2015 Global Identity Summit

Chris Boehnen
Program Manager
IARPA


Dr. Chris Boehnen is a Program Manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) focused on biometrics, computer vision, and machine learning. He is also joint faculty at the University of Tennessee. Dr. Boehnen was formerly the founder and team lead for the Secure Computer Vision Team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). In his six years at ORNL he served as Principal Investigator on $11 million in funding spread over 24 different grants which he conceived, proposed, and successfully executed. He received the ORNL Early Career Award for Engineering and 2 of his papers have received best paper awards at highly competitive conferences. Dr. Boehnen received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame Computer Science and Engineering Department. He has been a member of the biometrics research community since 2001 when he began working on the Face Recognition Grand Challenge.

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