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Alireza Haghighat ALIREZA HAGHIGHAT Virginia Tech Research Center, Virginia Tech, 900 N Glebe Road, Arlington, VA, 22203 [email protected], (571) 858-3333 (office), (352) 871-1099 (cell) EDUCATION 1986 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering 1981 University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, M.S. in Nuclear Engineering 1978 Pahlavi (Shiraz) University, Shiraz, Iran, B.S. in Physics EXPERIENCE Jan 2011 Professor, Nuclear Eng. Program, Mechanical Eng. Department, Virginia Tech Sept 2009 – Jan 2011 Florida Power & Light Endowed Chair Professor Jan 2010 Chairman of Board, SUNRISE LLC; member since 2007 Sept 2009 –June 2010 Director of UFTR (University of Florida Training Reactor) Aug 2001- Sept 2009 Professor and Chair, University of Florida Oct 2008 – Sept 2009 Interim Director, University of Florida Training Reactor (UFTR) April 2004 – present Interim Director of Florida Institute of Nuclear Detection & Security (FINDS) Dec. 2005 – present President and CEO of HSW Technologies, LLC (www.hswtech.com) June 2006 – June 2007 Chair, Nuclear Engineering Department Heads Organization (NEDHO) Aug 1999-Dec.2005 President and CEO of H&S Adv. Comp. Tech. Inc. (www.hsact.com) Aug 1998-July 2001 Professor, Penn State University Feb.-Aug., 1998 Visiting Scientist at SCK•CEN, Mol, Belgium August 1993 Associate Professor, Penn State University July-Aug., 1990 Faculty Research Participant, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Engineering, Physics and Mathematics Division (EPMD) August 1989 Assistant Professor, Penn State University June 1988 Research Associate, Penn State University Nov. 1986 Research Assistant, Penn State University PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES (SELECTED) Chairman of the Board of SUNRISE LLC (Jan 2010), a member of Executive Committee since 2007. Vice-Chair, ANS Reactor Physics Division, 2011-12 Co-Chair, Technical Program of 2010 NPIC & HMIT conference Chair, NEDHO (2006-07); Executive Committee of NEDHO, 2007-2008 Chair, Mathematics and Computation Division, American Nuclear Society, 2005-2006. Chair, Program Committee, MCD, ANS, 1992-2002. Chair, Committee on particle transport methods for reactor cavity Dosimetry, ANS19.10, 1992-2002. Reviewer/Organizer, Several Journals, National and international meetings & government agencies. HONORS AND AWARDS (SELECTED) Alpha Nu Sigma - National Nuclear Engineering Honor Society, Washington Alpha Chapter, 1981. Sigma Xi - The Scientific Research Society, Penn State University, 1988. Who's Who in Science and Engineering, 1989-present. Several best paper awards (Reactor Physics and Mathematics & Computation Divisions of the American Nuclear Society) A member of International Advisory Committee for the Nuclear & Quantum Eng. Dept., KAIST, Korea Received a recognition award from DOE for his leader & contribution to the UFTR fuel conversion Invited lecturer at Fredric Joliot & Otto Hahn Summer School, Cadarache, France, 2006; Invited Professor, CEA-EDF-INRIA Summer School on Particle Transport: Numerical Methods and Applications, Paris, France, June 2009. Fellow, American Nuclear Society, 2002 (For pioneering contributions to the development of accurate and efficient deterministic and stochastic particle transport theory methods and their application to different complex nuclear systems; for major contribution to multigroup cross section generation, differencing schemes, domain decomposition formulations for parallel computing, iterative and acceleration techniques, and for work in automating the Monte Carlo variance reduction of fixed- source problems). RESEARCH Projects & Experience Professor Alireza Haghighat is the Director of the Virginia Tech Transport Theory Group (VT 3G), and Anchor faculty of Nuclear Science and Engineering Lab (NSEL) at ICTAS (Institute of Critical Technology and Advanced Science). He has been involved in development and modification of large computer codes for nuclear reactor simulations for the past 25 years. In particular, he has been involved in development of accurate and efficient particle transport