Edmon Begoli is the founding executive director of ORNL’s Center for AI Security Research (CAISER) and a distinguished member of the ORNL research staff, specializing in resilient, secure, and scalable machine learning and analytic architectures. He has led national initiatives in AI security, fraud prevention, precision medicine, and other high-impact applications, and currently leads the development of Photon, an exascale system for AI vulnerability research. Begoli holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee and serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University, while also contributing to the IEEE Computer Society, ACM, and Apache Software Foundation.
