Presenter

Georgia Tourassi is the Director of the National Center for Computational Sciences at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Concurrently, she holds appointments as an adjunct Professor of Radiology at Duke University and as a joint UT-ORNL Professor of the Bredesen Center at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Her scholarly work includes 13 US patents and innovation disclosures and more than 300 peer-reviewed publications. She is elected Fellow of 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 work is at the intersection of high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine. Dr. Tourassi holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.