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Dr. Zvi Yaniv is the President and Chief Operating Officer of SI Diamond
Technology, Inc. (SIDT) and the President and Chief Executive Officer of and
Applied Nanotech, Inc. in Austin, TX, guiding the company to become a leader
in the display industry utilizing electron field emission from carbon
films/carbon nanotubes.
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 a M.Sc. in
electro-optics with distinction from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and
earned a M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in physics at 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 (SID). In May 1989, Dr. Yaniv was elected
Fellow of the Society for Information Display for "his innovation and
leadership in the development of large area high performance active matrix
LCDs and scanners." As a member of the SID, Dr. Yaniv founded two chapters
of the Americas Region: the Metropolitan Detroit and the Texas Chapters and
served as director of these chapters for more than ten years.
In March 2000, Dr. Yaniv was nominated and he accepted the honorific title
of Senior Research Fellow of the IC2 Institute of University of Texas.
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