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In addition, he serves as Board member and consultant at a number of high tech companies in Taiwan, and is active in educational as well as charitable services on a worldwide basis. His expertise is in the semiconductor area, particularly in the design and manufacturing aspects.

He is a member of Academia Sinica, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Shuji Nakamura was born in Japan in 1954. 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. In 1993 and 1995 he developed the first groupIII nitride-based blue/green LEDs. He also developed the first group-III nitride-based violet laser diodes (LDs) in 1995. 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 390 papers in this field.

Christian Geng studied at Florida Atlantic University, USA and University of Stuttgart, Germany. He received his Master Degree in Physics 1993 in Stuttgart working on MOCVD growth and characterization of AlGaInP. Extension in research experience was gained by working as a scientist on MOCVD growth of InP and related materials at Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, a governmentally funded research institute in Padova, Italy. Returning to Germany, he resumed his work at Stuttgart University to lead the 'red laser team' and achieve a PhD degree on MOVPE growth of AlGaInP lasers. He then worked at TEMIC Telefunken Microelectronic in Heilbronn, Germany as a head engineer in charge of development and production of AlGaInP UHB-LEDs by MOVPE. In 1998, he joined AIXTRON SE as a Product Manager for the Asia-Pacific market and in 2001 moved to Taiwan to lead the local operations as General Manager. Today, he is Vice President Greater China with the responsibility for AIXTRON Group's South East Asia market. He is author of more than 80 publications on III/V semiconductors.

Jia Lee Ph.D. is currently the Director of Marketing for Veeco's MOCVD business, serving the HB LED industry. Prior to joining Veeco, Jia held a variety of senior product marketing positions at Applied Materials, a leading global nanomanufacturing equipment provider to the semiconductor and related industries. Prior he was an Advisory Engineer at IBM Microelectronics, where he worked on low-k dielectric material development and integration technologies.

Lee Ph.D. earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and his M.B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He holds a number of patents related to thin film chemical vapor deposition

Ph.D. Carson Hsieh joined EPISTAR in 1998, and has served successively in many important positions from a Fabrication Manager, R&D Director to R&D Associate Vice President.

Currently, he serves as the Vice President of R&D at EPISTAR. His expertise includes LED structural design, LED process, LED application, as well as thermal dissipation management. He owns more than 100 domestic/overseas patents. Ph.D. Carson Hsieh received his Ph. D degree in Department of Power Mechanical Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in 1993.

Cheryl Diuguid is GT Advanced Technologies’ vice president and general manager, sapphire equipment and material business. Cheryl brings over 20 years of extensive international leadership experience in numerous multibillion dollar industries, most recently as the CEO of Lumetric, a Silicon Valley start-up, where she led the commercialization of an innovative high-efficiency, energy-saving lighting technology.

At both Xerium Technologies Inc., a multinational company that designs and manufactures highly engineered consumables for the paper industry and Enersys, a global leader in the industrial battery market, Diuguid built the Asian businesses optimizing the global supply chain, rebranding and relaunching the product line, and expanding the business through acquisition and infrastructure investment. At Invensys Power Systems, Diuguid held leadership roles associated with new product development and optimizing multiplant, complex global supply chains. Diuguid began her professional career as a research chemist for Burroughs Wellcome (now Glaxo Smith Kline) before joining Data General’s manufacturing organization eventually becoming the plant manager.

Diuguid holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry from Lynchburg College, a masters degree in chemistry from the University of Virginia, and an MBA from Duke University.

Holger Winkler studied chemistry at the universities of Heidelberg and Darmstadt, Germany, graduating in 1997. Afterwards he went to the University of Bochum, Germany, and received his PhD for a work in the field of gallium nitride semiconductors in 2001. In 2000, Holger Winkler joined Merck KGaA in Darmstadt, Germany, working as project leader for the development of photonic crystals. Some years later he became responsible for research and development of LED phosphor materials.

As head of R&D Solid State Lighting his main interests are improving of current phosphors, finding new materials that match the requirements of LED industry and solid state lighting application technology. Holger has filed over 60 patent families and is author of scientific papers on smart materials and their applications.

· Senior expert of Solar-Equipment & Semi-conductor
· Successively held the posts of the military representative of Chinese naval & R & D Director of Shanghai Hanhong Precision Machinery Co., Ltd.
· Own 20 years’ experience of complete machine design & manufacture
· Get "Shanghai-class Technology Progress Award“ many times

Ilkan Cokgor is the Vice President of Global Marketing at Everlight Electronics where he is responsible for all Everlight products worldwide. He has over 20 years of research, product development, marketing and sales experience in the fields of optoelectronics, LEDs and solid state lighting. He holds a PhD in Optelectronics from King’s College, University of London.

