He has published papers on adversarial binaries, the effects of compounded model size reductions on adversarial robustness, directional medical embedding vectors, and an interactive adversarial AI workbench. He is also an IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor, a Senior Member of ACM, and a committer with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). In 2022, he was named a Google Research Innovator for his work on robust streaming and language processing architectures.
Research Experience
He has led several national initiatives focused on AI security, fraud prevention, veteran suicide prevention (in collaboration with PERC/REACH VET), and precision and personalized medicine (MVP CHAMPION). At ORNL, Edmon spearheaded the design of the Knowledge Discovery Infrastructure (KDI) and the Citadel platform, and he now leads the development of Photon—the first exascale-level system for AI vulnerability research at scale.
Education
He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Computer Science from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee. Academically, Edmon is Adjunct Associate Professor at the Vanderbilt University, Computer Science Department.
Background
He is the founding director of ORNL’s Center for AI Security Research (CAISER) and a distinguished member of the ORNL research staff. His expertise lies in the research, design, and development of resilient, secure, and scalable machine learning and analytic architectures.
Miscellany
He is active on platforms such as Google Scholar, ORCID, LinkedIn, GitHub, and Stack Overflow.