Dr. Philip Bingham is head of the Electrification and Energy Infrastructures Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he leads research to improve the reliability, sustainability, and security of the nation’s electric grid and energy storage systems, including integration of renewable energy and electric vehicles.
Over more than two decades at ORNL, Dr. Bingham has advanced the fields of computational sensing, image processing, and machine learning for industrial inspection, national security, and energy applications. His work integrates signal and image analytics into novel sensor systems, enabling new measurement capabilities across a wide range of modalities, including electromagnetic sensing, x-ray and neutron radiography, and computed tomography.
Dr. Bingham has led major multi-laboratory initiatives in air cargo security and defense nuclear nonproliferation, earning more than 15 patents, a Battelle Distinguished Inventor Award, and a National Federal Laboratory Consortium Award for technology transfer. In 2024, he received a U.S. government Exceptional Service Award for contributions to nuclear nonproliferation.
Dr. Bingham holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and the Georgia Institute of Technology.