Fred Wright (researcher)

Fred Wright
Nationality American
Fields Cyber and electronic warfare systems
Institutions

Georgia Institute of Technology,

Georgia Tech Research Institute
Alma mater

Memphis State University (BS),

Georgia Institute of Technology (MS, PhD)

George A. "Fred" Wright is the chief engineer and principal research engineer of the Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory (CTISL) at the Georgia Tech Research Institute.[1] Wright was named chief engineer and deputy director of CTISL upon its creation as GTRI's eighth laboratory in 2010.[1] He was named interim director in 2014 upon director Bo Rotoloni's acceptance of the position of deputy director of GTRI's Information & Cyber Sciences division until Andrew Howard was selected to be the division's new director later that year.[2] His research focuses on cyber and electronic warfare systems, particularly distributed control and intelligence systems.[1][3] Wright is also an adjunct professor of computer science at Georgia Institute of Technology.[1]

Education

Wright holds three degrees, including a B.S. in electrical engineering from Memphis State University earned in 1986, and an M.S. and PhD in electrical engineering, both from Georgia Tech, awarded in 1987 and 1996, respectively.[3]

Career

Wright joined GTRI as a research engineer in the Electronic Systems Laboratory in 1987.[1] Prior to the creation of the Cyber Technology and Information Security Laboratory (CTISL), where he was named deputy director and chief engineer, Wright was chief engineer of ELSYS.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "George A. "Fred" Wright". Georgia Tech Professional Education. Retrieved 2014-10-13.
  2. ↑ "GTRI Names Andrew Howard Director of Cyber Security Laboratory". Georgia Tech Research Institute. Retrieved 2014-10-23.
  3. 1 2 "Dr. Fred Wright". EU Science: Global Challenges Global Collaboration Conference. Retrieved 2014-10-13.
  4. ↑ "Dr. George A. (Fred) Wright, Chief Engineer, Electronic Systems Laboratory ,presents Counter Sensors: Creating Information Inferiority at the GTRI 75th Anniversary Technology Symposium". GTRI Historical Archive. Georgia Tech Research Institute. Retrieved 2015-03-06.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Tuesday, September 29, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.