COWA Faculty

Faculty New dated 3.24.2014 Dr. Tai-Yin Huang, associate professor of physics, has accepted the invitation to join the Center on Optical Wireless Applications (COWA) to become their 14th faculty member (http://cowa.psu.edu/Faculty_Members.html). Under the auspices of the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) and the Georgia Institute of Technology (GT) are collaborating in an Industry/University Cooperative Research Center on Optical Wireless Applications (http://cowa.psu.edu/Home.html). COWA has 14 faculty members from PSU and GT and 11 industry members. Notably, Dr. Huang is the only female faculty from PSU at the Center. Dr. Huang currently owns 17 patents (5 pending) on LED lighting technology and an LED lighting company Andromeda LED Lighting. Collaborations are anticipated in the research area of wireless communication via visible spectrum of LED lighting in lighting applications.