Robert Stewart turned a childhood fascination with maps and computers into a career at ORNL developing geospatial and AI tools for environmental cleanup and human security.
David Page, head of the Geographic Data Science Section at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, leads with a focus on judgment, collaboration and empowering teams.
ORNL researchers developed a portable, highly sensitive detector that can identify GPS spoofing in real time, helping protect trucking shipments from theft and misdirection.
A 2003 cascading power failure left more than 50 million people without electricity and exposed vulnerabilities in interconnected infrastructure.
Researchers at ORNL provided the first comprehensive analysis of the specific costs of power outages to local customers across the nation.
Researchers at ORNL have developed a deep learning algorithm that analyzes drone, camera and sensor data to reveal unusual vehicle patterns that may indicate illicit activity, including the movement of nuclear materials.
Maria Mahbub, a staff scientist in the Cyber Resilience and Intelligence Division at the Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory, recently earned second place and the People’s Choice Award in ORNL’s 2025 Your Science in a Nutshell competition
Jairus Hines, an electronics and unmanned systems technician at ORNL, works with airborne, waterborne and ground-based drones.
During Hurricanes Helene and Milton, ORNL deployed drone teams and the Mapster platform to gather and share geospatial data, aiding recovery and damage assessments. ORNL's EAGLE-I platform tracked utility outages, helping prioritize recovery efforts.
A team of researchers at ORNL are using virtual reality to understand normal and abnormal human behavior in a given location – specifically, a nuclear reactor. As people move around their lives, they tend to do similar activities in the same