2017 Federal Identity Forum & Homeland Security

Chris Boehnen
Senior Program Manager
IARPA


Dr. Chris Boehnen is a Senior Program Manager at the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) focused on biometrics, computer vision, and machine learning. He is the PM for the Odin, Janus, N2N Challenge, and BEST programs. 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 3 of his papers have received best paper awards at highly competitive conferences including best paper out of 133 submissions at BTAS 2016. Dr. Boehnen received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame Computer Science and Engineering Department.

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