Dr. Ioannis Kymissis

Biography

Ioannis Kymissis is the Kenneth Brayer Professor and Chair of the Electrical Engineering Department at Columbia Engineering. He teaches courses related to solid state devices and display technology. Kymissis earned his SB, MEng, and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he was involved in a cooperative program and completed his M.Eng. thesis at IBM Research. After his studies, he held a postdoctoral appointment at MIT and worked as a consulting engineer at QDVision before joining Columbia University. His research primarily focuses on the fabrication, characterization, and applications of thin film electronics, with a particular emphasis on organic semiconductors, thin film piezoelectric devices, and recrystallized silicon devices. In addition to his research and teaching responsibilities, he is active in the Society for Information Display and the IEEE Electron Devices Society.

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