John Lam, PhD

John Lam received his B.Sc., M.Sc. (Eng) and Ph.D. degrees from Queen’s University in 2003, 2006 and 2010 respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. For his doctoral research, he focused on the development of low cost, compact and high performance dimmable electronic ballast circuits for compact fluorescent lamp (CFL). Patents are pending for his doctoral works. He has over 6 years of research experience in the field of power electronics, in particular, has experience in designing high frequency power converters for green energy applications. He was involved in building experimental prototypes; conducting circuit testing on experimental prototypes and doing product development. In 2010, he received the MITACS Elevate Industrial Fellowship and is currently working with Cistel Technology in Ottawa and the Queen’s Center for Energy and Power Electronics Research (ePOWER) Laboratory to develop intelligent lighting solutions.