Felicia Reinhart

Felicia Reinhart

Director, IEEE Region 2

Felicia Reinhart currently serves on the IEEE Board of Directors which is the largest technical professional society in the world dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity. As a director, she also oversees Region 2, one of the 10 Regions that span the globe. Her role also includes serving on the IEEE Board of Directors, the IEEE Member and Geographic Activities Board, and the IEEE-USA Board.

Felicia retired in 2024 after a 32-year career that included 18 years at the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) and her retirement from active duty in the US Air Force in 2005. She started out in the AFRL Information Directorate working on distributed collaborative systems, then moved on to the AFRL Sensors Directorate where her research included developing cyber protections for avionics systems. She concluded her career as a security research engineer developing technology tools and solutions for the Department of Defense security & intelligence community. Her diversified experience included managing a $10M state-of-the-art lab supporting multiple in-house research missions and to her last focus on managing a multimillion-dollar digital transformation effort to serve the Air Force Security community enterprise.

She received her B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Central Florida (summa cum laude) and her M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology. She lives in Beavercreek, OH with her husband, Tod and dog, Bixby.