Presenter

Dr. Georgia Tourassi is the Associate Laboratory Director of the Computing and Computational
Sciences Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Concurrently, she holds
appointments as an Adjunct Professor of Radiology at Duke University and as a joint UT-ORNL
Professor of the Bredesen Center Data Science Program at the University of Tennessee at
Knoxville. Under her leadership, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility delivered Frontier
in 2022, the world’s first exascale computing system dedicated to open science.

Her scholarly work includes 13 US patents and innovation disclosures, 2 R&D 100 awards, and
more than 260 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings articles, editorials, and
book chapters. She is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American
Association of Medical Physicists (AAPM), the International Society for Optics and Photonics
(SPIE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Her research interests include high performance computing and artificial intelligence in
biomedicine. For her leadership in the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for
Cancer initiative, she received the DOE Secretary’s Appreciation Award in 2016. In 2017, she
received the ORNL Director's Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and
Technology and the UT-Battelle Distinguished Researcher Award. In 2020, Dr. Tourassi received
the DOE’s Secretary Honors Award for contributing to the COVID-19 Insights Partnership
Team and the COVID-19 HPC Resource Team.

Tourassi holds a B.S. in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and a Ph.D.
in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.