William D. Jemison received the BSEE degree from Lafayette College in 1985, the MESc degree from Penn State University in 1988, and the Ph.D. degree from Drexel University in 1993.  In 1996 he joined the faculty of Lafayette College where he has taught courses and laboratories in electromagnetics, semiconductor devices, microwave systems, fiber optics, electronics, control systems, circuits, freshman engineering and senior design.  Prior to 1996 Dr. Jemison worked for eleven years in the fields of phased array radar and microwave system design as a senior engineer and project manager at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Orbit/FR.  Dr. Jemison has authored or co-authored approximately sixty papers, co-authored two book chapters, is the recipient of three U.S. patents, and has been a principal investigator for multiple grants from the National Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research.  He received the Chief of Naval Research Certificate of Commendation for his work on a solid state phased array radar program from the US Navy and the Carl R. and Ingeborg Beidleman Research Award for excellence in applied research from Lafayette College.  Dr. Jemison also has received several awards from the Lehigh Valley Section of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for his work as the Branch Counselor to the Lafayette College Student Branch of the IEEE.

His current research interests are in the areas of microwave photonic systems, microwave circuits and antennas and he has involved nineteen Lafayette students in his work as undergraduate research assistants.  He is an active member of the Microwave Theory & Techniques Society of the IEEE and currently serves as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Microwaves Magazine and as a technical program committee member for several technical conferences including the IEEE International Microwave Symposium and International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics.  He was recently elected a Fellow of the IEEE.