ETEC - Gina Tourassi of ORNL, Interviewed by Joe Hoagland of ORNL
ETEC - Gina Tourassi of ORNL, Interviewed by Joe Hoagland of ORNL
Friday, September 12, 2025 (7:30 AM - 8:30 AM) (EDT)
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Join us at ETEC in-person or virtually on Friday, September 12, 2025, at 7:30am to hear from Georgia (Gina) Tourassi, Associate Laboratory Director of Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) who will be interviewed by Joe Hoagland, Director of Special Initiatives at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Their bios are below.
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Georgia (Gina) Tourassi
Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Dr. Georgia Tourassi is the Associate Laboratory Director of the Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Concurrently, she holds appointments as an Adjunct Professor of Radiology at Duke University and as a joint UT-ORNL Professor of the Bredesen Center Data Science Program at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Under her leadership, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility delivered Frontier in 2022, the world’s first exascale computing system dedicated to open science.
Her scholarly work includes 13 US patents and innovation disclosures, 2 R&D 100 awards, and more than 260 peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings articles, editorials, and book chapters. She is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the American Association of Medical Physicists (AAPM), the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Her research interests include high performance computing and artificial intelligence in biomedicine. For her leadership in the Joint Design of Advanced Computing Solutions for Cancer initiative, she received the DOE Secretary’s Appreciation Award in 2016. DOE has also recognized Gina's contributions to HPC leadership with 4 DOE Secretary's Honor Awards for her contributions to the COVID-19 Insights Partnership Team (2021), the COVID-19 HPC Resource Team (2021), Driving US Competitiveness and Innovation in HPC/AI team (2022), and the Frontier project (2024). Locally, she has been honored by the YWCA Knoxville for STEM mentorship of underrepresented groups and the UT-Battelle Distinguished Researcher Award and the ORNL Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology in 2017.
Tourassi holds a B.S. in Physics from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University.
Joe Hoagland
Director of Special Initiatives
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
Joe Hoagland, a leader in regional energy innovation, has been named director of special initiatives at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
He joins the lab on March 3, 2025, after more than 30 years with the Tennessee Valley Authority, where his leadership helped drive a number of key strategic issues for TVA, including new opportunities in nuclear, the Integrated Resource Plan process, coal combustion strategies and various new technology deployments within the Valley region.
At ORNL, Hoagland will help steward complex opportunities that require alignment of multiple stakeholders, expertise and organizations, and convergence of science and operations.
“Joe’s extensive experience in strategy, research and development, community and stakeholder engagement in the evolving energy marketplace will help us position the lab for the future,” ORNL Director Stephen Streiffer said.
At TVA, Hoagland held numerous leadership positions, most recently as vice president of innovation and research, leading a team of technology professionals in transformational research and management of innovation projects for TVA’s Power System of the Future.
“The research capabilities at Oak Ridge make this one of the most exciting places in the world for energy and technological innovation,” Hoagland said. “I’m excited to join the team to help ensure that Oak Ridge continues to be a leader in solving critical energy issues.”
Hoagland chairs the Tennessee State Energy Policy Council and is a member of the boards of the Cherokee Farm Development Corp., Smart Electric Power Association, and American Museum of Science and Energy Foundation.
He earned his doctorate and master’s degree from Washington State University in physical chemistry, after completing a bachelor’s in chemistry from Southern Utah University. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Howard Baker School for Public Policy teaching about technologies related to the power system.
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1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike
Oak Ridge, TN 37830 United States
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Hailey Lewis
Complimentary coffee, bagels, muffins and pastries served.
The Outreach Center is located on the back corner of the building on the Applebee’s side. The entrance faces the Quality Inn and Applebee's.
Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center.
The main entrance of the ETEC Office will be locked.
-If you are coming from Knoxville via S. Illinois Ave (TN-62W); take a right onto S. Rutgers Ave, and continue until you come to the intersection of Rice Rd and Rider Rd, across from ORNL Corporate Headquarters; after the Quality Inn, take a left onto Rider Rd and you will arrive at your destination on the right. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center.
-Alternatively, if you are coming from Knoxville via S. Illinois Ave (TN-62W); you can take a sharp right and merge onto Lafayette Dr; turn left onto W. Gettysburg Ave; turn right onto Manhattan Ave; then at the intersection of Manhattan Ave and S. Rutgers Ave, continue straight across onto Rice Rd until you come to the intersection of Rice Rd and Rider Rd; take a right onto Rider Rd and you will arrive at your destination on the right. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center.
-If you are coming from Oak Ridge via the Turnpike, you will find us between the intersection of S. Rutgers Ave and Wallace Rd, between the Applebee's and Dairy Queen, across the street from St. Mary's School. The Outreach Center is located on the back corner of the building on the Applebee’s side. The entrance faces the Quality Inn and Applebee's. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center. The main entrance of the ETEC Office will be locked.
-If you are coming from Oak Ridge via Illinois Ave; turn onto S. Rutgers Ave, and continue until you come to the intersection of Rice Rd and Rider Rd, across from ORNL Corporate Headquarters; after the Quality Inn, turn onto Rider Rd and you will arrive at your destination on the right. The Outreach Center is located on the back corner of the building on the Applebee’s side. The entrance faces the Quality Inn and Applebee's. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center. The main entrance of the ETEC Office will be locked.
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