Robert Kester

President, Honeywell Rebellion

Dr. Robert Kester is the President of Honeywell Rebellion, a line-of-business within the Honeywell Gas Analysis and Safety. He co-founded Rebellion Photonics which was acquired by Honeywell in 2019 and delivers continuous visual emissions monitoring solutions for the oil & gas industry utilizing their award-winning Gas Cloud Imaging (GCI) system. Dr. Kester is an inventor of Rebellion’s novel snapshot hyperspectral imaging technology which is a core part of the GCI and has 25 patents and 26+ pending. He has won numerous awards including Wall Street Journal’s Startup of the Year and a R&D 100. He has a M.Sc. from the College of Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, and a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from Rice University.