Bonnie Ferri

Ferri majored in electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, graduating in 1981. After working in industry and taking a master's degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering at Princeton University, she came to Georgia Tech as a doctoral student in electrical engineering, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1988,^[3] the first woman there to earn a doctorate in electrical engineering.^[2]

She continued at Georgia Tech as an assistant professor,^[3] the first woman hired to a faculty position in electrical engineering.^[2] She was promoted to associate professor in 1995 and full professor in 2002.^[3]

She took her current position as vice provost (at the time Vice Provost for Graduate Education and Faculty Development) in 2017.^[4]

Ferri was the 2007 recipient of the Hewlett-Packard/Harriet B. Rigas Award of the IEEE Education Society.^[5] She was selected as the recipient of the John R. Ragazzini Award in 2022 and elected as an IEEE Fellow "for contributions to hands-on learning and leadership in higher education" in that same year.^[6]