Presenter

Dr. Robinson E. Pino is a Program Manager for the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program office in the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science and prior Senior Advisor to the CHIPS Program Office in the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). In his portfolio, Dr. Pino focuses on revolutionary basic research and development efforts for high performance computing (HPC), edge computing, neuromorphic computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, photonics, microelectronics, advanced wireless, and applications that will enable our continued leadership through exascale and beyond computing and energy efficient technologies. Dr. Pino has expertise in technology research and development, program management, government, industry, and academia. He previously worked as Director of Cyber Research at ICF International advancing the state of the art in cybersecurity by applying autonomous concepts from computational intelligence and neuromorphic computing for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and various collaborators in National Laboratories, industry and academia. In addition, Dr. Pino was a Senior Electronics Engineer at the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) where he was a program manager and principle scientist for the computational intelligence and neuromorphic computing research efforts. He also worked at IBM as an Advisory Scientist/Engineer Development enabling advanced CMOS technologies and as a Business Analyst within IBM's photomask business unit where he was responsible for capacity planning, and manufacturing and development spending. Dr. Pino served as an adjunct professor at the University of Vermont where he taught electrical engineering courses.

Dr. Pino has a Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Electrical Engineering with honors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a B.E. in Electrical Engineering with honors, summa cum laude, from the City University of New York, City College. He is the recipient of numerous awards and professional distinctions; has published over 55 technical papers/reports, including four books; and holds nine patents.