Fred Kish

About

Fred A. Kish, received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1988, 1989, and 1992, respectively. His Ph.D. research work (under Nick Holonyak, Jr.) is part of the core Al-bearing III-V native-oxide technology that has enabled the development of the highest performance VCSELs and has been licensed to VCSEL manufacturers throughout the world. From 1992-1999, he was at Hewlett-Packard where he co-invented and led the commercialization of the highest performance (efficiency) red-orange-yellow visible LEDs produced at the time (wafer-bonded transparent-substrate AlGaInP LEDs). The efficiencies of these devices exceeded those of incandescent and halogen lamps with products based on this technology resulting in over $2B

Education

• Ph.D. 1992 Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Master's 1989 Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Bachelor's 1988 Electrical EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign