Summit Speaker

Georgia (Gina) Tourassi

Director of the National Center for Computational Sciences and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Lab

Georgia (Gina) Tourassi is Director of the National Center for Computational Sciences and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). In addition, she is an adjunct professor of radiology at Duke University and joint UT-ORNL faculty at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and the Bredesen Center. She holds a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and a BS in Physics from the University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Her scientific work is at the intersection of high performance computing, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine. She is elected fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS). Her scholarly work includes more than 250 peer-reviewed publications as well as 15 invention disclosures and patents. Gina received the DOE Secretary’s Appreciation Award in 2016 for her leadership in the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer initiative, the UT-Battelle Distinguished Researcher Award in 2017, the DOE’s Secretary Honors Award for her contributions to the COVID-19 Insights Partnership Team and to the COVID-19 HPC Resource Team in 2020, and the DOE’s Secretary Honors Award for her contributions to the Congressional briefing series entitled “Driving U. S. Competitiveness & Innovation: A New Era of Science for Transformative Industry” in 2022.

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