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April 6, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Dylan Jurski for successful proposal defense! He is doing great work on developing systems to do thermal power dispatch for pseudo-load following for Pressurized Water Reactors. Way to go Dylan! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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September 17, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Allison Probert for being selected for the 2025 Global Rising Stars Workshop in Stockholm Sweden! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

July 14, 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations to Dr. Jeremy Smith for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation titled “Nuclear Fuel Performance Modeling for Extreme Conditions: From Nuclear Thermal Propulsion to High-Burnup, Light-Water Reactor Loss of Coolant Accidents.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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December 6, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\r\n

Congratulation to Ginger Lucas for successfully passing her proposal defense! Way to go Ginger!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

April 22, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Congratulation to Allison Probert for publishing her first journal paper titled “An assessment of UO2 and ATF concept fuel performance modeling demands against current experimental capabilities under LOCA conditions<\/a>” in Annals of Nuclear Energy.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

April 11, 2024<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Congratulation to Allison Probert for successfully passing her proposal defense! Way to go Ali!\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

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December 12, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Congratulation to Joel Latimer for receiving an NRC Fellowship!<\/p>\r\n

November 2, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Congratulation to Aidan Furlong for publishing his first journal paper titled “Investigation of Monte Carlo trained CNNs for Neutronics Predictions of Typical and Atypical PWR Assemblies<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

May 27, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Congratulation to Allison Prober for receiving an UNLP Fellowship!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

May 26, 2023<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Congratulation to Jeremy Smith for successfully defending his Ph.D. research proposal.\u00a0 He is now a nuclear engineering Ph.D. candidate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

June 27, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Members of FAMMoS (Justin Watson and Allison Probert) visit INL to tour facilities and meet with INL scientists to discuss collaborative research topics. Special guest Jeremy Smith from the Tonks Research group also attended the BISON training at INL.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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May 18, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Aidan Furlong presented his paper titled “Using Neural Networks to Predict Pin Powers in Reflective PWR\u00a0 Fuel Assemblies with Varying Pin Size” at the International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2022 (PHYSOR 2022)in Pittsburgh Pa.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
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March 29, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Congratulations to Aidan Furlong for getting his paper titled “Using Neural Networks to Predict Pin Powers in Reflective PWR\u00a0 Fuel Assemblies with Varying Pin Size” accepted to the International Conference on Physics of Reactors 2022 (PHYSOR 2022) being held in Pittsburgh Pa.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

June 10, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Congratulations to Dr. Forrest Shriver for being named one of 6 ORNL Innovation Crossroads fellows.\u00a0 Forrest Shriver is the first PhD student to graduate from the FAMMoS research group at UF. More information on the ORNL Innovation Crossroads Cohort 5 can be found here (Cohort 5 | Innovation Crossroads (ornl.gov)<\/a>)\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

June 1, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Congratulations to Zhuang Wu for earning a Great Teaching Certificate (TA Edition) through the Center for Teaching Excellence Passport to Great Teaching Program.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

April 22, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Congratulations to Dr. Shriver!!!!\u00a0 He successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation today titled “Prediction of High-fidelity Neutronics\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Parameters in Pressurized Water\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Reactors using Deep Learning”<\/span><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

April\u00a0 10, 2021<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Aidan Furlong presented his paper titled “Application of LatticeNet Deep Learning Architecture on Neurtronics Predictions Using\u00a0 OpenMC” at the 2021 ANS Student Conference!\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

November 19, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Good Luck Forrest Shriver!!!! He is pitching his Ph.D. at the ANS national winter meeting today at 2:30 pm.\u00a0 His Ph.D. is titled “Prediction of high-fidelity neutronics parameters in pressurized water reactors using Artificial Neural Networks”.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\r\n

November 17, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Forrest Shriver submitted his poster titled “Computational performance of deep learning models for predicting reactor parameters” at the ANS national winter meeting.<\/p>\r\n

November 13, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Forrest Shriver’s first journal publication titled “Prediction of Neutronics Parameters within a 2D Reflective PWR Assembly Using Deep Learning” was accepted for publication in Nuclear Science and Engineering.\u00a0 Congratulations Forrest!<\/p>\r\n

July 9, 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zhuang Wu successfully passed her proposal defense!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 29, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

VEXS has been released to the public on github https:\/\/github.com\/fshriver\/VEXS\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

August 25,2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Forrest Shriver is presenting his paper titled \u201cVEXS, An Open Platform for the Study of Continuous-Energy Cross-Section Lookup Algorithms on GPUs\u201d at Mathematics and Computational Methods 2019 in Portland Oregon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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