Dr. Kristine Bell of Metron Inc.

Biography:

Kristine Bell is a Distinguished Fellow at Metron, Inc. and also holds an Affiliate Faculty position in the Statistics Department at George Mason University (GMU). Her technical expertise is in the area of statistical signal processing and multi-target tracking and her current focus is on cognitive and fully adaptive radar, sonar, and electronic warfare systems. She received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rice University in 1985, and the M.S. and Ph.D. from GMU in 1990 and 1995.  From 1996-2009, Dr. Bell was an Associate/Assistant Professor in the Statistics Department and C4I Center at GMU. During this time she was also a visiting researcher at the US Army Research Laboratory and the US Naval Research Laboratory.  Dr. Bell has served on the IEEE Dennis J. Picard Radar Technologies Medal Selection Committee, the IEEE Jack S. Kilby Signal Processing Medal Selection Committee, the IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Society (AESS) Fellow Evaluation Committee, and the AESS Radar Systems Panel, where she was the chair of the Student Paper Competition Committee.  She was the chair of the IEEE Signal Processing Society’s Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Technical Committee.  She received the GMU Volgenau School of IT & Engineering Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2009 and the IEEE AESS Harry Rowe Mimno Best Magazine Paper Award in 2021. She is a Fellow of IEEE.