinas, Brazil) since 2006, Senior Scientist at the Associação Brasileira de Informática (Campinas, Brazil) since 2007 and Associate Editor of the Journal of the Society of Information Display since 2002.

Frederico Fleury Curado – Embraer, Brazil – “Displays in Embraer”

Frederico Pinheiro Fleury Curado has been Chief Executive Officer and President of Embraer-Empresa Brasileira De Aeronáutica S.A. since April 2007. Mr. Curado joined Embraer in 1984. He serves as Secretary of several of Embraer's subsidiaries. He served as Executive Vice President of Civil Aircraft of EMBRAER - Brazilian Aviation Company Inc. from 1995 to April 2007. He served as Executive Vice President of Airline Market of Embraer-Empresa Brasileira De Aeronáutica S.A since 1995 until April 2007. Prior to that, Mr. Curado served as EMBRAER – Brazilian Aviation Company Inc.'s Executive Vice President of Planning and Organizational Development from 1997 to August 1998. Prior to that, he held several different positions at Embraer in the areas of manufacturing, procurement, information technology, contracts and sales. He serves as a Director of several of Embraer’s subsidiaries. Mr. Curado received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical-Aeronautical Engineering from Brazil's Aeronautics Technological Institute (Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica - ITA). In addition, he has a post-graduate degree in Foreign Trade from the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Fundacao Getulio Vargas - FGV) and an International Executive MBA from the University of Sao Paulo (Universidade de Sao Paulo - USP).

Gopalan Rajeswaran – Moser Baer India Ltd – India – “Business model of a flexible AMOLED line”

Dr. Gopalan Rajeswaran (Raj) received the B.E, M.Tech and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1976, 1978 and 1983 from the University of Madras, the Indian Institute of Technology and the State University of New York, respectively. He joined Brookhaven National Laboratory in 1982 as a staff scientist, and was involved in the early years of amorphous silicon solar cell development. In 1985 he joined Eastman Kodak Company as a group leader & technical coordinator within the semiconductor laser and LED fabrication group. In 1991, he became a senior staff engineer in the area of LED array printhead development and the manufacturing of writer subsystems for high-speed digital copiers and printers. In 1996 became the program manager of OLED technology development and commercialization at Eastman Kodak Company, where he established the Kodak-Sanyo joint development alliance that resulted in the world's first active matrix OLED displays. He served as the Vice President of SK Display Corporation, Gifu, Japan from December 2001 until January 2004. In 2003, Kodak introduced the first commercial digital cameras containing SKD manufactured AMOLED displays. From 2004 until 2007, he returned to Kodak and Kodak Japan as Vice President for Advanced Development & Strategic Initiatives in the OLED business unit where he was charged with promoting OLED business alliances among major display companies in Japan, Korea & Taiwan. Simultaneous with business responsibilities, Raj held the position of Senior Research Fellow in the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratories. In 2007, he joined Moser Baer Photovoltaic Ltd (New Delhi, India), a wholly owned subsidiary of Moser Baer India Ltd, as its President & Chief Technology Officer. From 2008, he assumed a broader technology role as the Group Chief Technology Officer of Moser Baer India Ltd and the CEO of Moser Baer Technologies Inc, a newly created business unit for nurturing new business initiatives in the fields of sustainable energy technologies. Over the past 25 years, Raj has been actively engaged in international conferences by delivering several invited seminars, tutorials and short courses in the fields of Photovoltaics and OLEDs. In 2009, he was elected as the Director of the India Chapter of SID and promoted to Senior Member grade.

Greg Grabski - Esterline Korry - “Trends in displays for military applications”

Greg Grabski graduated from Warsaw Institute of Technology with Master’s Degree in Opto-Mechanics. He spent the first two years of his career on research at Plasma Physics and Laser Fusion Institute in Warsaw. The next several years he designed and built optics for cinema projectors and copy machines. After working 13 years in Poland he moved to North America and continued with building optics, this time in the ophthalmic industry.

