Chair
Gisele Bennett
Dr. Gisele Bennett is a Regents’ Researcher, an Associate Vice President for Research, Faculty Integration, and a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). She is the Glenn Robinson Chair in Electro-Optics at the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI). She founded the Logistics and Maintenance Applied Research Center (LandMARC), a multi-disciplinary center at the Georgia Tech. She is a Fellow in the Optical Society (OSA) and SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) and a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta kappa Nu and is on the Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM) RFID Experts Advisory Group (REG). She holds officer positions in OSA and IEEE and serves in a variety of professional activities. She has been a topical and is a feature editor for Applied Optics, a feature editor for Optical Engineering, and an associate editor for International Journal of RF Technologies: Research and Applications. She is a visiting lecturer for SPIE and OSA. She has over 130 publications in books or book chapters, refereed journals, technical reports, and workshops. Her research interests are broad and include coherence theory applications to optical imaging systems, atmospheric turbulence and wave propagation, RFID and secure supply chain technologies. She holds Patents on Integrated Sensor Radio Frequency Identification (ISRFID) with Location and container security devices, has numerous patents pending related to container security, decision support systems, and a Copyright on a computer model for Wave Propagation through the atmosphere.