Kathleen A. Kramer is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, USA. She is a Distinguished Lecturer for IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Society (AESS) and chaired its technical panel on Cyber Security (2017-2019, 2020-2022). She has worked as a Member of Technical Staff doing research at several companies including ViaSat, Hewlett Packard, and Bell Communications Research. Her technical interests are in multisensor data fusion and applications of neural and fuzzy systems to navigation and data security. She is also internationally known as a leader in accreditation and has been named a Fellow of ABET for contributions to engineering accreditation criteria in graduate programs, robotics and mechatronics, and cyber security. She received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering magna cum laude with a second major in physics from Loyola Marymount University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.  

A leader within IEEE, she chairs the 2023 IEEE Ad Hoc on Innovating Funding Models. She served as the 2019-21 IEEE Secretary & Director – and in that role led governance for the over 400,000 member global organization.  She is a past IEEE Director for Region 6 (Western USA). She serves as the AESS society liaison to the IEEE Women in Engineering Committee and is an active leader-volunteer advancing related goals with related WIE society- and council-based efforts, including Women in Systems, Women in Control, and Women in Nanotechnology.