Daniel  Feezell

Daniel Feezell is a Professor, Regents’ Lecturer, and Associate Chair (Graduate Programs) in the ECE Department at UNM. He is also a member of the Center for High Technology Materials and affiliated with the Optical Science and Engineering program. He received the Ph.D. degree in 2005 from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). Prior to joining UNM, he was a Project Scientist in the Solid-State Lighting and Energy Center at UCSB and worked for Soraa, a GaN-based LED and laser start-up company. His research includes epitaxial growth using metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) and fabrication of group-III nitrides, high-efficiency and high-speed LEDs, nanoscale selective-area epitaxy, semiconductor lasers, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs), and wide-bandgap power electronics. He has authored or co-authored over 150 journal and conference publications and holds more than 30 U.S. patents. Dr. Feezell received an NSF CAREER award in 2015 and a DARPA Young Faculty Award in 2013. Dr. Feezell’s projects have been funded by DOE, DOD, DARPA, ARPA-E, NSF, DTRA, and the commercial sector. He is a Senior Member of IEEE.