Garrett Beatty, Ph.D.
Assistant Dean for Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Garrett Beatty, Ph.D., is the Assistant Dean for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the UF College of Health & Human Performance. Garrett collaborates with students, staff, faculty, campus partners and industry to promote opportunities for innovation across the college’s and university’s educational and enterprise endeavors. He also supports corporate investment in students and faculty, commercialization of discoveries, and adoption of emerging technologies. He is a fierce advocate for AI in education, leading curricular and co-curricular programs at the college and serving on university committees seeking to advance AI across the curriculum.
In addition to Garrett’s academic endeavors, he has served as a consultant within industry for several years, leveraging his expertise in perception-action coupling, eye-tracking technology, virtual reality training platforms, and human performance analytics. His consulting work has contributed to multiple patents, successful startup funding rounds, and novel data analytic approaches in human performance organizations.