theory methods and their application to different complex nuclear systems. He led the development of the PENTRAN 3-D parallel Sn Transport, A3MCNP (Automated Adjoint Accelerated MCNP) Monte Carlo code systems, TITAN 3-D Hybrid code system, CPXSD (Contributon Point-wise Cross-Section Driven) package for automatic problem- dependent multigroup cross-sections, and working on new diagnostic and acceleration algorithms for eigenvalue Monte Carlo and hybrid methods for homeland security and medical applications. Further, between June 2005 and September 2006, he led a DOE-sponsored project on the "HEU to LEU Fuel Conversion of the University of Florida Training Reactor (UFTR)," and currently, he is leading the ‘UFTR Control System Upgrade’ project, which involves design, licensing and construction of a fully digital protection/control system. For this project, Prof. Haghighat has received over $1.7 million. This project contributes to licensing issues of digital control that has been the major obstacle preventing the use of digital control in nuclear reactors in the United States. Prof. Haghighat’s research has been funded by various industry and government organizations including AREVA, DOE, GPU Nuclear, Harris Semiconductors, IBM, INEEL/INL, LLNL, NIH, NSF, ORNL, Pennsylvania Power & Light, Philadelphia Electric Company, Progress Energy Florida, Sandia National Lab, State of Florida, and Westinghouse Between August 2001 and Sept 2009, Prof Haghighat served as the Chair of the NRE Department. At this capacity, he raised significant amount of funding for department’s enhancement; the student enrollment increased from 75 to 217, department’s research dollars increased from ~$2 million to $5.6 million, and hired five new faculty members, several staff members, and the department graduate ranking increased to 8 in the US SELECTD PUBLICATIONS (Selected recent publications; published over 220 refereed articles) • Yi, C., and A. Haghighat, “A 3-D Block-Oriented Hybrid Discrete Ordinates and Characteristics Method,” Nuclear Science & Engineering, March 2010. • Yi, C., and A. Haghighat, “Hybrid Sn and Ray-Tracing with Fictitious Quadrature for Simulation of SPECT,” International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods & Reactor Physics (M&C 2009) , Saratoga Springs, New York, May 3-7, 2009. • Wenner, M., and A. Haghighat, “A Combined Diagnostic Approach for Monte Carlo Source Convergence Identification,”, International Conference on Mathematics, Computational Methods & Reactor Physics (M&C 2009) , Saratoga Springs, New York, May 3-7, 2009. • & Reactor Physics (M&C 2009) , Saratoga Springs, New York, May 3-7, 2009. • Haghighat, A. and G. E. Sjoden, “3-D particle transport methods and their applications," a chapter in the ACS/Oxford UP book on "Applied Modeling and Computations in Nuclear Science,” Feb. 2006. • Gianluca Longoni, Alireza Haghighat., Ce Yi, and Glenn E. Sjoden, ”Benchmarking of PENTRAN- SSn Parallel Transport Code and FAST Preconditioning Algorithm using the VENUS-2 MOX-Fueled Benchmark Problem,” Journal of Testing and Evaluation, (2006) • Shedlock D. and A. Haghighat, “Neutron analysis of spent fuel storage installation using parallel computing and advance discrete ordinates and Monte Carlo techniques,” Journal of Radiation Protection Dosimetry, 116(1-4):662-666, Oxford University Press, Dec. 2005. • B. Dionne and A. Haghighat, “Development of the ADEIS Variance Reduction Methodology for Coupled Electron-Photon Transport,” Proceedings of MC2005 Conference, April 4-7, 2005, Chattanooga, TN • Alpan, F. and A. Haghighat, “Development of the CPXSD Methodology for Generation of Fine- Group Libraries for Shielding Applications,” Nuclear Science and Engineering, Vol. 149, 1-14 (2005). • Longoni, G., A. Haghighat, and G. Sjoden, “A New Synthetic Acceleration Technique Based on the Simplified Even-Parity SN Equations,” Transport Theory and Statistical Physics, 33: 347–360, 2004. • Haghighat, A. and J.C. Wagner, “Monte Carlo Variance Reduction with Deterministic Importance Functions,” Progress of Nuclear Energy Journal, Vol. 42 (1), Jan. 2003. .
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