Prior to joining NCSU, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Currently, he is the principal investigator (PI) of the ARTISANS (ARTificial Intelligence for Simulation of Advanced Nuclear Systems) research group at NCSU-NE.
Education
B.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, in 2011; M.S. in Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2013; Ph.D. in Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2017; Postdoc in Nuclear Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2019.
Background
Research interests include: (1) calibration, validation, data assimilation, uncertainty and sensitivity analysis; (2) computational statistics, reduced order modeling; (3) Bayesian inverse problems; (4) scientific machine learning and deep generative learning; (5) system thermal-hydraulics, nuclear fuel performance modeling, multi-physics coupled simulation; (6) advanced reactors, small modular reactors, micro-reactors.