His last 20 years have been dedicated entirely to AMLCD displays for avionics: first at Litton Systems Canada in Etobicoke and then at Optical Imaging Systems in Northville, Michigan. In both places he worked on basic solutions to design and fabrication of high performance AMLCDs and on integration of AMLCD to avionics display systems.

Greg joined Esterline Korry Electronics in 1998 where he established and served as a leader of an engineering group designing displays. The team developed an extensive line of display product as well as all associated unique processes and display components.

In his current capacity at Esterline as Chief Engineer and Product Manager Greg Grabski is responsible for day to day engineering as well as setting technical and business direction for the Displays group for military and commercial avionics.

Han-Ping Shieh - National Chiao Tung University - Taiwan

"Trends in LCD Technology"

Han-Ping D. Shieh received his BS degree from National Taiwan University in 1975 and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, U.S.A. in 1987. He joined National Chiao Tung University (NCTU) in Hsinchu, Taiwan as a professor at Institute of Opto-Electronic Engineering and Microelectronics and Information Research Center (MIRC) in 1992 after as a Research Staff Member at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA since 1988. He was an Associate Director, MIRC, NCTU. He founded and served as the Director, Display Institute at NCTU in 2003, the first such kind of graduate academic institute in the world dedicated for display education and research. He was appointed as a co-PI of “Display Science and Technology Large-Scale Project” in 2004, a national project to drive Taiwan display into new era. He served as the Dean, College of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NCTU 2006 -2010 and AU Optronics Chair Professor. He is the fellow of IEEE, OSA and SID. He is a Chang Jiang Scholar and a Chair Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China since 2010. He is now an NCTU Chair Professor and Senior Vice President, National Chiao Tung University. His current research interests are in display, optical MEMS, nano-optical components, and solar energy. He has served as a Director, SID, and as program chair, committee member, organized conferences in major data storage (ISOM, MORIS, Intermag, ODS, APDSC) and display (SID, IDRC, IDMC, ASID, FPD Expo, etc.). He has published more than 160 journal papers and has more 60 patents to his credit. He is an Assoc. Editor of IEEE/OSA J. of Display Technology and J. of Society for Information Display.

Hsing-Chien Tuan - Chimei Innolux (CMI), Taiwan - “Current status of the display industry”

Ms. Hsing-chien Tuan serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Chimei Innolux Corporation and has been its Chairman. Mr. Tuan has been in the TFT-LCD industry for 18 years. Mr. Tuan served as General Manager of Innolux Display Corp. Prior to that, he served as President of AU Optronics Corp. and Unipac Optoelectronics (now AU Optronics). He also worked for Xerox. He has been Director of Innolux Display Corp. since November 2002. He served as Vice Chairman of Chimei Innolux .

Ingrid Heynderickx - Philips and Technical University of Delft, Holland – “Advances in visual perception studies”

Ingrid Heynderickx received her PhD degree in physics at the University of Antwerp in December 1986. In 1987 she joined the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, and meanwhile worked in different areas of research: optical design of displays, processing of liquid crystalline polymers and functionality of personal care devices. Since 2005 she is research fellow in the group Visual Experiences, where she is heading the project on Visual Perception of Display and Lighting Systems. She is member of the Society for Information Displays (SID), and for the SID, she was chairman of the Applied Vision subcommittee, and currently is guest editor for a special issue on Display Characterization for the Journal of the SID. In 2005, she is appointed Guest Research Professor at the Southeast University of Nanjing (China) and Part-time Full Professor at the University of Technology in Delft (the Netherlands).

Jean-Noël Perbet - Thales Avionics - France

"The Impact on new technologies on future cockpits"

Graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télecommunications (Paris) in 1975. In 1977, he joined the Display lab. of the Central Research Laboratory of Thales (Orsay) and Thales Avionics (Bordeaux) in 1986. He led the Advanced Studies team who introduced the LCD technology for cockpit applications and developed advanced cockpit concepts. Then he promoted future avionics systems both for cockpit and cabin in the USA in 94-97 (Seattle). Since 2010, he leads the Joint Scientific Initiative with Bordeaux University and Thales known as GIS Albatros. He is as member of the SID France- Club Visu since 1984 where he held various positions: Director of the French Chapter 91-94, Regional Vice President Europe 94-96, Chapter Formation Chair 97-98, Long Range Planning Committee Chair 98-99. He participates as a lecturer to seminars of the Club Visu and is an active member of the Display of the Year Awards and SID Scientific Committees of the main SID conference and Eurodisplay. He became a Senior member in May 2007. He was General Chair of Eurodisplay 2011 in Bordeaux-Arcachon.

