Munisamy Anandan

Dr. Munisamy Anandan has obtained his Ph. D in 'coplanar plasma display' and has over 30 years of experience in various types of displays-LCD, CRT, plasma display, LCD backlighting, FED, vacuum fluorescent display and OLED with 20 patents and 21 research papers.

He came to USA in 1987 and worked in Bell Communications Research, (Red Bank, NJ) Matsushita Electric Works R&D lab, (Boston, MA), Thomas Electronics Inc., (Wayne, NJ) and eMagin Corporation (Hopewell Junction, NY). He held the position of Director, Process engineering at eMagin Corporation. He is currently President & Managing Member of Organic Lighting Technologies, based in Austin, Texas.

He served Mid-Atlantic chapter from Treasurer onwards to the Chair position, twice in the cycle. In the capacity of the Director, he played a leading role in organizing the First OLED conference, sponsored by the Mid-Atlantic Chapter, that was successful despite the fact it took place just 10 days after the world trade center disaster. He is currently Vice-President of Americas Region of SID and is nearing his term. As VP of Americas Region, he initiated 'Inter-chapter speakers' exchange program' that came to be used by many chapters. He established a coordinated effort for increasing record number of nominations from Americas Region for International Awards. Recently, he initiated and is playing an active role in the organization of First Americas Display Engineering & Applications conference by most chapters of Americas Region.

He was a member of Advisory Council for the State University of New York, New Paltz campus. Being an Advisory Council member, he formed SID Student activity and introduced a flat panel display course as part of curriculum for the graduate students.

Anandan seeded the idea of the formation of SID India Chapter and played a key role in the formation of SID India Chapter. He coordinated between Mid-Atlantic Chapter and New England Chapter to help New England Chapter for enhancing its activity.

He is a member of the Display Systems Committee since 1994 and helps organizing the LCD backlighting session for the SID International Symposium every year. He served as seminar speaker for LCD backlighting in SID' 01, SID'02 and SID'03.

He also served as 'Joint-Guest Editor' for the special issue of Journal of SID on LCD backlighting and was a 'Joint-Guest Editor' for the special issue of JSID on plasma display. Anandan also served on the Editorial Board of JSID as Associate Editor for plasma display.