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805-893-8447 John E. Bowers is Director of the Institute for Energy Efficiency and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is also CTO and cofounder of Calient Networks and Chairman of the Board of BioIQ. His research interests are primarily concerned with silicon photonics, optoelectronic devices, optical switching and transparent optical networks. Bowers is cofounder of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Engineering Management, and founder of Terabit Technology (sold to Ciena). Bowers received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. He worked for AT&T Bell Laboratories and Honeywell before joining UCSB. Bowers is a fellow of the IEEE, OSA and the American Physical Society, and a recipient of the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award and the South Coast Business and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year Award. He was an elected member of the IEEE LEOS Board of Governors, a LEOS Distinguished Lecturer, and Vice President for Conferences for LEOS. He has published eight book chapters, 450 journal papers, 700 conference papers and has received 52 patents. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He and coworkers received the ACE Award for Most Promising Technology for the hybrid silicon laser in 2007. |
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805-893-4828 Daniel T. Colbert joined the Institute as Executive Director in June 2008. Prior to coming to UC Santa Barbara, he was Chief Technology Officer and a principal at NGEN Partners, a Santa Barbara-based venture capital firm focusing its investments in “cleantech”— products and services that positively affect the environment. Colbert earned his bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Cornell University and his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at The University of Wisconsin-Madison. Colbert did postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley and Lawrence-Berkeley National Laboratory, then joined the Chemistry faculty at Rice University in Houston, where he worked closely with nanotechnology pioneer and Nobel laureate Professor Rick Smalley on carbon nanotubes; that work led to a founding role, with Smalley, in Carbon Nanotechnologies, Inc. (CNI). He left CNI for the position at NGEN. |
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805-893-5496 Whitney Wegener joined the Institute as Program Director in January 2009 and has been working for Engineering and Science at UC Santa Barbara since 2006. Before joining the Institute, she served the Associate Director of Marketing and Strategy for the College of Engineering. Wegener earned her bachelor's degree in Physics from Royal Holloway College, University of London. She has marketing & advertising agency experience, including management of national print and direct marketing campaigns, website development and search engine optimization. |
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805-893-4964 Yvonne Freeman joined the Institute as Business Officer in January 2009 and has been working for The College of Engineering at UC Santa Barbara since 2001. Before joining the Institute, she served as the liaison for the College of Engineering in undergraduate industry recruitment matters, coordinating a tutoring program and assisting students in preparation for the workforce. |
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John E. Bowers
Daniel T. Colbert
Whitney Wegener
Sejal Hall
Yvonne Freeman
