News & Events

The ISMV group participates in sponsor-funded research and development and supports a number of conferences in scientific and technical areas. Recent events and information regarding our research, publications, proposals, awards, technical directions, conferences, staffing, and student and faculty visitors will be posted here on a regular basis ...

This page only contains information for the current calendar year. For older events please visit our ISMV Archive News and Events page.

January - May Highlights 2008

New Research Division at ORNL: Measurement Science and Systems Engineering Division

The Engineering Science and Technology Division, home to the Image Science and Machine Vision Group since 2001, has divided into two new divisions. The ISMV Group is now a member of the Measurement Science and Systems Engineering (MSSE) Division. MSSE has has been established to perform R&D in measurement science associated with electronics, sensors, signals, patterns,  informatics, and communications to develop methods, devices, instruments, and systems that interact with the world to interpret data, provide understanding, and impart control.  MSSE will provide ORNL and the nation with both the scientific and engineering research capabilities required to realize practical solutions to complex science and technology issues in energy, security, defense, and human health.

Dr. Kenneth Tobin, has been selected to be the Director of MSSE effective March 1, 2008. Dr. Shaun Gleason is the new Group Leader of the ISMV Group.  

June Highlights 2008

Dr. Shaun Gleason Returns to ORNL, New Group Leader for ISMV

Effective June 2, 2008, Dr. Shaun Gleason returned to ORNL from his Entrepreneurial Leave of Absence to assume the Group Leader position for the Image Science and Machine Vision (ISMV) Group.  Shaun began his career at ORNL in 1989 in the Instrumentation and Controls Division.  In 1999 he began working on a part-time basis at ORNL after licensing a technology that he co-developed to start ImTek, Inc., a Knoxville-based company.  The technology was developed through a Laboratory Directed R&D Program for small animal anatomic imaging by x-ray computed tomography for which he was the co-PI. Between 1999 and 2004, he played a key role in leading ImTek to become the world-leading provider of small animal microCT scanners.  ImTek was purchased in 2004 by CTI, Inc., and a few months later by Siemens Medical, Inc., at which time Shaun left ORNL on Entrepreneurial Leave.   Until recently, Shaun was the Director of Preclinical R&D for Siemens, responsible for all of Siemens preclinical product development activities.