Jingyu LinDr. Jingyu Lin received her BS in Physics in 1983 from the State University of New York College at Oneonta. She obtained PhD in Physics in 1989 from Syracuse University under the guidance of the late Prof. Arnold Honig (an academic descendant of the ate Nobel laureate Prof. Charles Townes). Dr. Lin devotes her research efforts to the development of novel materials and devices for lighting, display, energy conversion, and radiation sensing based on III-nitride wide bandgap semiconductors. She is the inaugural Linda Whitacre Endowed Chair and Horn Distinguished Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering at Texas Tech University. In 2000, Dr. Lin co-invented the MicroLED; in 2002, she co-invented single-chip high-voltage AC/DC-LEDs for general illumination, and in 2011, she and her colleagues realized the first video-capable MicroLED microdisplay in VGA format, which transitioned MicroLEDs from prototype to reality and inspired worldwide development of MicroLED products. She is also recognized for pioneering the development in 1997 of the first "frequency-quadrupled" picosecond time-resolved optical spectroscopy system to cover the spectral range of deep UV (to 195 nm). She is the co-founder of III-N Technology, Inc. and AC-LED Lighting, LLC, which facilitated commercialization of high-voltage AC/DC LEDs and MicroLEDs. She has 19 issued patents. More recently, she and her colleagues have achieved boron nitride (BN) neutron detectors with a record high efficiency among solid-state detectors, which has the potential to revolutionize neutron detector technologies. She relocated to Texas Tech in 2008 from Kansas State University where she was a Professor of Physics. Prof. Lin is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Physical Society (APS), the Optical Society of America (OSA), the SPIE - the international society for optics and photonics, and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Read More Read Less