July 5, 2023 — Sergey Yakubov of the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory has been named a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, effective June 21. IEEE, one of the world’s largest technical professional organizations, is dedicated to improving global conditions through technological innovation.
Senior membership, the IEEE’s highest grade, recognizes veteran scientists, engineers and others with at least 10 years of professional experience who have shown significant performance over at least five years and have been nominated by other IEEE fellows and senior members. The IEEE reserves that status for fewer than 10 percent of its more than 400,000 members worldwide.
Yakubov joined the ORNL Computer Science and Mathematics division in April 2022. He has taken a lead role in developing the Neutron Data Interpretation Platform, a key part of creating an accessible ecosystem for neutron scattering data analysis. He is also helping to develop software for the Interconnect Science Ecosystem, a DOE project to enable information flow and collaboration in smart labs of the future.
Yakubov earned his doctorate in physics and mathematics from Saint Petersburg State Polytechnic University in Russia. He developed computational fluid dynamics codes during his postdoc at the Hamburg University of Technology in Germany and later worked as a software developer at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, or DESY, in Hamburg. At DESY, he led the development of software for experimental data and metadata management, participated in multiple European cloud computing projects and supported DESY users to optimize software for high-performance computing.
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Source: ORNL