Dr. Tommer Ender is the Deputy Director for Research for the Electronics, Systems, and Optics Directorate (EOSD). In this role he manages operations for an 800-person unit with a $300M/year research portfolio across three research laboratories: the Applied Systems Laboratory (ASL), the Electro-Optical Systems Laboratory (EOSL), and the Electronic Systems Laboratory (ELSYS). He also serves on the GTRI Executive Council, helping set GTRI strategy and informing critical decisions impacting our organization. 

Tommer previously served as Director of the ELSYS Laboratory. As GTRI’s largest lab with over 500 personnel at 12 locations across the United States and $165M-$250M in annual sponsor awards, ELSYS endeavors to be GTRI’s preeminent laboratory in total life cycle systems engineering and technology transition into operation. His personal area of research includes development of collaborative, executable Model Based Systems Engineering tools utilizing multidisciplinary design optimization and trade space analytics applied to complex problems.

Dr. Ender has served as an instructor and course developer for Georgia Tech’s Professional Master’s in Applied Systems Engineering, and has served on MS and PhD thesis committees at Georgia Tech and other universities. He is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and Certified Systems Engineering Professional (CSEP). He is a Senior Member of IEEE, and active member of INCOSE, NDIA, and MORS, regularly publishing with those organizations. Tommer earned his BS, MS, and PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.