Russel D. Dupuis

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name = Russel Dean Dupuis

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awards = IEEE Edison Medal


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Russel Dean Dupuis (born in 1947) is the Steve W. Chaddick Endowed Chair in Electro-Optics in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Tech. He has made pioneering contributions to metalorganic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and continuous-wave room-temperature quantum-well lasers.cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/bios/2007_Bios/2007Edison-Dupuis.html|title=Russell D. Dupuis|publisher=IEEE] His other work has focused on III-V heterojunction devices, and LEDs.

Education

Dupuis earned his B.S. (1970), his M.S. (1971), and his Ph.D. (1972) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Awards and memberships

A Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, Dupuis and two of his colleagues were awarded the 2002 National Medal of Technology for their work on developing and commercializing LEDs. [cite web|title=President Bush Awards Georgia Tech Professor with National Medal of Technology|url=http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=210|date=2003-11-07|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology] He won the 1985 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the IEEE, the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Optical Society of America.

Russell D. Dupuis won the 2004 John Bardeen Award [cite web|url=http://www.ieee.org/organizations/pubs/newsletters/leos/dec03/russell.html|title=Russell D. Dupuis 2004 John Bardeen Award Winner|publisher=IEEE LEOS Newsletter, Volume 17 Number 6|date=2003-12] and the 2007 IEEE Edison Medal [cite web|url=http://www.gatech.edu/news-room/release.php?id=1294|title=Dupuis to be Awarded IEEE Edison Award|date=2007-03-07|publisher=Georgia Institute of Technology] .

References

External links

* [http://www.ece.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/fac_profiles/bio.php?id=129 Official profile]