Ioannis (John) Kymissis

Ioannis (John) Kymissis is an electrical engineer who specializes in the processing and integration of thin film devices with sensing, actuation, and optoelectronic properties. His work has particularly focused on the use of organic semiconductors and inorganic materials that can be processed at low temperatures.

He obtained his S.B., M.Eng., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1998, 1999,and 2003, respectively. His M.Eng. research was conducted as part of a cooperative research program with IBM Research in Yorktown Heights, New York and in Yamato, Japan. Following a post-doc at MIT and a year as a consulting engineer at QDVision, he joined the faculty of Columbia University in the department of Electrical Engineering in 2006.

He has co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed publications, holds 9 US patents, and is the author of one book, “Organic Field Effect Transistors: theory, fabrication, and characterization,” published by Springer in 2009.

John has won a number of awards for his work including the NSF CAREER award, the Interdigital Innovation Prize, the Vodaphone Americas Foundation Innovation prize, the MIT/DOE Clean Energy Prize, the IVMC Shoulders/Spindt/Grey award, and the IEEE EDS Paul Rappaport Award.

John serves as the editor in chief of the Journal of the Society of Information display, is the technical program committee chair for the 2013 Device Research conference, and serves on the advisory boards for a number of small companies. He is a member of the IEEE EDS Adcomm and also serves on the board of directors for the Society for Information Display.