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· At Purdue
Source Dates Amount Description
INEEL/URC 6/1/95 to 9/30/97 $270,825 Development of Multiphase
Flow Sensors and Diagnostic Systems - Co-PI with M. Ishii Co-PI (Total
$541,650)
PRF 5/1/96 to7/30/96 $5,000 Specialized Artificial Neurons and Networks
- Sole PI
PRF 8/1/96 to7/30/96 $12,226 Logic-Based Artificial Neurons and Networks
for Reactor Safety and Diagnostic Syst. I - Sole PI
PurdueAcademic ReInvestment 9/96-5/99 $20,500 Purdue-On-Line: A Facility
for Developing and Delivering Internet Based Courses - with Nour, Coppoc,
Jones, Elmagarmid, Houstis Co-PI (Total $123,000)
PRF 8/1/97 to7/30/98 $12,226 Logic-Based Artificial Neurons and Networks
for Reactor Safety and Diagnostic Syst. II - Sole PI
ArgonneNational Lab. 4/1/97 to12/31/97 $23,963 An Investigation of
Fuzzy Trend Algorithms for Nuclear Plant Transients - Sole PI
Rosemount Instruments 4/1/97 to12/31/97 $20,210 Magnetic Flowmeter
Neural Diagnostics and Information Management System Develp. - Sole PI
Beltone 01/1/98 to06/30/00 $104,080 A Neurofuzzy Methodology for Intelligent
Hearing Prosthetics - Sole PI
NRC 1/1/98 to9/30/98 $129,729 Task #7: SNAP Nodalization Knowledge
Based ExpertSystem –PI
NRC 10/1/98 to9/30/99 $145,000 Modification to Task #7: SNAP Nodalization
Knowledge based Expert System - PI
RosemountInstruments 1/8/98 to1/2/99 $49,403 Magnetic Flow Meter Neural-Wavelet
Diagnostics andInformation Management System - Sole PI
INPO 1998-99 $26,000 National Academy for Nuclear Training1998-99 Fellowship
Awards - Sole PI
EPRI/DOD 1999-01 $825,000 Intelligent Management of the Electric Power
Grid through and Innovative Anticipatory, Multi-Agent, High-Performance
Computing Approach, PI (TOTAL $1,499,800)
NSF 3/15/99 to2/28/01 $13,156 Cost Minimization of Fossil-Fuel Electric
Power Plants using Knowledge Based Approaches - Sole PI
ArgonneNational Lab. 1/1/99 to8/31/99 $25,000 PROTREN Development:
AI Approaches For Trend Identification in Nuclear Plant Transients - Sole
PI
INPO 1999-2000 $28,000 National Academy for Nuclear Training1998-99
Fellowship Awards – Sole PI
FISHER-ROSEMOUNT 4/1/99-3/31/00 $67,876 Single Sensor Process Diagnostics
Using a Neural-Wavelet Approach – Sole PI
PRF 8/15/998/14/00 11,666 Neurofuzzy Methodologies for Anticipatory
Intelligent Systems – Sole PI
· At The University of Tennessee
Source Dates Amount Description
DOE 6/1/89 to 5/30/92 $282,600 Enhancing Nuclear Power Plant
Performance through the Use of Artificial Intelligence - Co-PI with
R.E. Uhrig, L. Miller, A. Marren, B.R. Upadhyaya (Total $772,575)
ORNL 7/1/89 to8/1/92 $92,000 Intelligent Monitoring and Surveillance
for theMHTGR-NPR, Sole PI
Short-Course at OAK Ridge National Laboratory:
Fuzzy Logic & Applications: A Short
Course in Fuzzy Logic and Engineering: An intense, week-long course on
fuzzy logic
fundamentals, engineering applications,
fuzzy control and diagnosis and fuzzy pattern recognition, attended by
35
researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
(Developed and taught with Professor Lotfi Zadeh, UC-Berkeley, January
14-18, 1991.)
Academic Courses Taught:
NUCL 570 Fuzzy Approaches in Engineering:
A graduate level course in Fuzzy Logic theory and its engineering
applications. (Developed and taught
every Spring Semester at Purdue University).
NUCL 200 Introduction to Nuclear Engineering: An undergraduate level course introducing students to Nuclear Engineering.
NUCL 597 Neural Networks in Engineering:
A graduate level course in neural computing theory and its engineering
applications. (Developed and taught
Fall Semesters at Purdue University).
Nuc E 597 Fuzzy Logic in Engineering:
A graduate level course on theory and engineering research on fuzzy logic.
Special
focus on fuzzy process control, pattern
recognition, fuzzy hardware and software tools -- the TOGAI TIL Shell is
used for
class projects. (Developed and taught
at the University of Tennessee, Fall 1991)
Nuc E - Eng Sc & Mech 576 Expert
Systems in Engineering: A graduate level course on expert systems in engineering.
