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JD Albert is an American engineer, educator, and inventor. He is currently the Director of Engineering at Bresslergroup, a research-driven product innovation lab and consultancy in Philadelphia. He is also a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's Integrated Product Design program.

Career
Along with Barrett Comiskey, he developed the E Ink electronic paper display and cofounded its distributor, the E Ink Corporation. The two invented E Ink while they were undergraduates at MIT. MIT Media Lab professor Joseph Jacobson recruited them to create a technology that mimicked pages in a book.

As Albert told Science Friday, "It was really true experimental discovery. ... We had ideas, we were doing a lot of research, reading a lot of patents — many of which were expired patents — recreating experiments, and really, truly forging ahead to make this thing work. It involved a lot of prototypes, and it involved a huge amount of failed experiments." In 1997, after years of research and experimentation, Comiskey and fellow MIT undergraduate JD Albert realized a working prototype.

Albert contributed a chapter on design thinking for early-stage startups to the book Design Thinking: New Product Development Essentials from the PDMA. He has also contributed articles about product development to Entrepreneur.com and Wired.

In 2016, Albert was one of the youngest inventors to ever be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.

Personal life and education
Albert has a Bachelor's of Science in Mechanical Engineering from MIT. He lives in Philadelphia.