Karen A. Panetta

Karen A. Panetta is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Tufts University and Director of the Simulation Research Laboratory at Tufts University. She is also the co-founder of BA Logix Inc. and serves as the company’s Chief Research Scientist. Dr. Panetta received a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Boston University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University.

Before joining the faculty at Tufts, Dr. Panetta worked as a computer engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. Her research in simulation and modeling won her research team five awards from NASA for “Outstanding Contributions to NASA Research” and “Excellence in Research.” She is a NASA Langley Research Scientist JOVE Fellow, a recipient of the NSF Career Award, and won the 2003 Madeline and Henry Fischer Best Engineering Teacher Award. She is the recipient of the 2006 Boston University Outstanding Alumni Award and was a recipient of the “Be the Change” award from the Massachusetts Conference for Women.

Karen is an IEEE Fellow and is the Worldwide Director of the IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE). She is the Editor-In-Chief of the award winning IEEE WIE Magazine and Editor-In-Chief of the IEEE Boston Reflector newspaper. Dr. Panetta serves on the Boston University Engineering Alumni Board and is a board member for the Center for Balance by Design.