Special focus on the mathematical equivalence
of numerical and symbolic computations; heuristic and causal methods; LISP,
PROLOG, OPS5 for class projects. (Developed
and taught at the University of Tennessee, Spring 1990, Spring 1991, Spring
1992)
Nuc E 306 Designing for Energy Transport:
Radiation heat transport; hydrodynamics and heat transport in boiling and
condensing systems; heat exchanger and
steam generator design. (University of Tennessee, Spring 1991)
Nuc E 401 Reactor Theory II: Senior-graduate
level course covering the second half of the Nuclear Reactor Analysis text
by
Duderstadt & Hamilton. (University
of Tennessee, Fall 1990)
Theory of Computing Languages: Formal
aspects of computing languages, automata and computation, context-free
grammars, complexity, Turing machines.
(Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Fall 1993)
Object Oriented Programming: Fundamentals
of object oriented programming, objects and message-based forms of
computation using SMALLTALK. (Aristotle
University of Thessaloniki, Fall 1993)
Operating Systems: Formal aspects of
operating system design, time-sharing, concurrent processes, performance
analysis
tools. (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Spring 1994).
Principal Invesitgator (with Dr. M. Ishii),
Development of Multiphase Flow Sensors and Diagnostic Systems, Massachusetts
Institue of Technology, MIT-540-1290-1048,
6/1/95 to 9/30/97, $541,650.
Principal Invesitgator, Logic-Based Artificial
Neurons and Networks for Reactor Safety and Diagnostic Problems, Purdue
Research Foundation, 8/15/96 to 9/30/97,
$11,040.
Principal Investigator, Intelligent Monitoring
and Surveillance for the MHTGR-NPR, research funded by Martin Marrieta
Energy Systems under contract R01-1381-45,
7/1/89-8/1/92, $92,000/year (for 3 years).
Principal Investigator, (with Dr. R.E.
Uhrig), Monitoring of Check Valves using Neural Networks, research funded
by the
Electric Power Research Institute under
contract EPRI/RP-8010-12, January-December 1991, $112,695.
Principal Investigator, (with Dr. R.E.
Uhrig), Enhancing Nuclear Power Plant Performance through the use of Artificial
Intelligence, research funded by the
Department of Energy under contract # DE-FG07-88ER12824, $249,000/year.
September 1993-August 1994: Visiting
Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics,
Thessaloniki,
Greece.
September 1992 to September 1993: Invited
Research Fellow, Japan Atomic Energy Reseach Institute, Tokai-mura, Japan.
Projects: Research on Possibility Theory;
lectured on Anticipatory Systems and Virtual Measurements.
June 1989 to August 1992: Associate Director,
Center for Neural Engineering Applications, University of Tennessee,
Knoxville and, Visiting Scientist, I&C
Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Projects: A number of projects
using
advanced computing methods fuzzy for
reactor safety, diagnostics and control (see funded research).
January 1989 to June 1989: Research Associate,
Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Projects:
Applications of expert systems and artificial
intelligence to nuclear engineering; thermohydraulic simulations for the
Hope
Creek and Salem power plants using RELAP5.
August 1986 to January 1989: Research
Assistant to Professor M. Ragheb. Projects: Expert system based probabilistic
and
deterministic decision-making methodologies
for plant monitoring, risk assessment and accident analysis; coupled
procedural-symbolic computations on
a CRAY Supercomputer.
May 1985 to June 1986: Licensing &
Safeguards Engineer, Sargent & Lundy Engineers, Chicago. Projects:
Safeguards
calculations for TVA's Sequoyah Plant,
assisted Licensing Project Engineer in coordinating the Safety Analysis
Report.
Provided support for the hearings before
the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) and the Atomic Safety
and
Licensing Board (ASLB).
March 1984 to May 1985: Nuclear Engineer,
Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety, Springfield, Illinois. Projects:
Development
of an automated monitoring and emergency
response system for the state of Illinois.
January 1981 to June 1983: Research/Teaching
Assistant, University of Illinois. Projects: Fusion power systems studies,
risk
assessment, assisted in teaching the
beginning graduate course in nuclear power.
Organizing Committee Member, Artificial
Neural Networks in Engineering ANNIE-94, International Neural Network
Conference, November 13-16, Saint Louis,
Missouri, 1994.
Organizing Committee Member, Artificial
Neural Networks in Engineering ANNIE-93, International Neural Network Society
Conference, November 14-17, Saint Louis,
Missouri, 1993.
Session Organizer, Fuzzy Logic in the
Design of Expert Systems, American Nuclear Society Annual Conference, San
Diego,
California, June 20-24, 1993.
Conference Officer, Fifth Topical Meeting
on Robotics and Remote Systems, American Nuclear Society, Knoxville,
Tennessee, April 26-29, 1993.
