Seth Kessler

Dr. Kessler is the president and founder of Metis Design Corporation. He received his S.B., S.M. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering at MIT with a focus on advanced structures technologies. He worked at the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works as an advanced concepts engineer on the X33/VentureStar/JSF programs. In 1998, he received the MIT Admiral Luis De Florez Award, in 2001 was awarded the American Society for Composites (ASC) Ph.D. Research Scholarship, was a Draper Fellow in 1999 and has won best paper in 2002 from the ASC, in 2009 the PHM Society, and in 2011 from the International Workshop on Structural Health Monitoring. Dr. Kessler holds 24 patents (6 pending), has 50+ technical publications and was the chair of the SAE International Aerospace Industry Steering Committee on Structural Health Monitoring. Dr. Kessler guest lectures for advanced graduate courses on composite materials in the Aerospace Department at MIT.