Kevin L Lear
Colorado State University, USA
Biography
Kevin Lear is a professor and associate director of biomedical engineering at Colorado State University. He received his PhD as an Office of Naval Research Fellow at Stanford University while researching quantum tunneling devices. His subsequent work on vertical cavity surface emitting lasers at Sandia National Laboratories led to commercialization of this technology at Micro Optical Devices, Inc. where he was the chief technology officer. He joined CSU in 1999 as the Rockwell Anderson Associate Professor where his research extended from semiconductor optoelectronics to include a variety of refractive index and fluorescence optical biosensors, microfluidics, and biomedical applications.