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John A. Rupp – Motorola Solutions Inc. – “Display requirements for handheld products”

Joo Tae Moon - LCD Business Samsung Electronics - “Trends and challenges for the LCD industry”

Judith Redi – Technical Univ. of Delft – The Netherlands – “Aesthetics and quality of display pictures”

Received the PhD from the University of Genoa (Italy) in 2010, with a thesis on learning machines for objective image quality assessment, final result of a project on visual quality in displays funded by Philips research. After receiving the award for the best ICT thesis from University of Genoa, moved to Eurecom (France) for a post doc on Digital Image Forensics and 3D face recognition. Since Octber 2010, is Assistant Professor at the Interactive Intelligence group of Delft University of Technology, faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS). At TU Delft, Work on image and video understanding towards the maximization of the quality of multimedia experiences. This is a highly multidisciplinary field that connects visual perception, cognitive science and engineering, machine learning and computer vision. Also is ambassador of DEWIS (Delft Women in Science) in EEMCS, and as such I promote activities to support gender diversity and women networking within the Delft University.

Kalil Kalantar – Global Optical Solutions

“Trends and Prospects of LCD Backlighting Optics and Technologies”

Kalil Käläntär completed his studies at Poly Technique University in Azerbaijan, Toyohashi University of Technology, Nagoya University and Tohoku University in Japan. He holds a B.E., and a M.E., Ph.D. degree from Toyohashi University of Technology and a second Ph.D. from Tohoku University. He has worked on spatial 2-D optical-coherent image transmission in graded-index optical-fiber and step-index optical-fiber bundles, opto-eletronic sensors and measurement equipments, optical-microstructure functional devices, and display optics. Since 1995, he has been working on optical devices and modules for LCD units. He devised, for the first time, an optical light-guide plate with optical micro-reflectors as well as micro-deflectors. He is, however, the first designer, developer and manufacturer of the functional light-guide plates with the microstructures. In May 2007 he got the Special Recognition Award for his outstanding contribution for introducing a novel optical-design method for the light guides used in the LCD backlights. He has published more than 105 papers and articles in English, Japanese and Chinese. He holds more than 80 issued patents and patents pending worldwide. He has authored and supervised three books in Japanese titled LCD Backlighting Technologies, LED Backlighting Technologies and Technological Lighting Exploitation for LCD. He also has partially written six books in Japanese on display electronics. He was an advisor to Aomori OCB LCD, Japan. He was selected a Senior Member of the SID in 2008. He received a Distinguished Paper award of SID2011. He is the Senior Researcher at Global Optical Solutions. He is a member of the program committee (DSY) of the Society for Information Display (SID). He served as Program Vice-Chair of SID2010 and was in charge of the Special Topic of Solid-State Lighting (Novel Lighting) at the SID2010. He served as program Chair for LIT dedicated to Solid-State Lighting for IDW2010. He is serving as associated editor for special issue of JSID on Solid-State Lighting. He is a member of the program committees of FMC and DES of the International Display Workshops IDW, Japan.

