Pablo Moriano, a research scientist at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, was given a prestigious distinction from one of the world’s leading educational and scientific computing societies, the Association for Computing Machinery. ACM, the largest computing society, advocates for the profession through leadership, high standards and recognition of technical excellence. It helps members grow by offering lifelong learning, career development and networking opportunities.
A researcher in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Moriano was named a senior member by ACM. This honor is reserved for members with at least ten years of professional experience and five years of professional membership, as well as having demonstrated technical leadership and technical or professional contributions.
ACM has over 100,000 members worldwide, with more than half living outside the U.S. It operates through more than 860 professional and student chapters and 38 special interest groups (SIGs). Many SIGs, such as SIGHPC, SIGSIM, SIGKDD and SIGSEC, organize conferences that serve as key forums for presenting innovations in their fields.
Moriano’s work at ORNL centers on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cybersecurity. His accomplishments at the lab include leading a research team on a $1.5 million project designing and developing adaptive anomaly detection algorithms for cyber-physical systems, disclosing five inventions and filing three patent applications in security analytics, and publishing research articles in top peer reviewed journals such as Physical Review E, PLOS ONE, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Computer Networks, Nature Scientific Reports and Computers & Security.
He is also a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and a member of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
This distinction encourages Pablo to support and mentor researchers who follow him in the field.
“I feel so grateful because I was mentored by other excellent professionals and that makes you think what you can do for the next generation,” he said.
UT-Battelle manages ORNL for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science, the single largest supporter of basic research in the physical sciences in the United States. The Office of Science is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, please visit energy.gov/science. — Mark Alewine
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