M. George Craford is an American electrical engineer known for his work in Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs).Craford received his MS (1963) and PhD (1967) degrees in physics from the University of Illinois in 1967, began his professional career at the Monsanto Chemical Company, then in 1979 joined Hewlett Packard, where in 1982 he became the research and development manager of the HP Optoelectronics Division.When Lumileds Lighting (now Philips Lumileds Lighting Company) spun out from HP in 1999, Craford was named the company's Chief Technical Officer (CTO).He won Charles Stark Draper Prize in 2015 for the invention, development, and commercialization of materials and processes for light-emitting diodes (LEDs).