Kingsley Fregene

Biography

Kingsley Fregene is the Director of Technology Integration at Lockheed Martin, where he leads practices for defining and executing a strategic portfolio of research and technology development. With a background including prior leadership roles at Honeywell, Kingsley's career has focused on developing and fielding robotic and intelligent systems that save lives and keep humans out of harm's way. He is an IEEE Fellow, serves on the IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors, and has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Control Systems, and Robotics & Automation Societies. He was the recipient of the 2021 American Automatic Control Council's Control Engineering Practice Award. Beyond his technical contributions, he is committed to inspiring future generations, with features in National Geographic and children's books like Tiny Robots and Mimic-Makers. He received his Ph.D. and M.A.Sc. from the University of Waterloo, Canada, and his B.Eng. with first class honors from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Nigeria, all in Electrical & Computer Engineering.