BOON OOI

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Program Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Director, Technology Innovation Center for Solid State Lighting at KAUST

Principal Investigator, Photonics Laboratory
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Title: Laser-based Gbps Visible Light Communication

Areas of expertise and current scientific interests

Boon Ooi’s recent research is concerned with the study of III-Nitride based materials and devices, and lasers for applications such as solid-state lighting, visible light and underwater wireless optical communications, energy harvesting devices, and optical sensors.

Career recognitions

Boon Ooi is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and the Institute of Physics (U.K.).

Professional and editorial activities

He is a regular grant panelist and reviewer of NSF (USA), NSERC (Canada), A*STAR and NRF (Singapore), Dutch Technology Foundation STW (Netherlands), FPS (Poland), ELIDEK (Greece), RGC (Hong Kong), QNRF (Qatar) and KACST (KSA). He has been the organizing chair for several IEEE, OSA, SPIE and MRS conferences, and served on the technical program committee of CLEO, IPC, Photonics West, ISLC, and IEDM. In KSA, he founded the IEEE Photonics Society Western Saudi Arabia Chapter and has been serving as the Chapter Chair since 2010. He was the Guest Editor for the Journal Crystal Growth (Elsevier) in 2006/7, and Applied Physics A (Springer) in 2013/14, and Lead Editor of a Feature Issue of Optics Express with 2018/2019. 

He has served on the editorial board of the OSA Optics Express, IEEE Photonics Journal, and SPIE Journal of Nanophotonics