J. G. Naeini has been a physics faculty at two campuses of the University of North Carolina (UNCC & WSSU) since 2002. He has an extensive record of using Raman spectroscopy for material characterization and biodiagnostics. His MSc research, at Simon Fraser University (SFU), involved materials for Li-batteries. His PhD research, also at SFU, involved high-temperature superconductors. He used near-IR spectroscopy to measure cerebral blood flow during his 1st postdoctoral fellowship (PDF) at the University of Western Ontario. His 2nd PDF was at the University of Toronto, where he developed a confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscope. He has the experience of leading an R&D team at a fiber optics devices start-up in Canada (Resonance Photonics Inc.). He co-founded Lanthanides Technologies LLC, initially as a Research & Development company, to offer novel solutions for separating and purifying rare-earth materials. His long-term goals target new technologies, novel materials, advanced characterization, sensors, communication devices, and bioanalytics.