Dr. Gary Butler - [ Assistant Vice President for Research and Technology Development ]
Dr. Gary D. Butler is Assistant Vice President for Research and Technology Development at Mississippi State University where he is responsible for leading advanced research initiatives and building the university's strategic relationships with major industry and government partners. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (Churchill College) and is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Previously, Dr. Butler was a senior member of the technical staff of Cambridge, Massachusetts based BBN Technologies (the company credited with launching the ARPANET) where he generated more than $19M of DARPA research awards and was the principle investigator on advanced technology development programs in the areas of low power, long-endurance unattended ground sensor networks; ultra-wideband communications and radar; and advanced signal processing technologies.
Additionally, Dr. Butler was elected for membership in BBN's Science Development Program, a rank representing the top 10% of the company's technical staff, and received BBN's annual best DARPA revenue award. He has co-authored publications on the application of wavelets to signal analysis and has been awarded patents related to the application of genetic algorithms to signal classification and multi-static ultra-wideband radar signal processing. Dr. Butler is a member of the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society, IEEE Circuits and Systems Society and IEEE Communications Society.
Dr. Butler received his B.S. degree from Tulane University in Mechanical Engineering where he was a four-time varsity football letterman and named an NCAA and Entergy Corporation Winning for Life Scholar Athlete. He completed his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering at Vanderbilt University.