Emel Bulat is the Industrial and Government Liaison for ALERT (Awareness and Localization of Explosive Related Threats). For the past 9 years, she has served in this capacity where she has had the opportunity to work with many large and small businesses that are the engines of the US economy, creating industry/university partnerships that resulted in many joint proposals leading to successful technology transfer. Prior to her current position, Ms. Bulat served as Director of Emerging Technologies at Textron Systems Corporation for 14 years. She was also a principal investigator on several large government contracts in the telecommunications industry with companies such as GTE/Verizon. Her 12-year tenure at GTE Laboratories resulted in16 technical papers in solid-state sensors and semiconductor technology, two business papers on Strategic Planning, and 11 US Patents.
Bulat holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry, and MBA in Strategic Planning.