2023: Gisele Bennett, Ph.D

Gisele Bennett, Ph.D.
Co-Founder, MEPSS LLC

Dr. Bennett is co-Founder and managing member of MEPSS LLC, a software-based startup for decision support and automation.  She has held academic, industry, and research positions for over 30 years. These positions include Senior VP for Strategic and Research Initiatives and Professor at Florida Tech, numerous positions at Georgia Tech and founding member of startups.  At Georgia Tech, she held the positions of Regents’ Researcher, Associate Vice President for Research (AVPR), Faculty Integration, and Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.  As AVPR, she was responsible for increasing research collaboration between academic and applied research. At the Georgia Tech Research Institute, she held the Glenn Robinson Chair in Electro-Optics, founded the Logistics and Maintenance Applied Research Center and as the Director for the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory grew the research portfolio from industry and DoD.

She is a member of the Army Science Board, the Editor-in-Chief for Applied Optics, a member of the Strategic Planning Committee for Optica, a member of the AIP Investment Advisory Committee, and is the 2024 Vice President for Optica.    She served on the board of directors for Optica (formally OSA) and was the President for the IEEE Council on RFID.  She is a visiting lecturer for SPIE and Optica.  Board of Trustees for Riverside Research Institute and is on the Georgia Tech Research and Economic Development External Advisory Board.  She has patents, numerous publications, and contributes to ISO in developing standards for shipping container monitoring.  She is a Fellow with Optica and SPIE.  She has received numerous awards including Superior Civilian Service Medal, Department of the Army, the second highest award of the Department of the Army and the Commander’s Award for Public Service, Department of the Army.

Dr. Bennett holds a B.S.E and MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Central Florida. She earned her PhD in Electrical Engineering and Certificate in Management of Technology from Georgia Institute of Technology.

 

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