Jeffry Bulson

Jeff Bulson – VP of Development

Jeff Bulson manages company-wide R&D activities including research, process development, product development, and transition to manufacturing of Microplasma lighting products. He is the acting director of the EPI Innovation Laboratory in Champaign, IL. Mr. Bulson joined EPI in March 2009.

With 25 years experience in experimental physics and electrical engineering, Mr. Bulson's background includes over a decade spent with the Panasonic Plasma Display Laboratory in New York. Here he led the Vacuum and Thin Films Process Development Group which developed several metal and dielectric thin film processes in addition to various innovative techniques for the measurement of thin films. Previous to Panasonic, Mr. Bulson held R&D positions in other laboratories including Materials Research Corp. where he developed thin film sputtering cathodes for tools used in the manufacture of microelectronics, Liebert Corp. where he established and managed their R&D laboratory, and Mission Research Corp. where he performed research in the area of electromagnetic effects testing. He has over 30 journal and conference contributions and four patents, and is a Senior Member of IEEE. Mr. Bulson received a B.S. in physics from Siena College and an M.S. in experimental plasma physics from the University of Iowa.