Bonnie Ferri is the vice provost for Graduate and Postdoctoral Education at Georgia Tech, and a professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Dr. Ferri previously was the vice provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development and held associate chair positions in ECE, both for undergraduate and for graduate studies.

She has received many honors and awards including the 2017 IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award and the 2016 Regent’s Award for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. Ferri was the co-chair of a Georgia Tech campuswide commission on the future of higher education, and she was an invited speaker at a National Academy of Engineering workshop on education. Ferri has also been active with the IEEE Control Systems Society and served two terms on its Board of Governors. She was the program chair for the 1998 American Control Conference and will be the general chair for that conference in 2022.

Ferri received a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University. After earning these degrees, she worked as an engineer for Honeywell for two years before pursuing a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech. Ferri’s research interests include embedded control systems, engineering education, and real-time computing.