Maïté Brandt-Pearce is an American optical engineer and academic administrator, the vice provost for faculty affairs at the University of Virginia, where she also holds a professorship in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Her research concerns optical networking and fiber-optic communication.
Education and career
Brandt-Pearce majored in electrical engineering at Rice University, graduating in 1985.[1] She then worked for several years for Lockheed Corporation, at NASA's Johnson Space Center.[2] Returning to Rice for graduate study, she earned a master's degree in 1989 and completed her Ph.D. in 1993.[1] Her dissertation, High-Throughput Optical Code-Division Multiple Access Communication Systems, was supervised by Behnaam Aazhang.[3]
She has been a faculty member at the University of Virginia since 1993.[1] She became executive associate dean of engineering in 2015, and joined the office of the provost at the University of Virginia in 2018.[2] She is also a co-founder of optical communications spinoff firm VLNComm.[2][4]
Recognition
Brandt-Pearce was Jubilee Professor in 2014 at Chalmers University in Sweden.[1] She was elected as an IEEE Fellow, in the 2023 class of fellows, "for contributions to optical wireless and fiber communications".[5]
References
- ^ a b c d "Maïté Brandt-Pearce, Ph.D.: Bio", Faculty, University of Virginia Engineering, retrieved 2023-06-22
- ^ a b c "Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs: Maïté Brandt-Pearce", Staff, University of Virginia Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, retrieved 2023-06-22
- ^ Maïté Brandt-Pearce at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Dabhi, Nisha (April 6, 2017), "Is 'Li-Fi' set to replace Wi-Fi? VLNComm looks to LED technology to provide better network", Cavalier Daily, retrieved 2023-06-22
- ^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2023-06-22
External links
- Maïté Brandt-Pearce publications indexed by Google Scholar
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