Arokia Nathan

Internationally recognized for leadership in thin film transistor circuits and systems. Has delivered numerous invited and plenary talks given at flagship meetings, and very active in technical committees of IEEE and Materials Research Society. Is on the Board of Governors of the IEEE Electron Devices Society. Very active in the publications committee of EDS and is an Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology. Was elected Fellow of the IEEE for pioneering technological achievements in flexible electronics.Successfully collaborating with many prominent academic groups in the UK (Imperial and King?s College, Universities of Cambridge, Brunel, and Dundee), Europe (Fraunhofer, Universities of Freiburg and Stuttgart Germany, Uninova Portugal, Oulu Finland), USA (Universities of Princeton and Arizona), and Asia (SNU and KAIST Korea, NIMS Japan, Peking University China, and Indian Institute of Science and IIT Bombay) ? to produce the cutting-edge research as well as joint EU and EPSRC collaborative proposals and contracts.Highly committed to working with industry and technology transfer. Consultant to various companies world-wide including Samsung, BioPix Canada, Universal Display Technology China, Nano e-Print UK, Carestream Health USA, and Bio-Nano Consulting. Continue to maintain strong collaborative ties with international companies related to large area electronics: UK (Philips, SPTS, PETEC), Netherlands (Polymer Vision), Japan (SONY), Korea (LGD, Samsung, SDTech), USA (Dupont), Taiwan (Innolux, AUO, Wintek, TPK, PVI, RIT Display, TPO) and China (UDT, BOE). Demonstrated successful transfer of laboratory results to new spin-off companies? one of which is in stage C investment and the other that is close to seed financing.Serves on the advisory board of several academic institutions and industry, including Freiburg FRIAS, UCL Centre for Sustainable Heritage, Technical Advisory Board of Nano e-Print UK and is a member of the International Flat Panel Display Standardization Committee. External assessor of international funding programs.Awarded the prestigious NSER E.W.R. Steacie Fellowship; one of Canada?s premier science and engineering awards given to a select few outstanding scientists and engineers in Canada who surpass all others for original research in the early stages of their career.Made significant contributions to the Canadian academic community. Secured and integrated the participation of 26 professors from various departments in Science and Engineering from twelve Universities across Canada to successfully champion a mega initiative totalling approximately $12M for a nanofabrication facility at the University of Waterloo. This facility, the only one of its kind in N. America, added new and advanced processing capability enabling fabrication of Giga-to-Nano Electronics for wireless, biological, environmental, medical, and general consumer electronics applications.