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Appointment
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August 2003 - Present: Assistant Professor, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering,
The University of New Mexico
Secondary
Appointment
• August
2003 - Present: Associated Faculty, Computational Science & Engineering,
Center for High Performance Computing, The University of New Mexico
Educational
Records
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August 1998, Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan
• August 1994, M.S., Nuclear Engineering, University of Michigan
• March 1987, B.S. in Eng., Nuclear Engineering, Nagoya University
Projects
Funded
• July 2005 - June 2008: "A Multivariate Time Series Method
for Monte Carlo Reactor Analysis," Nuclear Engineering Education
Research Award, Department of Energy, U.S. Government. (Sole PI)
• July 2005 - May 2006: "Improved Methods for Monte Carlo Particle
Transport," X-5, Los Alamos National Laboratory. (PI with Dr. Prinja
at UNM)
• October 2005 - September 2005: "Principal Components and Kolmogorov
Complexity in Nuclear Reactor Simulations," The LANL/UNM Joint Science
and Technology Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory. (Sole PI)
• October 2004 - September 2006: "Variance Reduction for Monte
Carlo Photon-Electron Coupled Transport Simulations," Sandia University
Research Program, Sandia National Laboratory. (Sole PI)
Previous
Professional Experiences
• September 2001 - August 2003: Postdoctoral associate at Diagnostics
Applications Group (X-5) at Los Alamos National Laboratory
• June 1998 - June 2000: Postdoctoral scientist at Interfaculty Reactor
Institute at Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands
• April 1987 - April 1992: Entry level engineer at Hitachi Ltd.,
Ibaraki, Japan
Other
Relevant Experiences
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July 2000: Guest research staff at Applied Numerical Modeling and Computational
Group at T.H. Huxley School at Imperial College of Science, Technology
and Medicine in United Kingdom
• June -August 1995: Summer student research program at Japan Atomic
Energy Research Institute
Awards
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October 1997: Outstanding student presentation award at the Joint International
Conference on Mathematical Methods and Supercomputing for Nuclear Applications,
Saratoga Springs, New York
• September 1996 - August 1997: Predoctoral fellowship by Rackham
Graduate School at University of Michigan
Recent
Professional Services
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Summary review committee of Mathematics and Computation Division for American
Nuclear Society's biannual national meeting (winter 2003 - present)
• Reviewer for the Physor 2004 meeting, international conference
on reactor physics
• Refereed an article for Nuclear Science and Engineering (2003).
• Session chair for variance reduction methods in ANS International
Meeting on Nuclear Mathematical and Computational Sciences (M&C 2003),
Gatlinburg, TN April 2003.
• Served on the technical program committee of ANS International
Meeting on Nuclear Mathematical and Computational Sciences (M&C 2003),
Gatlinburg, TN April 2003.
• Refereed an article for Journal of Heat Transfer (2002).
• Served on the technical program committee of ANS International
Meeting on Mathematical Methods for Nuclear Applications (M&C 2001),
Salt Lake City, Utah, September 2001.
• Refereed an article for Nuclear Science and Engineering (2001).
Professional
Memberships
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American Nuclear Society,
• American Statistical Association,
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