Dr. Birendra Bahadur
Director, Upper Midwest Chapter

Birendra Bahadur is an internationally recognized researcher on LCDs and Liquid Crystals, with 85 papers and 4 books published to date. Dr. Bahadur received his BS (1967), MS (Physics, 1969)) and Ph.D. (Physics, 1976) degrees from Gorakhpur University, India. He had an exceptionally brilliant academic record winning numerous gold medals, awards and scholarships. He started his research on Liquid Crystals and LCDs in 1969 for his Ph.D. thesis and, since then, has remained in the field of electronic displays. He has contributed very significantly to the development of the basic science and mass scale manufacturing technology of many types of LCDs, including dynamic scattering, dichroic, TN, STN, PDLC and active matrix displays. The positions held by him earlier include Assistant Professor of Physics, Gorakhpur University (India); Senior Scientific Officer, National Physical Lab. (India); Vice President, Data Images (Canada) and Engineering Manager, Litton Systems Canada. Currently, he is working on high performance avionics displays and systems at Rockwell Collins Inc., Cedar Rapids, IA, USA.

Dr. Bahadur has been a member of SID since 1982 and the International Liquid Crystal Society since its inception. He is serving SID Upper Midwest (formerly Minneapolis- St. Paul) Chapter as its Director since 2003. He also served the chapter as its Special Program Chair from 2002 to 2007. Dr. Bahadur has chaired and co-chaired many sessions at SID and IDRC conferences since 1994 and has been member of their program and scientific committees for a long time. He was awarded the prestigious SID Special Recognition Award in 1993 for his outstanding work in LCDs and was also a Guest Editor for J. SID in 1999. Dr. Bahadur was a member of the editorial board of international journal Displays (1993-2006). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Liquid Crystal Today since1993 and a Foreign Fellow of Indian National Science Academy since 1998. He was also a member of the Scientific Committee of The International Liquid Crystal Conferences held in 1990, 1996 and 2000. He was a member of Institute of Physics (1982- 2004), Societe de Chimie Physique (1972- 1987) and Liquid Crystals Abstracting Panel (1978-1980). Dr Bahadur has been a member of the ADEAC Program committee since its inception and has chaired its Military and Avionics Display Sessions in 2004, 2005 and 2006.