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Co-Director • Instructor
Pacific Northwest National Lab

Bob Davis joined Pacific Northwest National Lab in 2013 as Senior Staff Lighting Engineer, where his responsibilities include directing the GATEWAY Demonstration program. His 30+ years in lighting include experience with a large multi-national lamp manufacturer and with a small employee-owned luminaire manufacturer, where he led the new product development, engineering, and marketing teams.  For more than 15 years, Dr. Davis taught and conducted research in lighting as a faculty member at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute’s Lighting Research Center and in the Architectural Engineering program at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Davis is a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, and a recipient of the New York State Governor’s Award for Energy Excellence. He serves as Chairman of the RMLA Advisory Board, Chairman of the IES Research Symposium Committee, and on the Board of Directors of the Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education. He has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architectural Engineering from Penn State, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Cognitive Psychology from the University of Colorado.