RIT/NTID Professor Emeritus Jean-Guy Naud has more than 43 years of college teaching experience in applied photography and imaging and held various administrative and program leadership roles, consulted for industry and government, and chaired major committees. He began teaching analog photography at RIT’s School of Photographic Arts and Sciences in 1968, and transferred to NTID in 1969. In 1975-76, he worked with the National Film Board of Canada as a technical advisor for the official film of the 1976 Summer Olympics.

At NTID, he focused on analog photography and digital imaging, co-authoring the initial applied photography program and helping design photographic facilities in Lyndon Baines Johnson Hall. He served as chair of the photo and media technologies department from 1984 to 2005 and participated in several exhibitions and presentations. Jean-Guy contributed to shared governance, serving on the Faculty Council and chairing committees, including the Resource Allocation and Budget Committee and the Faculty Grievance Committee. He received tenure in 1975, was awarded the NTID National Advisory Group Award in 1981, and became a professor in 1984, attaining emeritus status in 2011 upon retirement.

He earned a bachelor of science in professional photography in 1968 and master of science in printing technology in 1975, both from RIT. He also studied commercial photography at Brooks Institute from 1962 to 1964.

He enjoys travel photography, using his flight simulator—he holds a PPL FAA certificate, and listening to shortwave radio, having logged over 121 countries. He is also a founding member of the Sentinel Society at RIT.