After graduation, Li obtained a state job at an electrical-research institute, and taught English classes to groups on the side; he charged students eight yuan per month — a little more than two dollars, at the time — a fine haul in 1989.
When I was a boy, my father, who is an electrical engineer, used to do research at Caltech in the summer, and he sometimes took me to J.P.L. on weekends.
Her father is an electrical engineering research scientist there at the Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company, which specializes in cellphone technology.
"There's a huge opportunity to make an impact here," said Daniel Ling, an electrical engineer and former I.B.M. computer designer who is director of research at Microsoft and Mr. Rashid's second in command.
"This will be a platform or base of operations for us" said Tsu-Jae King Liu, a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at Berkeley, and the associate dean for research at the College of Engineering.
He helped invent the instrument, which could record electrical signals in the stomach much like an EKG records the heart's impulses, while doing research at Cambridge in the late 1930's.
Lumera's technology, based on research at the University of Washington first made public in April, relies on light-sensitive organic molecules embedded in plastic instead of metallic crystals to convert light into electrical signals.
Autism research at the University of Rochester Medical Center.
