Gordon Day

Professional biography:

Gordon Day spent most of his career in research and management at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, where he founded and led the NIST Optoelectronics Division. His personal research ranged from fundamental physical measurements to the development of standards for optical fiber and new concepts in instrumentation.  More recently, he has served as science advisor to Sen. Jay Rockefeller and Director of Government Relations for the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association.  He has been a Professor Adjoint at the University of Colorado and a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton (UK), and has served on many industry, government, and academic advisory groups.   He is a past President of the IEEE Photonics Society and of IEEE-USA, and a Fellow of IEEE, AAAS, the Optical Society of America, and the Institute of Physics (UK).  He received B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois.

 
Gordon W. Day
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g.day@ieee.org