Primary Job Title Advisor & Co-Founder Primary Organization DarkLight
Location West Richland, Washington, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Ryan Hohimer received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) in 1995 from Washington State University. Immediately, the US Department of Engery (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) put him to work in data collection and analysis in energy and national security domains. This placed him into “Big Data” before “Big Data”
was cool. Dealing with the challenges of managing massive data sparked his interest in metadata. The Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) which emerged from metadata representations became a central component Ryan’s Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R) acumen.
Ryan honed his KR&R skills through nearly 19 years of research and project management at PNNL. He is the lead inventor of the CHAMPION technology. He was the Principle Investigator and Project Manager overseeing the development of the first prototypes. The first prototypes addressed cyber-behaviors in Insider-Threat and Cybersecurity.
