Maïté Brandt-Pearce
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Maïté Brandt-Pearce is an American optical engineer and academic administrator, the vice provost for faculty affairs at the University of Virginia, where she also holds a professorship in the Department of Electrical Engineering. Her research concerns optical networking and fiber-optic communication.
Brandt-Pearce majored in electrical engineering at Rice University, graduating in 1985.[1] She then worked for several years for Lockheed Corporation, at NASA's Johnson Space Center.[2] Returning to Rice for graduate study, she earned a master's degree in 1989 and completed her Ph.D. in 1993.[1] Her dissertation, High-Throughput Optical Code-Division Multiple Access Communication Systems, was supervised by Behnaam Aazhang.[3]
She has been a faculty member at the University of Virginia since 1993.[1] She became executive associate dean of engineering in 2015, and joined the office of the provost at the University of Virginia in 2018.[2] She is also a co-founder of optical communications spinoff firm VLNComm.[2][4]
