SCIENCE & ENGINEERING ADVISORY BOARD
Yang Yang, Ph.D., Scientific co-founder of ORFID Corporation and Chairman of the Science and Engineering Advisory Board. Dr. Yang is Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at UCLA. His research focuses on conjugated polymers and organics, polymer LEDs, and other related polymer electronic, photonic, and bio-devices. He has published more than 70 refereed papers, given more than 40 presentations on his research work and has received several US patents. He has received awards and honors including the NSF Career Award, 1998; the 3M Young Investigator Award, 1998 and the Professional Development Award, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 1991. Prior to joining UCLA as an Assistant Professor in 1997, he was a device physicist at UNIAX Corporation, now called DuPont Display. Also, he joined Prof. Bryan Kohler’s group at UC-Riverside as a post-doctoral researcher from December 1991 to September 1992. Professor Yang received his B.S. in Physics from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 1981, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from University of Massachusetts-Lowell, 1988 and 1992 respectively.
Alan H. Cowley, Ph.D., the Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin is the recipient of numerous awards, such as the Royal Society of Chemistry Award for Main-Group Element Chemistry, 1980; Centenary Medal and Lectureship, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1986; American Chemical Society Southwest Regional Award, 1986; Stiefvater Memorial Award and Lectureship, University of Nebraska, 1987; Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, 1988 (Britain’s National Academy); Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists, 1994; and the von Humboldt Prize, 1995. He is the author of over 460 publications in a wide range of areas within the field of main-group organo-metallic chemistry. From 1988-1989, he was the Sir Edward Frankland Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at Imperial College, London, England. Prior to Imperial College, he was at The University of Texas at Austin, where he held the following positions: Assistant Professor of Chemistry, 1962-1967, Associate Professor of Chemistry, 1967-1970, Professor of Chemistry, 1970-1984, George W. Watt Centennial Professor of Chemistry, 1984-1988. During the years 1960-1961 he was a
Technical Officer with the Exploratory Group of Imperial Chemical Industries (Billingham Division), England. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow, and later an Instructor at the University of Florida during the period 1958-1960. Professor Cowley received the following degrees: Bachelor of Science with Honors in chemistry in 1955, Master of Science in 1956, and Doctor of Philosophy in 1958, from the University Of Manchester, England. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Bordeaux, France in 2003.
Walter Mosher, Ph.D, was Chairman of Board and CTO of Precision Dynamics Corporation (PDC), which he co-founded in 1956. PDC was established to manufacture
and distribute products in the health care field. Dr. Mosher served as President of Precision Dynamics Corporation from 1957 through 2002. Until 1971, Dr. Mosher was a faculty
member of UCLA. During his tenure at UCLA, he served as a Director of the Urban Ecology and Transportation Group at the Institute of Transportation and Traffic Engineering.
Dr. Mosher also served as a consultant to the Federal Government in its initial activities associated with setting up the National Highway Safety Bureau in the Department of
Transportation. In 1971, Dr. Mosher assumed full-time management of Precision Dynamics Corporation. Since that time annual sales have increased about 100 fold to $50 million.
Dr. Mosher holds several patents in the patient identification field and has numerous publications in the field of highway safety and traffic flow theory. In addition to his
responsibilities at Precision Dynamics Corporation, Dr. Mosher is or has been a Member of the CALTRANS Airspace Advisory Committee, Director of the Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed),
Director of the Valley Family Center, a member of the Executive Board, Board of Directors, and Past Chair of the Valley Industry Commerce Association, Board member and member
of various advisory and technical committees for the Health Industry Business Communications Council, AdvaMed Board and Technical & Regulatory Committee member, Board member
of Valley Economic Development Center, Board member of the San Fernando Policy Advisory Council, Founder of the Mobile Technology Laboratory program, Vice Chairman of the
Southern California Biomedical Council (SCBC), Board and Executive Board member of Economic Alliance as well as co-chair of the Economic Alliance Education & Workforce
Development Committee. He received his Ph.D. in 1971 from the School of Engineering at UCLA. His fields of specialization are applied mathematics, computer technology and transportation flow theory.
Robert H. Grubbs, Ph.D., 2005 Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry, is the Atkins Professor of Chemistry at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Grubbs’s pioneering research in the area of synthetic chemistry has been the basis of several successful technology start-ups. Professor Grubbs was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Grubbs’ awards have included ACS National Award in Organometallic Chemistry, ACS Award in Polymer Chemistry (Mobil Chemical Company), Benjamin Franklin Medal in Chemistry (The Franklin Institute), Arthur C. Cope Award (ACS Division of Organic Chemistry), ACS Award for Creative Research in Homogenous or Heterogeneous Catalysis (Shell Oil Foundation), Pauling Award Medal (Oregon, Portland, Puget Sound Sections of ACS), ACS Tetrahedron Prize for Creativity in Organic Chemistry, Alfred Sloan Fellow, Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship, ACS. He received his B.S. in Chemistry from University of Florida and M.S. and Ph.D. in Chemistry from Columbia University.
Richard S. Payne, Ph.D., is the vice president of engineering at Polychromix, an advanced communications technology company. Prior to joining Polychromix, Dr. Payne served at OMM Inc., an all-optical switching company for telecommunications, as Chief Scientist and General Manager of East Coast operations. In this role, he was instrumental in developing and qualifying the first MEMS optical switch device that passed stringent Telcordia standards. Before OMM, Dr. Payne was Chief Technical Officer for Cyrano Sciences, Inc. In this position he was responsible for implementing technologies developed at Cal Tech and productizing the effort. Prior to Cyrano Sciences, Dr. Payne served at Analog Devices as Director of Manufacturing Micromachines Development for the Semiconductor division, and as a division Fellow where he was responsible for the development of the first commercial surface micro-machined acceleration sensor using MEMS technologies. He has also worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories, heading the company’s CMOS technology effort Dr. Payne was awarded the J. J. Ebers award by the IEEE Electron Devices Society for pioneering work in CMOS. He serves on the Board of Directors of IC Mechanics.
Junji Kido, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department Polymer Science and Engineering at the Yamagata University in Japan. His pioneering research is focused on design and fabrication of novel Organic Light Emitting Devices. Professor Kido is the General Director of the Research Institute for Organic Electronics at Yamagata Prefecture. He is also the Project Leader for the National Project on Development of Advanced Organic Devices for Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. Professor Kido is a member of the Japan Society of Applied Physics, the Japan Chemical Society, the Society of Polymer Science, Japan, the Rare Earth Society of Japan and the Society for Information Display. Professor Kido’s awards have included Sakurai Award, Optoelectronic Industry and Technology Development Association, JAPAN, Special Recognition Award, Society for Information Display, USA, Award of the Society, the Society of Polymer Science, JAPAN, and Young Investigator Award, the Society of Polymer Science, JAPAN. He received his B.S. in Applied Chemistry from Waseda University in Tokyo and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York.
