Strategic Directions Committee
Strategic Directions Committee Chair
John Dallesasse is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Associate Dean in the Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he’s been for over 10 years. He also has over 20 years of industry experience in technology development and executive management, having led technically diverse and geographically distributed engineering teams. Prior to joining UIUC he was the Chief Technology Officer, Vice President, and co-founder of Skorpios Technologies where he was responsible for developing innovative methods for heterogeneous integration of compound semiconductors with silicon. His technical contributions include, with Nick Holonyak, Jr., the discovery of III‑V Oxidation, which has become an enabling process technology for the fabrication of Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) for optical networking, 3D imaging, and LIDAR applications. John has over 100 publications and conference presentations, and 50 issued patents. He serves as the Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, the Chair of the Steering Committee for the IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing, and as the Vice President of Technical Committees for IEEE-EDS. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Optica.
Strategic Goals
1. Be the first place that students and technical professionals working in the field of electron devices go to for the information and services that are indispensable for their success.
2. Equitably foster diverse and inclusive communities of practice to facilitate information exchange, collaboration and professional development for greater technological innovation and excellence to benefit all humanity.
3. Establish a process and allocate sufficient resources to support innovative projects that apply electron devices and technology for humanity to address one or more of the United Nations sustainable development goals.
4. Develop synergistic relationships outside EDS to accelerate technological progress in multi-disciplinary areas.
Strategic Directions Committee Charter
Strategic Directions Webinars
Strategic Directions Webinar #1 Recording
Strategic Directions Webinar #2 Recording
Strategic Directions Webinar Slides
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