from the College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida and a 1995 Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering.
[1][3][4] After earning her Ph.D., Bennett began working at GTRI as a research scientist in 1996 and as a professor in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1997.
She is a Fellow at Optica and the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
She has held officer positions at Optica and IEEE and serves in a variety of professional activities involving optical engineering research.
In 2017, she won the Progress and Service Award for Sustained Impact in Administration from the Georgia Tech Research Corporation.