NPRE assistant professor Dr. Syed Bahauddin Alam has been a partner in a project led by Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and sponsored by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to develop online monitoring nuclear digital twins for nuclear power plants. This project is led by INL scientist Dr. Vaibhav Yadav and aims to revolutionize digital twins for online monitoring.
This project aims to develop and demonstrate use cases of digital twins for nuclear application and address key regulatory aspects associated with operation and maintenance of nuclear structures, systems, and components. Prof. Alam's expertise in trustworthy & explainable AI and uncertainty quantification will be leveraged in this effort. Prof. Alam will develop and deploy advanced analytical methods to assess and mitigate uncertainties arising from machine learning models, simulations, and data.
- Dr. Syed Bahauddin Alam, UIUC: " I would like to thank the Principal Investigator of the project, Dr. Vaibhav Yadav, and the INL team, Dr. Vivek Agarwal, Dr. Edward Chen, and Dr. Chaitee Godbole for their outstanding support in bringing this collaboration into reality. This project presents a significant opportunity to push the boundaries of real-time nuclear digital twin applications. Our collaboration with INL allows us to address uncertainty in model development and integration, Explainability, and verification and validation of integrated models.”
- Dr. Vaibhav Yadav, INL: “We are excited to collaborate with Prof. Alam and his team, Kazuma Kobayashi and Farid Ahmad, who bring their unique research capabilities in explainability, verification, and validation of digital twin enabling technologies. This INL-UIUC collaboration holds the promise to provide guidance to nuclear energy stakeholders on key technical and regulatory aspects of digital twin applications.”
The hope is that this collaboration and support will push the nuclear digital twin to new heights, not only in terms of scientific understandings but also in terms of providing guidance on key technical and regulatory aspects of digital twin applications.