Joel Brogan, who leads the Multimodal Sensor Analytics group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has been elevated to senior membership in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE.
As the highest level of membership, senior status is awarded to only 10% of IEEE members. The designation is reserved for those who have made a significant contribution to the engineering field over at least a decade.
Brogan's research focuses on computer vision, biometrics and adversarial artificial intelligence. He is a founding member of the Center for AI Security Research, or CAISER, and leads projects related to the safe deployment and use of AI technologies across the public sector. His research also encompasses building artificial intelligence applications for nuclear nonproliferation.
Brogan leads the ORNL evaluation team for the Biometric Recognition and Identification at Altitude and Range, or BRIAR project, which supports the U.S. intelligence community by expanding sensing capabilities in whole-body recognition at a distance and from unusual angles. Brogan also built the application programming interface for the BRIAR software system. He is co-leader of ORNL's team for Video Linking and Integration of Non-Coordinating Sensors, or Video LINCS , which enables autonomous analysis of diverse sensor footage for patterns that might indicate abnormalities and threats.
After earning a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Hope College in Michigan, Brogan completed both a master's degree in computer science and engineering and a doctorate in computer science at the University of Notre Dame. Brogan started at ORNL as an intern, then became a post-doctoral researcher before joining the lab research staff in 2020.
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