Maïté Brandt-Pearce

Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs
Address

P.O. Box 400308

Booker House

Charlottesville, VA 22904-4308

Maïté Brandt-Pearce is the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs and a Professor of Electrical Engineering. She is responsible for coordinating the entire faculty life-cycle and helping the twelve schools with their faculty concerns.

Full Bio

The Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs develops and implements faculty policies, oversees the promotion and tenure process at the University, directs faculty development programming, assists faculty in addressing dual career issues, and coordinates efforts to ensure diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Brandt-Pearce is a graduate of Rice University, where she earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering, after which she worked with Lockheed in support of NASA Johnson Space Center. She then returned to Rice and earned an M.E.E. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Brandt-Pearce joined the University of Virginia faculty in 1993 and the Provost’s Office in 2018. Her primary teaching and research interests are optical communications, specifically visible light communications and cross-layer design of fiber optic networks. Brandt-Pearce is a Fellow of the IEEE and the recipient of an NSF CAREER Award. She is a co-recipient of Best Paper Awards at ICC 2006 and GLOBECOM 2012 and has over 200 technical publications.