Organizing Committee Member, Artificial
Neural Networks in Engineering ANNIE-92, INNS Conference, November 10-13,
Saint Louis, Missouri, 1992.
Co-chair, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems
Applications Session, 54th American Power Conference, Chicago, April
13-15, 1992.
Program Committee Member, 3rd International
Conference on Tools for Artificial Intelligence, TAI91, IEEE Computer Society
Conference, November 10-13, San Jose,
California, 1991.
Conference Organizer, 8th Power Plant
Dynamics Control & Testing Symposium, organized session "Expert Systems
and
Applied Artificial Intelligence in Power
Plant Control and Monitoring," Knoxville, May 27-29, 1992.
Session Organizer and Co-Chair, Thermoeconomic
Analysis II, International Conference on the Analysis of Thermal and
Energy Systems, ATHENS-91, Athens, June
1991. Organizing Commitee Member, American Society of Cybernetics
Conference, Urbana, Illinois, December
5-7, 1988.
Fuzzy Logic and Soft Computing, Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
Thessaloniki, April 13, 1994.
Fuzzy Approaches to Engineering, Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of
Athens, March 21, 1994.
Fuzzy Logic and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Computer Science, University of Athens, March 22, 1994.
Neuro-Fuzzy Approaches to Virtual Measurement
& Control in Nuclear Reactor Systems, Nuclear Industry Forum of Japan,
Tokyo, July 22, 1993
Neuro-fuzzy Approaches for the Intelligent
Management of Complex Systems, 16th Artificial Intelligence Research Group
Meeting, JAERI, Japan, July 20, 1993
Recent Developments in Neuro-Fuzzy Applications
in Nuclear Systems, Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo, Japan,
December 15, 1992.
Anticipatory Systems and Neuro-fuzzy Measurement and Control, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, December 2, 1992.
Neuro-Fuzzy Expert Engineering Applications,
Department of Electrical Engineering, Helsinki University of Technology,
Helsinki, Finland, August 30, 1992
A Fuzzy-Neural Approach to Anticipatory
Reactor Control, Department of Nuclear Engineering Colloquium, University
of
California, Berkeley, March 30, 1992.
Fuzzy Logic in Engineering, Democritos National Laboratory, Athens, Greece, December 19-20, 1991.
Fuzzy Logic Industrial Applications, Barnant Instrument Company, Barrington, Illinois, May 2, 1991.
Hypertext and Integration, Instrumentation
and Controls Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
August 28, 1990. Engineering Applications
of Fuzzy Logic, Department of Chemical Engineering, The University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, July 25, 1990.
Fuzzy Logic in Engineering, Nuclear Engineering
Department Seminar, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, October 12,
1989.
Engineering Anticipatory Systems, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico, April 20, 1989.
Expert Systems for Reactor Monitoring,
Nuclear Engineering Department Seminar, University of Illinois, Urbana,
Illinois, July
30, 1987.
MS Theses
J. A. Boshers, Development of an Expert
System that Aids Reactor Operations Personnel in the Event of a Severe
Accident,
Department of Nuclear Engineering, (R.
E. Uhrig, co-chairman) May 1990.
M. Travis, A Neural Network Methodology
for Check Valve Diagnostics, Department of Nuclear Engineering, December
1991.
R. B. Michaels, A Self Configuring High-Order
Neural Network, Department of Engineering Science & Mechanics, December
1991.
PhD Dissertations
J. Reyes, Knowledge-Based Radiological
Planning and Optimization using Fuzzy Logic, Department of Nuclear Engineering,
(R. E. Uhrig, co-chairman) May 1992.
A. Ikonomopoulos, Virtual Measurements
Using Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic for Complex System Monitoring,
Department of Nuclear Engineering, (R.
E. Uhrig, co-chairman), August 1992.
"Schools of Engineering Teaching Award". Best Teacher Award for the School of Nuclear Engineering, 1997-98.
"General Electric Teaching Award," $5,000
award to an outstanding graduate student with a commitment to an academic
position after graduation, academic
year 1986-1987.
"Magnetic Fusion Energy Fellowship,"
Research fellowship spent at the laboratories of Westinghouse Electric
Co. in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 1982
to July 1982.
"E. J. James Scholar," University of Illinois, 1977-78.
"N. Stoyanoff Award in Engineering," Rockford, Illinois, 1977.
Nuclear Engineering Faculty Representative
to the "Dean's Committee on Computer Aided Instruction," College of
Engineering, The University of Tennessee,
1990-1991.
Faculty Representative, College of Engineering
Computer Communications Committee, The University of Tennessee,
1991-1992.
American Nuclear Society Faculty Advisor at The University of Tennessee, 1989-1990, 1991-1992.
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| Atomic Energy Society of Japan (AESJ) | |
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
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Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) |
| IFSA | International Fuzzy Systems Association (IFSA) |
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International Neural Network Society (INNS) |
| Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) | Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) |
