Gary O’Neill is a Senior Research Engineer with the Georgia Tech School of Aerospace Engineering and Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI), currently serving as the Deputy Director of the Georgia Aerospace Innovation Center. He joined Georgia Tech after a 25-year career in the US Navy as an operational helicopter pilot and acquisition logistics and maintenance expert with two command tours in the Naval Air Systems Command. He joined the Logistics and Maintenance Applied Research Center of GTRI in 2000.

His research at Georgia Tech has focused on challenges of logistics and maintenance of complex mechanical systems. Past research includes asset tracking and management, advanced logistic support systems and Condition Based Maintenance (CBM). Research in CBM has included projects for the US Army and US Air Force related to advanced diagnostics and prognostics using vibration based sensors and signal processing technology. He is a founding member of the Academic Center for Aging Aircraft, a multi-year partnership with Texas A&M, GTRI and the University of Dayton Research Institute.

As Deputy Director of the Georgia Aerospace Innovation Center, he is managing projects under development through a master Cooperative Research and Development Agreement between the State of Georgia and the US Air Force. He also is serving as an eminent scholar for the staff at Warner Robins Air Logistics Center and is a full time member of their High Velocity Maintenance High Performance Team of senior managers, who have been chartered to re-engineer the US Air Force aircraft depot repair processes.