Edmon Begoli
Director, Center for AI Security Research (CAISER)
Bio
Edmon Begoli is the founding director of ORNL’s Center for AI Security Research (CAISER) and a distinguished member of the ORNL research staff.
His expertise lies in the research, design, and development of resilient, secure, and scalable machine learning and analytic architectures. He has led several national initiatives focused on AI security, fraud prevention, veteran suicide prevention (in collaboration with PERC/REACH VET), and precision and personalized medicine (MVP CHAMPION). At ORNL, Edmon spearheaded the design of the Knowledge Discovery Infrastructure (KDI) and the Citadel platform, and he now leads the development of Photon—the first exascale-level system for AI vulnerability research at scale.
He also co-leads ORNL’s internal AI research initiative, with an emphasis on AI security research and applications.
Edmon is an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor, a Senior Member of ACM, and a committer with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). In 2022, he was named a Google Research Innovator for his work on robust streaming and language processing architectures.
He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee. Academically, Edmon is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Vanderbilt University, Computer Science Department.