Gordon Day

Gordon W. Day
Director of Government Relations

Gordon Day received his education (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.) in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois. For 33 years he conducted and managed research at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, participating in some of the Institute's best known programs in optoelectronics: metrology for optical fiber communications, the development of optical fiber sensors, laser radiometry, and a determination of the speed of light that led eventually to a redefinition of the meter. From 1994 until his retirement in 2003, he served as the first Division Chief of the NIST Optoelectronics Division.

He is a Past President of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), and has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Colorado and the Colorado School of Mines, a Visiting Fellow at the University of Southampton, and a visiting scholar at the University of Sydney. In 2005, he was an IEEE Congressional Fellow, serving as a science advisor to Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. In addition to his position with OIDA, he presently serves as a consultant to private sector and government clients on both science policy and optoelectronics technology. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the OSA, and the Institute of Physics (UK).

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