Dr. Jianzhong Jiao Awarded the Prestigious Colwell Cooperative Engineering Medal from the SAE Technical Standards Board
Dr. Jianzhong Jiao, Director of Regulations and Emerging Technologies at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Inc.
Dr. Jianzhong Jiao, Director of Regulations and Emerging Technologies at OSRAM Opto Semiconductors, Inc. was recently awarded the 2010 Arch T. Colwell Cooperative Engineering Medal for his contributions to the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) and the SAE Technical Standards Board and its Councils, Divisions and Committees. The Arch T. Colwell medal recognizes unique and outstanding contribution over a period of time to the work of the technical committees under the SAE Technical Standards Board in developing standards, specifications, technical reports and data through cooperative research.
Dr. Jiao is an internationally recognized lighting expert. He has been actively involved in LED and SSL standard development activities and serves as the Chairman of the SAE Lighting Committee, past Chairman of NGLIA, past Chairman of the NEMA SSL Technical Committee, active member of IESNA Testing Procedure Committee and Roadway Lighting Committee, ANSI SSL Working Groups, Standard Technical Panel member of UL8750, and member of several other organizations.
Dr. Jiao is also an SAE Fellow and a recipient of the SAE Technical Standards Board Outstanding Contribution Award in 2008 and the Forest R. McFarland Award .He is the editor of SAE Special Publications for Lighting for the past 14 years, the Organizer and Chairman of the SAE World Congress Lighting Technology Conference since 1996, and the Organizer and Conference Chairman for SPIE Optics + Photonics since 2008.