Profile

Qun Yan

Professor,
Fuzhou Univeristy
Treasurer
SID FELLOW
Professor,
Fuzhou Univeristy

Bio

He has established well-known reputation as a leading expert in display industry, especially in the field of emissive display. He has tracking record of making initial technology innovation into manufacturing technology and creating consumer electronic products successfully in high yield mass production. In his 26 years display career he developed many new materials, production processes technology, device structures, driving waveforms and measurement methods for display products. He has over 90 journal publications, over 45 conference presentations, and over 50 display technology related patents in his professional career. Due to his outstanding contributions to display technology, he won SID (Society for Information Display) Special Recognition Award in 2013 and SID Fellow Award in 2017. He is currently the Treasurer of SID, director of SID Beijing Chapter, and the CEO of SID China, the only SID operational entity outside USA. He is also the Chair of Display Technology Training School Committee at SID. The Mirco-LED was introduced to SID emissive display subcommittee by him when he was the chair of emissive display subcommittee from 2014-2017. He currently is full time professor at Fuzhou University at Fujian province in China, he is also holding joint professorship at Xian Jiaotong University and Southeast University. He is currently engaged in research and development in the field of highly integrated semiconductor information display (HISID) and interactive rich media based on Micro-LED.

He was the chief scientist for Changhong Electric Group, one of the largest consumer electronics conglomerate in China. He has led the team successfully developed high luminous efficiency technology, greatly reduced the power consumption of plasma TV over 50%, achieved the best luminous efficacy PDP in the world. Prior to his job at Changhong, he was the chief research scientist at Panasonic Plasma Display Laboratory of America Inc. (formerly Plasmaco, 1997-2008). He led the effort of the development of new material, new device structure, and new driving waveform for next generation plasma display panel (PDP) and improving process for panel production. Before his industry job, he was a research scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory at Oak Ridge, Tennessee between 1995 and 1997. He holds Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee and M.S. and B. S. in physics from Fudan University at Shanghai, in China.

Education

Vanderbilt University
Ph.D.
Physics
1989 To 1994

Fudan University
BS and MS
Physics
1982 To 1989

Job History

Fuzhou University
Distinguished Professor
Fuzhou, China
August 2016 - present

Sichuan Changhong Electric Co.,Ltd.
Chief Scientist
Beijing, China
March 2009 - May 2016

Panasonic Plasma Display Laboratory of America (PPDLA)
Senior Scientist
New Paltz, NY, United States
June 2004 - February 2009

Plasmaco Inc.
Research Scientist
New Paltz, NY, United States
June 1997 - June 2004