JD Albert

JD Albert is an American engineer, educator, and inventor. He is currently the Director of Engineering at Bresslergroup,[1] a research-driven product innovation lab and consultancy in Philadelphia. He is also a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's IPD program.

Career

In 2016 Albert was one of the youngest inventors to ever be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.[2][3]

Along with Barrett Comiskey, he developed the E Ink display. The two invented E Ink while they were undergraduates at MIT. MIT Media Lab professor Joseph Jacobson recruited them to create a technology that mimicked pages in a book. As Albert told Science Friday,[4] "It was really true experimental discovery. ... We had ideas, we were doing a lot of research, reading a lot of patents — many of which were expired patents — recreating experiments, and really, truly forging ahead to make this thing work. It involved a lot of prototypes, and it involved a huge amount of failed experiments." In 1997, after years of research and experimentation, Comiskey and fellow MIT undergraduate JD Albert realized a working prototype.

As Director of Engineering at product design and development firm, Bresslergroup, Albert helps clients realize their own visions for innovative products.

Albert contributed a chapter on design thinking for early-stage startups to the book Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA.[5] He has also contributed articles about product development to Entrepreneur.com[6] and Wired.[7]

Personal Life and Education

Albert has a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering[8] from MIT. He lives in Philadelphia.

References

  1. ↑ "Bresslergroup". Bresslergroup. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  2. ↑ "Spotlight | National Inventors Hall of Fame". invent.org. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  3. ↑ "JD Albert in Inventors Hall of Fame | Bresslergroup News". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  4. ↑ "How Electronic Ink Was Invented - Science Friday". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  5. ↑ Luchs, Michael G.; Swan, Scott; Griffin, Abbie (2015-11-02). Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA (1 edition ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781118971802.
  6. ↑ Albert, JD. "JD Albert". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  7. ↑ Bresslergroup, JD Albert,. "Not Just for Coders: Hackathons for Hardware Innovation". Retrieved 2016-09-01.
  8. ↑ "LinkedIn".


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