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Dr. Jepsen has been an active researcher and innovator in liquid crystal on silicon (LCOS) display technology since 1995. She was most recently Director of Technology Development in Intels Display Division where she oversaw product design, development, research, Q&R testing, and manufacturing technologies, as well as planning Intels future in consumer electronics. LCOS was a high-profile test-program at Intel that brought Dr. Jepsen into frequent contact with the firms executive management. Intel recently decided to exit LCOS as the firm focuses on its traditional core competencies.
Previously Dr. Jepsen co-founded the MicroDisplay Corporation and served as its Chief Technology Officer. In eight years there, she managed two engineering groups and was part of the small executive management group that ran the company and raised several rounds of VC finance ($50M).
Dr. Jepsens principal technical contributions to LCOS are in liquid crystal mode development, LCOS panel drive scheme design, and optical engine architecture design. Her focus during recent few years has been on single-panel LCOS systems, and her leadership in this area has brought her world-wide recognition as a top innovator in the industry. She produced groundbreaking results in manufacturing process improvement, combined with real strength in the sales and marketing side of high-tech business.
Prior to entering the microdisplay field in the mid-90s, Dr. Jepsen contributed to several breakthroughs in diffractive optics and holographic display technology including building the worlds first holographic video system (at MITs Media Lab), and the largest hologram in the world, one that spanned a city block (in Cologne). Her PhD work combined rigorous theoretical coupled-wave analysis with lab work, in which she created large-scale, embossed surface-relief diffraction gratings with liquid crystal-filled grooves. These structures achieved greater than 90% diffraction efficiency with randomly polarized light over wide angular and spectral ranges.
Dr. Jepsen holds a PhD in Optics, BS in Electrical Engineering and BA req. in Studio Art all from Brown University. She also holds an MS in Media Studies from the MIT Media Lab. She was an assistant professor of Computer Science at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Australia.
Principal fields of interest:
Microdisplays, liquid-crystal-on-silicon devices, diffractive optics, polarization optics, display system design and optimization, opto/electro/mechanical systems, novel display technology, holography, computer graphics, video encoding, imaging systems, low cost optical systems.
