As Assistant Vice President, Dr. Ben Benokraitis supports the Executive Vice President in coordinating the execution and administration of WTEC programs, studies, and workshops, including the activities of ScienceUS.org.

 Before joining WTEC, Inc. in 2007, Ben Benokraitis served as Director of Graduate Programs in Computing and Associate Chair of the Computer Science Department at Loyola College in Maryland. In academia, Ben Benokraitis also established the computer science curriculum at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia and chaired its Department of Computer and Information Sciences. In industry, Ben Benokraitis managed programs in computing and software development at AAI Corporation, RCA Advanced Technology Laboratories, and Martin Marietta Baltimore Aerospace. In government, Ben Benokraitis worked as a mathematician for the Ballistic Research Laboratory at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland.

 Ben Benokraitis has extensive experience in software engineering, artificial intelligence, scientific computing, and a broad range of computing environments. He authored more than two dozen technical reports and papers. Ben Benokraitis holds a Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dr. Ben Benokraitis
 Assistant VP