Dr. Zvi Yaniv
Vitae
Dr. Zvi Yaniv is the President and Chief
Operating Officer of SI Diamond Technology, Inc. (SIDT) in Austin, TX, guiding
the company to become a leader in the display industry utilizing electron
field emission from diamond/carbon films.
Dr. Yaniv is an authority in
electro-optics, liquid crystal technology, amorphous semiconductors,
technology commercialization and business management. He has
published over 100 articles, holds more than 50 patents, and has extensive
contacts in the U.S., Europe, Israel and the Far East.
Dr. Zvi Yaniv was a founder of Kent
Display Systems in Kent, Ohio, the "no-power" reflective LCD Company
and of OIS Optical Imaging Systems, Inc. in Novi, Michigan. As
President and CEO of OIS, Inc., he led the company during its years of
development and initial commercialization of advanced active matrix liquid
crystal displays and amorphous silicon image sensors. While at OIS,
Dr. Yaniv was one of the founders of Unipac, currently one of the premier
display companies in Taiwan.
Earlier, Dr. Yaniv held ranking positions
with the Practical Engineering College, Beer-Sheeba; National Institute
for Technical Training, Tel-Aviv; and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
In 1999, Dr. Yaniv introduced a new
expression of kinetic art (Digital Window™), allowing static
two- or three- dimensional artworks to become dynamic and interactive.
Dr. Yaniv holds a B.Sc. in
physics/mathematics and an M.Sc. in electro-optics with distinction from
the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in
physics from Kent State University. He has received awards from both
universities and the Scientific Research Society. Dr.
Yaniv is a member of the Board of Directors of SIDT, Inc. and of the
Society for Information Display for "his innovation and leadership in
the development of large area high performance active matrix LCDs and
scanners."
In March 2000, Dr. Yaniv was nominated
and he accepted the honorific title of Senior Research Fellow of the IC2
Institute of the University of Texas. |
