Taro
Ueki
Associate Professor
Farris Engineering Center - Room 259
505 277.7964
tueki@unm.edu
Education:
- Ph.D. University of Michigan Nuclear Engineering, 1998
- M.S. University of Michigan Nuclear Engineering, 1994
- B.S. Nagoya Unversity Nuclear Engineering, 1987
Research
- Monte Carlo methods, radiation transport and reactor physics
-
Light
water reactor sustainability issues
- Time
series analysis, trend and pattern detection in noisy data and
application of information theory
Professional Experience
- 2009 - Present: Associate Professor, Department of Chemical & Nuclear Engineering • University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
- 2003 - 2009: Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical & Nuclear Engineering • University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
- 2003 - Present: Associated Faculty, Computational Science & Engineering, Center for High Performance Computing, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM.
- 2001-03: Postdoctoral Associate, Diagnostics Applications Group (X-5), Los Alamos National Laboratory.
- 1998-00: Postdoctoral Scientist, Interfaculty Reactor Institute, Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands.
- 1987-92: Engineer, Hitachi Ltd., Ibaraki, Japan.
Teaching
- ChNE
330 Nuclear
Engineering Science • Spring 2008
- ChNE 499/560 Nuclear Reactor Kinetics • Spring 2008
- ChNE 462 Monte Carlo Tech for Nuclear Systems • Fall 2008
Ongoing Research Support:
- Los
Alamos National Laboratory • 06/09-05/10
Improved Methods for Monte Carlo Particle Transport • 3rd term - University
of California Directed Research and Development (UCDRD) •
04/06-05/09
Principal Components and Kolmogorov Complexity in Nuclear Reactor Simulations
Selected Publications:
- B.R.
Nease, and T. Ueki, “Time Series Analysis and Monte Carlo
Methods for Eigenvalue Separation in Neutron Multiplication Problems,”
in press, Journal of Computational Physics.
- T. Ueki, “Step-Refined On-The-Fly Convergence Diagnostics of Monte Carlo Fission Source Distribution,” in press, Nuclear Science and Engineering.
- T. Ueki, “Stationarity Diagnostics with Relative Entropy and Wilcoxon Signed Rank in Iterated-Source Monte Carlo Methods,” Nuclear Science and Engineering, 160 242-252 (2008).
- T. Ueki, “On-The-Fly Diagnostics of Particle Population in Iterated-Source Monte Carlo Methods,” Nuclear Science and Engineering, 158, 15-27 (2008).
- B.R. Nease and T. Ueki, "Time Series Analysis of Monte Carlo Fission Sources:III. Coarse Mesh Projection," Nuclear Science and Engineering, 157, 51-64 (2007).
- T. Ueki, “Monte Carlo Variance Reduction for Energy Profile Calculation at the Electron Emission due to Photon Radiation,” Nuclear Science and Engineering, 157, 119-131 (2007).