Kalluri Sarma – Honeywell, USA - “Displays and night vision equipment”

Kenneth I. Werner - Nutmeg Consultants - USA

"Web TV"

Kenneth I. Werner is the founder and Principal of Nutmeg Consultants, and was the Editor of Information Display Magazine from 1987 to 2005. He serves as a Senior Analyst for Insight Media, is a founding co-editor and regular contributor for Display Daily, and is a regular contributor to HDTVexpert.com and HDTV Magazine. Mr. Werner regularly addresses technical and trade organizations in the Americas and Asia, and is routinely consulted by brokers, analysts, attorneys, members of the international press corps, and companies entering or repositioning themselves in the industry, or wishing consulting services on display technology, the display industry, or display and component sourcing. He speaks frequently with senior corporate and technology executives of large, mid-sized, and small display-related companies in Asia, Europe, and the Americas, as well as government officials and academic researchers. At BRDisplay II (July 2004, Recife, Brazil), he served as a consultant to the working groups developing a national strategy for the growth of display-related industry in Brazil and wrote the introduction to their report. He is the Marketing Consultant for Tannas Electronic Displays, and has done extensive research on markets for custom-sized and bar-type displays, particularly for signage applications. Mr. Werner began his career as a semiconductor device design engineer for RCA. He holds a B.A. in physics from Rutgers University and an M.S. in solid-state physics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has taken graduate management courses at the University of Connecticut. He has been an active participant in the display industry since 1987. Mr. Werner has given keynote presentations at LCD/PDP International 2001 (Yokohama, Japan), and InfoDisplay VI (October 2003, Fortaleza, Brazil), and invited presentations at the winter Consumer Electronics Show 2002 (Las Vegas, Nevada), the International Display Manufacturing Conference 2002 (Seoul, Korea), the Liquid Crystal Institute (November 2002, Kent, Ohio), , IMID 2005 (Seoul, Korea), The Signage and Graphics Summit (January 2007, Tucson, Arizona), LatinDisplay 2007 and 2008 (Campinas, Brazil), and LatinDisplay 2009 (Sao Paulo). He was a referee for the Display Invention Competition held in August 2003 in Korolev, Russia. Most recently, Mr. Werner delivered invited papers at Technologies for Custom Display Modules (SID-LA, Feb. 5, 2010); CVCE 2010 in Asan, Korea; LatinDisplay 2010 in Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Organic Displays, Lighting, and Electronics, (SID-LA, Feb. 2011). He delivered a keynote luncheon address on OLED displays at the Nomura Pan-Asia Technology Forum (May, 2011, Hong Kong) and an invited presentation on 3D displays at Display Taiwan (June 2011, Taipei). Mr. Werner was program chair for the highly successful One-day Symposium on Emerging Display Technologies sponsored by the Los Angeles Chapter of the Society for Information Display (Feb. 2012). He is a member of the Society for Information Display and IEEE, and was Chairman of the Advisory Board for the award-winning IEEE Circuits & Devices magazine.

Lauren Palmateer - Nura Life Sciences, USA

Lauren Palmateer holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and 30 years of experience in electronics. She has served in various capacities, worldwide, in research, development and manufacturing for major corporations as IBM Flat Panel Display Division, for start up companies in Silicon Valley and for research institutions as the Observatory of Paris. She has developed liquid crystal display related technologies and products from the conception stage to volume manufacturing in Japan, Taiwan and China. Very early in her career, at 19 years old and an an undergraduate in electronics, she served as personal assistant at Bell Laboratories to Dr. Arno Penzias, noble Laureate in Radio Astronomy. This launched her interest in technology that led her through many years in industry in a variety of capacities from inventor to manufacturing positions. She was a member of the IBM research team that developed the first Color Laptop Thinkpad display. She was a part of the teams to bring various display technologies to product in Asia by establishing the manufacturing processes including supply chain vendor specification. In Taiwan she built factories to support large area glass display manufacturing processes. She has served as strategic planning in high technology planning for displays at Qualcomm. She developed and manufactured display technologies in rear projection television, flat panel glass X-ray replacement film technologies, and direct view e-reader display technologies. Manufacturing expertise, design of equipment, interfacing and coordination with vendors in China, Taiwan and Japan for the product development of the display technologies has been her area of work for the last 20 years. This involved coordination and vendor support from a variety of international companies for parts, pieces and processes of the manufacturing infrastructure. She holds 22 issued patents in the electronic display field. She is a presenter, lecturer and is on technical reviews boards and committees as the Society for Information Display and the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy and Energy Medicine. (ISSSEEM) She is a recognized lecture and presenter in display technologies and is now presenting in interdisciplinary fields of research including novel technologies and applications in the medical and human factors areas. She is acting Chief Technical Officer of http://www.nuralifesciences.com/ , a company in the US pursuing the adaption of biophysics technologies to the US healthcare system. She has presented at ISSSEEM 2011 and Science and Science and Nonduality 2011. She lectures in San Francisco and abroad in Paris and Brazil and was a visiting scientist in CTI in 2010, a research institution in Campinas, Brazil. Laurenpalm@earthlink.net

