LEDs & SSL Design

LEDs Magazine 40 Under 40 Profile: Kory Liszt

July 24, 2020

Software engineering manager Kory Liszt is having a record year due to his work on Cree Lighting's Cadiant product, which won a technology Sapphire Award and earned him Illumineer of the Year accolades as well.

Carrie Meadows,

Maury Wright

KORY LISZT. (Photo credit: Image courtesy of Cree Lighting.)

The Cadiant product from Cree Lighting is one of the truly transformational solid-state lighting (SSL) products on the market. Designed to look like a skylight recessed in the ceiling, the luminaire brings the daytime experience indoors through tunable SPD as well as spatial tuning, mimicking sun position and angle, and reflections.

Kory Liszt was one of the leaders on the Cadiant product development team and was co-winner of our Sapphire Illumineer of the Year award back in February alongside Bob Rogers. The Cadiant product also won Sapphire in the Lighting for Health and Wellbeing category and we have an interview with Liszt and Rogers in the July/August issue.

Liszt has a background in hardware development for communication systems including US Department of Defense work. He began at Cree Lighting working on connected lighting but ultimately moved into the software role, and it is the software that enables the natural light experience with the team even debating fine details such as whether a person under such light should experience morning light from the east, or perhaps from the west because it would mostly be reflected from the side panels in an actual skylight.

Liszt earned an electrical engineering degree from Western Kentucky University and volunteers through his church during his spare time.

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About the Author

Carrie Meadows | Editor-in-Chief, LEDs Magazine

Carrie Meadows has more than 20 years of experience in the publishing and media industry. She worked with the PennWell Technology Group for more than 17 years, having been part of the editorial staff at Solid State Technology, Microlithography World, Lightwave, Portable Design, CleanRooms, Laser Focus World, and Vision Systems Design before the group was acquired by current parent company Endeavor Business Media.

Meadows has received finalist recognition for LEDs Magazine in the FOLIO Eddie Awards, and has volunteered as a judge on several B2B editorial awards committees. She received a BA in English literature from Saint Anselm College, and earned thesis honors in the college's Geisel Library. Without the patience to sit down and write a book of her own, she has gladly undertaken the role of editor for the writings of friends and family.

Meadows enjoys living in the beautiful but sometimes unpredictable four seasons of the New England region, volunteering with an animal shelter, reading (of course), and walking with friends and extended "dog family" in her spare time.

About the Author

Maury Wright | Editor in Chief

Maury Wright is an electronics engineer turned technology journalist, who has focused specifically on the LED & Lighting industry for the past decade. Wright first wrote for LEDs Magazine as a contractor in 2010, and took over as Editor-in-Chief in 2012. He has broad experience in technology areas ranging from microprocessors to digital media to wireless networks that he gained over 30 years in the trade press. Wright has experience running global editorial operations, such as during his tenure as worldwide editorial director of EDN Magazine, and has been instrumental in launching publication websites going back to the earliest days of the Internet. Wright has won numerous industry awards, including multiple ASBPE national awards for B2B journalism excellence, and has received finalist recognition for LEDs Magazine in the FOLIO Eddie Awards. He received a BS in electrical engineering from Auburn University.