Eric A. Machorro
Eric A. Machorro
Biography
Eric Machorro began his career as an environmental scientist and engineer, where he directed the planning and implementation of a semi-urban nationally recognized watershed and fisheries restoration program across several governmental jurisdictions in the Portland metropolitan area.
After returning from academia to complete his doctoral degree, he served as an applied mathematician and signal processing subject matter expert, technical advisor, and researcher working with the Nevada National Security Site’s (NNSS's) laboratory directed research and development program. He managed a diverse group of mathematicians, technicians, engineers, physicists, and other scientists to explore new research areas. He also directed the development of novel signal and image processing methods.
Before coming to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), he was responsible for planning and guiding the implementation of NNSS’ dynamic materials diagnostic and sensor research and development program coordinated across Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories’ weapon physics programs and interfacing with National Nuclear Security Administration offices in Washington D.C.
As technical advisor at PNNL, Machorro has had a diversity of roles, most notably a strategic planning role for the PNNL computational and modeling capabilities to support artificial intelligence for materials science problems across the Department of Energy’s nuclear stockpile complex pertaining to maintaining and modernizing the nation’s nuclear weapon stockpile. His current research areas in signal processing and image analyses also include machine learning and physics informed heat transport, spatially varying deconvolution techniques, and mixed emission-attenuation computerized tomography (CT) imaging problems.
Education
- PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Washington
- MS in Mathematics, University of Washington
- MS in Environmental Science and Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University
- BA in Mathematics, Reed College