Rather then simply pointing out the earth’s eco challenges, Arthur Huang as an university professor, engineer, architect, and entrepreneur, has been dedicating all of his intellectual and physical capacity to create executable sustainable products and building solutions since 2004. Mr. Huang formally established MINIWIZ in 2006 and since then the company has gown organically into a profitable international eco-solution product brand employing over 40 full-time professional engineers, architects and designers.

Arthur Huang was born in Taiwan in 1978 and moved to the US at age 11. Educated as an Architect from Cornell University, armed with structural engineering knowledge, humanity studies, and hands-on execution skill, Mr. Huang furthered his professional training at well-known architecture and product design professional offices, like Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP (NYC), Pentagram Design (NYC) and CYLee & Partners. Continuing his search for multi-disciplinary professional training, he graduated from Harvard University with a Master of Architecture degree in 2004 with special interest invested in green business development.

Teaching and communicating his eco passion became a day-to-day operation, when he was given the rare opportunity at age 26 to teach as a full-time faculty at the prestigious TUNGHAI University Architecture Program in Taiwan for two years. Mr. Huang subsequently continues his teaching as part-time Assistant Professor from one of the best national funded engineering university, NCTU, in Taiwan lecturing in MBA, material engineering, and architecture design courses. Joined forces with GSD, Harvard University, Prof. Huang started the “Innovation in Low Carbon Building Envelop” engineering program partnering with Prof. Bechthold, Director of Architecture Technology and Fabrication, sharing applicable green technology research between Greater China and the US starting Spring Semester of 2011. The three years Harvard+MINIWIZ joint research program involves professional engineers and architects from MINIWIZ, and design and business school students from Harvard University.

Recognizing for his creativity and innovative spirit, Arthur received his very first award from the renowned Disney’s Creative Challenge in 1995 in California selected as one of the three finalists for the 3D category and later won the Art Medallion from Villa Park High School. In Cornell University Arthur was awarded the Charles Goodwin Sands Memorial Medal and academic leadership award for his achievement in Design and technical performance. During his teaching appointment, Arthur was awarded a Special Recognition Award among university faculties for his contribution in teaching excellence by initiated, executed, and taught, the never thought possible, a privately funded semester-credit TUNGHAI in ROME program partnering with Cornell University in 2006, and the program is still running today. Four years later, Recognizing for his genuine innovation in Eco technology products, Arthur was awarded the EARTH AWARD, 2010 PRODUCT winner in London’s Common Wealth of Secretariats selected by the world’s most sophisticated leaders in Green. 2011, National Geographic Channel is featuring Arthur and the MINIWIZ R/D team in an hour-long “MEGASTRUCTURE-EcoARK” program airing internationally across 150 countries telling the vivid story of eco innovation today through HD resolution.

Yi-Jen Chan is the VP & EOL General Director, ITRI and also a distinguished professor at the dept. of E. E. at National Central University.

He received his B.S.E.E degree from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, the M.S.E.E degree from National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, and the Ph.D degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1982, 1984, and 1992 respectively. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Central University, Chungli, Taiwan, as an Associate Professor in 1992, and became a Professor in 1996, and served as the Department Chair from 1998 to 2001. Since Dec. 2004, he joined the Electronics & Optoelectronics Laboratories (EOL), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), as a Deputy General Director and was promoted to be the general director of EOL from July 2007.

He received Science Paper Award of Far Eastern Y. Z. Hsu Science and Technology Memorial Foundation in 2006. He has over 100 technical journal papers and 18 patents.

Currently he is responsible for flexible electronics, nano-electronics, ACLED and optoelectronics programs in the ITRI.

Dr.Yun-Li Charles Li received his Ph. D. degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with Prof. Fred Schubert in 2003. Dr. Li’s research work focused on Gallium Nitride (GaN) light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and solid state lighting (SSL) applications.
Dr. Li joined Genesis Photonics, Inc (GPI) in 2008. He is currently in charge of R&D center of GPI. His research interests focus on GaN material and device applications. In addition, he is also interested in developing the solid state lighting system with multi-LED chips, so called “Smart Lighting System”. Smart lighting system takes advantages of the controllability of spectrum from multi-LED illumination sources.

Mr. Vincent Cheng joined Lextar in 2000 and leads Lighting Business Division. Under his governance, Lextar’s lighting business has a significant growth by running LSVP (Lighting Solution and Value Provider) model.

Prior to joining Lextar, Cheng was the Associate VP of Global Supply Chain Management at Qisda Corporations since 2007. Prior to that, Cheng had long experience at AUO from 1998 to 2007. At AUO, Cheng was responsible for notebook and monitor application BU since 2000, and transferred to USA branch office in 2003. He set up AUO South Asia District Branch in 2005, and returned to Taiwan in 2006.

Cheng has a proven track record of building deep marketing and sales competency. Cheng received Master Degree in Materials Science and Engineering from National Taiwan University in 1995.