Dr. Dayan Ban

Dayan Ban is a Professor of Nanotechnology Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Waterloo. He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2003. During 2001-2002, he was a visiting scientist at Nortel Networks Optical Components, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Ban was on staff at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences of the National Research Council, Ottawa, from Sept. 2002 to Oct. 2005. He was a visiting scientist at the Research Lab of Electronics at MIT, Boston, US in 2009. Dr. Ban is a senior member of IEEE/LEOS and a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario. His research interests include optoelectronic devices, quantum cascade lasers, energy harvesting devices as well as scanning probe
microscopy technique. Dr. Ban has authored or coauthored over 220 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and has contributed 2 book chapters and 13 patents/patent applications.