Jonathan Benson

Jonathan Benson is a highly experienced Senior Scientist and Leidos Technical Fellow at Leidos, with a focus on advanced physics-based radar and ladar systems for automatic target recognition in the AFRL OPERA program. Prior to this role, Jonathan served as a Senior Scientist at SAIC, where recognition from NASA was awarded for work on algorithms that detect debris from the Space Shuttle and contributed to a pending Government patent application. Earlier in his career, Jonathan conducted research as a Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, focusing on acoustic imaging, and worked as an Electrical Engineer for the US Army Corps of Engineers, where Jonathan developed algorithms for military noise monitoring. Jonathan holds a PhD, MS, and BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.