Through my work at UIUC and SoTeRiA, I have contributed to and helped coordinate multiple DOE-, NRC-, NSF-, and industry-sponsored projects on topics including AI/ML and automation trustworthiness and transparency, fire risk analysis, common-cause failure analysis, simulation-informed dependency treatment, and risk-informed regulatory and operational strategies. Current and recent projects mapped to the four research themes.
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Year range: 2024–2026 · Sponsor/collaborators: DOE-NE (industry cost-shared) · Role: Co-PI
Develops simulation-informed dependency treatment to avoid production loss while maintaining safety for operating plants and advanced reactors.
Year range: 2019–2022 · Sponsor/collaborators: DOE NEUP · Role: Researcher & Project Coordinator
Developed computational support for risk-informed deployment of new technologies with explicit treatment of uncertainty and safety implications.
Year range: 2024–2027 · Sponsor/collaborators: NSF MCA · Role: Researcher
Analyzes interactions among human performance, physical failure mechanisms, and organizational factors to support safety-critical decisionmaking.
Year range: 2022–2025 · Sponsor/collaborators: NRC · Role: Researcher
Investigates integrated modeling of human and technology interactions for digital-twin-assisted risk analysis in nuclear applications.
Year range: 2021–2024 · Sponsor/collaborators: NRC · Role: Researcher
Builds probabilistic validation methodology to support validation of simulation models used in nuclear power plant contexts under the challenge of limited validation data.
Related research theme · Related publications: Probabilistic Validation: Theoretical Foundation and Methodological Platform (2023); Probabilistic Validation: Computational Platform and Application to Fire Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants (2024); Uncertainty-Based Validation of Maintenance-Physical Degradation Coupled Models in the Absence of Maintenance Performance Data (2026)
Year range: 2021–2024 · Sponsor/collaborators: DOE NEUP · Role: Researcher & Project Coordinator
Develops probabilistic, risk-informed methods to evaluate AI-driven automation trustworthiness and transparency for safety-critical nuclear power plant operations.
Related research theme · Related publications: Automation Transparency: A Literature Review, Methodology Development, and Application to an AI-Driven Anomaly Detection System in Nuclear Power Plants (2026); Probabilistic Validation and Risk Importance Ranking Methodology for Automation Trustworthiness and Transparency in Nuclear Power Plants (2025)
Year range: 2024–2027 · Sponsor/collaborators: NRC · Role: Researcher
Supports technology-inclusive and performance-based regulatory pathways for advanced reactors through context-based risk-informed analysis.
Related research theme · Related publications: Nuclear power’s new rule book; Part 53 public review comments; Understanding uncertainties in advanced reactor regulation
Year range: 2022–present · Sponsor/collaborators: OECD-NEA NEST · Role: UIUC Team, Subject-Matter Expert in Risk-Informed Regulation
Contributes to international educational and technical collaboration on risk-informed approaches relevant to advanced reactor deployment.
Related research theme · Related outputs: 2024 OECD-NEA NEST SMR Invited Lecture; 2023 OECD-NEA NEST SMR Invited Lecture; 2022 OECD-NEA NEST SMR Invited Lecture