BNDES Representative – BNDES, Brazil – “Brazilian way to establish a display industry”

Michael D. McCreary - E Ink Corp - USA

"E Ink Microencapsulated Electrophoretic Display Technology and Applications"

Michael McCreary is the Deputy CTO of E Ink where his responsibilities include the creation of advanced technologies that is enabling new generations of paper-like reflective displays. Dr. McCreary is a 38-year veteran of the imaging industry. He previously held a number of leadership positions with the Eastman Kodak Company including General Manager of Kodak’s Microelectronics Technology Division, a semiconductor business unit that developed high performance solid state image sensors. Dr. McCreary also serves on the Board of Directors of FlexTech Alliance. He earned a B.S. with Honors in Chemistry from Principia College, a Ph.D. in Physical Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and additional training in solid-state physics and electronics from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

Munisamy Anandan – SID and Organic Lighting Technologies LLC, USA – “Trends in OLEDs for lighting”

Munisamy Anandan, PhD, is President and Managing Member at Organic Lighting Technologies, an optical component manufacturer. He specializes in market research, marketing, LCD backlighting, and flat panel display technologies. He has experience in OLED backlight for cell phones, LED backlight, LCD TV, CRT, SED, and desktop monitors. He is knowledgeable in market and technology trends for the plasma, projection television market, LCDs for desktop monitors, and OLEDs. He is experienced in the LCD, Plasma, OLED, Flat fluorescent lamp, LCD backlighting, field emission display markets and has established processes for mass manufacturing for LCD, Plasma, OLED, Flat fluorescent lamp, and LCD backlighting. He is a senior member of IEEE and the SID. He has delivered a "Key-Note Address" on 'LED backlight for LCD' at International Conferences in Moscow and Korea.

Mylene Farias – Univ. Brasilia – Brazil – “Incorporating visual attention models into the design of image and video quality metrics”

Mylene C.Q. Farias received her B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil, in 1995 and her M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, in 1998. She received her Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB), USA, in 2004 for work in no-reference video quality metrics. Dr. Farias has worked as a research engineer at CPqD (Brazil) in video quality assessment and validation of video quality metrics. She has also worked as an intern for Philips Research Laboratories (The Netherlands) in video quality assessment of sharpness algorithms and for Intel Corporation (Phoenix, USA) developing no-reference video quality metrics. Currently, she is an Assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Brasilia (UnB), where she is a member of the Graduate Program in Informatics and of the Graduate Program on Electronic Systems and Automation Engineering (PGEA). Dr. Farias is a researcher of the GPDS and her current interests include video quality metrics, video processing, multimed

Paul Breddels - Holst Center Eindhoven – “Developing AMOLEDs in Brazil with Holst Center”

