Personnel
Dr. Jacob Barhen
Director
Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research
Computing and Computational Science Directorate
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
One Bethel Valley Road, PO Box 2008
Bldg. 6010, MS-6355
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
865-574-7131
barhenj@ornl.gov
Dr. Jacob Barhen is the Director of the Center for Engineering Science Advanced Research (CESAR) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Concurrently, he also serves as Manager for CESAR programs within ORNL's Computing and Computational Science Directorate, and Manager of the Engineering Science Program within the Physical and Chemical Sciences Directorate. In March 1999, he was named Corporate Fellow of the Lockheed Martin (LMER) Corporation. He is also a non-resident affiliate of the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
From 1987 to 1994, Dr. Barhen was the head of the Nonlinear Science and Information Processing Group at Caltech / JPL. He began his career at ORNL in 1978, and led the Machine Intelligence Group till 1987. At both institutions, he established world-class research groups in artificial neural information processing and computational science. He has been the principal investigator of numerous basic and applied research projects funded by U.S. Government agencies. Currently, the DOE Office of Science, the Missile Defense Agency, and NASA provide support for his work.
Dr. Barhen's research interests include (i) global optimization; (ii) neural networks; (iii) intelligent systems; (iv) emerging computational systems; and (v) optical information processing. He has authored over 160 scientific papers, and holds 8 U.S. Patents. He serves on the editorial boards of Neural Networks, Neural Processing Letters, Mathematical and Computer Modeling, and Concurrency.
Dr. Barhen has received a 1998 R&D_100 Award for his invention of the TRUST global optimization method (Science, vol 276, 1094-1097, 1997). He has also been the recipient of 11 NASA Awards for Technical Innovation and of two NASA Major Monetary Awards for his contribution to the National Space Program. Dr. Barhen received his D.Sc. degree from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, in 1978. He is a member of the AAAS, IEEE, SPIE, the International Neural Networks Society, and the Planetary Society. He holds an active DOD clearance.
