Oktavian gained this honor based on his paper titled, “Equivalent Transport Cross-section Generation for Finite-Difference Diffusion Solver,” which he had the opportunity to present while in attendance.

The paper detailed his findings related to neutron diffusion, proposing a method that could improve the accuracy of the neutron diffusion approach for analyzing nuclear reactors. With the research results presented, he hopes that the nuclear reactor design process can be carried out quickly with higher accuracy.

This award is the culmination of research he conducted alongside his graduate advisor, Yunlin Xu, assistant professor at NE, within the past year. His entry was chosen by the conference committee and paper reviewers due to its superior quality, novelty and originality.

Oktavian said, “I believe this award will have a lot of impact on my research career. As far as I know, this is one of the prestigious awards given by ANS to acknowledge graduate students’ research. Hopefully, this will be a great motivation for me to carry my research further.”

The conference took place at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign this year. 

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Source: Seungjin Kim, seungjin@purdue.edu