Dr. Gary Butler - [ Director of Technology ]
Dr. Gary D. Butler is Director of Technology, Office of Research and Economic Development at Mississippi State University. Dr. Butler received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge (Churchill College) and is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Prior to his employment at Mississippi State, Dr. Butler was a senior member of the technical staff of BBN Technologies (formerly Bolt, Beranek and Newman, the company credited with launching the ARPANET) where he led several DARPA and ONR funded advanced technology development programs in the areas of low power, long-endurance unattended ground sensor networks; ultra-wideband radar; and advanced signal processing technologies. He has co-authored journal articles and conference papers on the application of wavelets to signal analysis and has patents pending on 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 the American Association for Artificial Intelligence.
A native Mississippian, 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.