Brian Worley
Adjunct Professor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Brian A. Worley is the Director of the Computational Sciences and Engineering Division (CSED) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), and holds an adjunct faculty appointment at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He began his research at ORNL in 1977 as a reactor physicist and served as Group Leader for the Reactor Physics Group from 1990 to 1999. From 1999 through 2001, he served as Section Head for Computational Sciences in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division, and has served in his current position as division director since its inception in October 2001. Over the past twelve years, he has led numerous defense-related projects for the Department of Defense in a wide range of modeling and simulation disciplines. His current interests include knowledge discovery from dynamic, disparate data. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1977 and 1975, and a B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee in 1973.