Speaker: Dr. Zhengrong Shi, Founder, Chairman and CEO of SUNTECH
Dr. Zhengrong Shi is the founder, chairman of the board of directors and CEO of Suntech Power. Prior to founding Suntech in 2001, he was a research director and executive director of Pacific Solar Pty., Ltd. from 1995 to 2001. From 1992 to 1995, he was a senior research scientist and the leader of the Thin Film Solar Cells Research Group in the Centre of Excellence for Photovoltaic Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Australia. Dr. Shi is the inventor for 15 patents in PV technologies and has published or presented a number of articles and papers in PV-related scientific magazines and at conferences. Dr. Shi received a bachelor?s degree in optical science from Changchun University of Science and Technology in China in 1983, a master's degree in laser physics from the Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1986, and a Ph.D degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales in Australia in 1992.

About Suntech: Founded in 2001, Suntech is the world's largest producer of silicon solar modules and it develops, manufactures, and delivers the world?s most reliable and cost-effective solar energy solutions. Suntech offer clean power for every application and market, from off-grid systems, to homes, to the world's largest solar power plants. Its solar modules are installed in over 80 countries.

Open to: the general public

Sponsor(s): MIT China Energy and Envrionment Research Group, MIT Energy Initiative, MIT Energy Club