Dr. Paul Breddels started his career at Philips Research Laboratories in the area of LCDs in 1984. He was sent to the Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokodai) from 1988 to 1990 to work in the area of a-Si TFTs.
In 1991, Paul joined Merck and was sent to Korea to build up the Liquid Crystal activities for Merck in that country. In the early nineties, Paul also frequently visited Taiwan to render technical support together with the sales activities of (at that time mostly TN/STN) liquid crystals.
In 1996, Paul moved to Merck Japan and became Division Manager for Liquid Crystals. At that time the first generation of VA and IPS liquid crystals were launched at Japanese LCD manufacturers.
From 2000 to 2004, Paul was Country Manager for all operations of Merck in Taiwan and he lived in Taipei. At that time, the construction of mixture production and laboratories for the Taiwan operation and for the Taiwanese customers was planned and executed.
In 2004, Paul became Global Head of the Merck LC Division in Merck’s headquarter, responsible for all operations worldwide.
In 2007, Paul left Merck and became CEO of the Dutch company OTB, specialized in design and manufacturing of machines in the area of silicon based solar cells. This company was sold to its competitor Roth und Rau in 2010 and Paul was offered the position of COO in Roth und Rau in Germany. In 2011, Roth und Rau subsequently was sold to Meyerburger in Switzerland and Paul left.
Today, Paul is engaged in Holst to support to increase its alliances in the Asian OLED market space. Given the rapid development of this technology, this is a focus area.
In addition, he is engaged with several Dutch/German high tech companies to assist them to increase business activities in Asia (and Latin America).

Rashmi Rao - Qualcomm, USA - “MEMs technology for reflective displays: the Mirasol”

Shigeo Mikoshiba - Japan

"Plasma Displays"

Shigeo Mikoshiba received B. Eng. and M. Eng. Degrees from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan in 1965 and 1967. Then he moved to Canada and earned Ph.D. Degree from University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alta. in 1971. After the graduation, he joined the Department of Physics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC as a Post Doctoral Fellow. In 1973 he returned to Japan to work for Central Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, and in 1991 he started his career as a professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering, the University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo. After the retirement from the university in 2008, he is doing consulting. He authored/edited 14 books, published 78 refereed papers, and gave seven SID Seminar Talks. He also has about 150 patent applications. He was President of SID during 2004-2006. He was also a Chair of International Electrotechnical Commission/TC110 (Flat Panel Display Devices) during 1999-2011.

Si-Ty Lam - HP, USA - “Manufacturing processes for information displays”

Dr. Si-Ty Lam is a Principal Project Scientist in the Mobile and Immersive Experience Lab of HP Laboratories, Hewlett-Packard Company. He received his PhD degree in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of California, Davis, in 1979. He was an Advisory Engineer at IBM (1979-1983), Wafer Fab Engineering Manager at Magnex Corporation (1984), prior to joining Hewlett-Packard Company (1984-present). His research activities for the past three decades have been in the areas of thermal inkjet printing, information storage and information display devices, materials and manufacturing processes. His current research focuses on creating new technologies for updatable, low-cost printable display surfaces that combine the best features of existing displays and print. He has over 35 US and worldwide patents and 30 journal publications. Dr. Lam is a member of the Materials Research Society, Society for Information Display, American Chemical Society, Electrochemical Society, Engineering Honors Society (Tau-Beta-Pi) and National Geography Society.

Tolis Voutsas – Sharp Labs of America – USA – “Thin film transistors of transparent conducting oxides”

Tolis Voutsas has been actively involved in display technology and business since 1989. He joined SHARP in 1994 and contributed to numerous projects pertinent to a-Si and poly-Si TFT material, process and device technology for active-matrix LCDs. His experience covers both research and technical management. He has held a number of engineering and management positions within SHARP, with his current role mostly focusing on R&D strategy & partnerships, new business and new technology development. Areas of current technological interest include nanomaterials, flexible electronics, novel manufacturing and new display technologies. He has authored or co-authored 3 book chapters on poly-Si TFT technology and numerous journal publications. He has been issued more than 70 US patents. Tolis received his Diploma in Engineering from the Polytechnic School of Thessaloniki (Greece) and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Lehigh University. He also received the MS degree in Technical Management from Washington State University. He joined SID in 1989 and served in various positions in the Pacific NW chapter from 2001 to 2008. In 2008 he was elected to the position of Regional VP for the Americas.

Victor V. Belyaev - Moscow State Regional University – Russia – “Advances in LC materials”

Wendy Luiten – Philips Research Laboratory, The Netherlands – “Thermal management of LED LCD TVs”

Y. W. Sun - Century Displays, China - “LTPS for Gen 6 LCD fabs”

Yasuhiro Yoshida – Sharp Japan – “Large LCD Panels X Projection Displays"