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Society of Information Display Announces 2023 Board of Directors

The Society for Information Display (SID) is pleased to announce its 2023 board of directors. SID is the only professional organization dedicated to the worldwide electronic display and visual information technology industries, and plays a vital role in advancing the plethora of interwoven discoveries and applications from concept and research to manufacturing and market.

The SID Board of Directors consists of the elected officers (president, president-elect, treasurer, secretary), the immediate past president and seven regional vice presidents. Together, these leaders form and execute the vision of the organization through a multitude of activities, including global conferences, symposia, and career development and learning opportunities that propagate and support today’s innovations and tomorrow’s discoveries that affect the way we live, work and play.

The 2023 Board of Directors are:

Executive BoardOffice
 Takatoshi Tsujimura, General Manager OLED Business Unit, Konica MinoltaPast President
Achintya Bhowmik, CTO and EVP of Engineering, Starkey; Adjunct Professor, Stanford UniversityPresident
Ioannis (John) Kymissis, Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia UniversityPresident-Elect
Qun (Frank ) Yan, Professor of Fuzhou UniversityTreasurer
Harit Doshi, President and CEO at Omniply Technologies Inc.Secretary

Regional Vice Presidents
Bryan Chan, Senior Director, E Ink CorporationRegional Vice President, Bay Area
Samantha Phenix, Chair, AVIXARegional Vice President, Pacific and South Americas
Marina Kondakova, Director, Device Formulations, OLEDWorksRegional Vice President, East Americas
Norbert Fruehauf, Chair/Display Technology, University of StuttgartRegional Vice President, Europe
Haruhiko Okumura, Chief Research Scientist, Toshiba CorporationRegional Vice President, Japan
Junbiao Peng, Professor, Dean, School of Materials Science and Engineering, South China University of TechnologyRegional Vice President, Cross Strait
Hyun Jae Kim, Professor at Yonsei UniversityRegional Vice President, remaining regions in Asia

Executive officers serve two-year terms, and require a 10-year commitment before ascending to their role. Regional vice presidents may serve two terms for a total of four years, and stand for election every year. 

SID currently has 5,251 members, with 27 chapters and 13 student branches throughout the world.

Among SID’s most anticipated annual events is Display Week. Display Week is considered the world’s largest technical symposium and exhibition for emerging technologies in the high-growth global electronic display and visual information industries. Display Week 2023, SID’s 60th International Symposium, Seminar and Exhibition will be held in Los Angeles, CA, May 21-26, 2023.