William Walters Email & Phone Number

Cranberry Township, Pa, Us

-Leading Core Design for the eVinci microreactor and Nuclear Test Reactor-Supporting Core Design for the astroVinci space-based microreactor

University Park, Pa, Us

-Research in Monte Carlo, deterministic, and hybrid method development for nuclear applications. Neutronics modeling of nuclear systems for reactor design, shielding, and nuclear safeguards.-Currently teaching Advanced Reactor Design, Senior Design, and Monte Carlo Methods for Particle Transport

University Park, Pa, Us

Blacksburg, Va, Us

•Performed Monte Carlo simulations and burnup analysis of the accelerator-driven, molten salt GEM*STAR reactor. •Analyzed and optimized the neutron detection portion of the CHANDLER reactor anti-neutrino detector using time-dependent Monte Carlo simulations.

Blacksburg, Va, Us

• Dissertation research in computational methods for radiation transport, including algorithm development and implementation in FORTRAN. Extensive use of R for data processing and visualization.• Developed and implemented a parallel adaptive quadrature method for the discrete ordinates code TITAN using Fortran and MPI. Reduced computation time by a factor of 2-4 compared to the standard uniform quadrature approach.• Developed multi-stage response function methodologies to very quickly and accurately solve radiation transport problems in spent fuel pool monitoring and safeguards monitoring• Modeled and analyzed systems in reactor physics, nuclear non-proliferation, spent fuel pool monitoring, criticality safety, and reactor dosimetry for funded research projects using deterministic, Monte Carlo, and hybrid transport methods as well as industry standard depletion codes in SCALE.• Automated the generation, processing and analysis of data using scripting tools and data processing tools such as Bash, Perl and R.• Teaching assistant for Monte Carlo Methods and Radiation Transport Theory• Published research papers in peer-reviewed journals and presented at international conferences.• Worked on several other grant-funded projects in nuclear engineering and assisted in writing grant proposals• Teaching assistant for Monte Carlo Methods for two semesters, helped advisor write a textbook on the subject

Gainesville, Florida, Us

•Developed and implemented an algorithm in FORTRAN and VBA for detection of proliferation of nuclear material from a spent nuclear fuel pool•Teaching assistant for Monte Carlo Methods, Radiation Transport Theory, and Reactor Thermal Hydraulics

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

• UBC Fisheries Centre. Optimized the Ecopath software, implemented improved mathematical algorithms, and converted it to run in a multithreaded environment using VB.NET. • Used proper version control and documentation procedures in a team software development environment

Vancouver, British Columbia, Ca

Performing and assisting with physics demonstrations for students, developing new demonstrations.

Burnaby, British Columbia, Ca

• NSERC Undergraduate Student Research Award. Developed a heuristic Monte Carlo algorithm to perform and optimize mapping of arbitrary graphs onto the D-Wave chip architecture using MATLAB.

Phd, Nuclear Engineering

Msc, Nuclear And Radiological Engineering

Basc, Engineering Physics