Zack Taylor Email & Phone Number

Knoxville, Tn, Us

- Developed and maintained a variety of ML models related to visual and audio media- Maintained and developed backend features related to media acquisition and processing- Worked with a number of media processing and social media libraries in Python/Bash- Applied numerous mathematical principals to solve real work applications related to cluster scaling, object relations, and computer vision

Computational chemical engineer for nuclear reactor analysis- Developer of the Mole reactive chemical species transport code base on the MOOSE framework- Worked with experimentalist on analyzing Henry's law data for noble gas solubility in various salts- Member of numerous multidisciplinary teams working towards modeling and simulations tools for advanced nuclear reactor designs

Knoxville, Tennessee, United States

- Conducted research on liquid fueled molten salt reactor operation and preexisting simulation efforts for modeling physical and chemical phenomena.- Assisted in the development of species transport sub-package into CTF for molten salt reactor analysis.- Implemented gas sparging model for removal of gaseous fission products into CTF along with interfacial area tracking.- Assisted in the development of species transport API's for coupling multi-physics simulations.- Developed API for coupling species transport and the computational thermodynamic software package Thermochimica demonstrating functionality for modeling species transport coupled with thermodynamic calculations.- Member of multi-disciplinary team for the development of a chemical and physical property database for molten salts.- Implemented a number of Runge-Kutta and backward differencing formula methods for convection diffusion reaction problems in molten salt reactors.- Explored numerical frameworks for solving burnup calculations in molten salt reactors. -Developed multi-thread C++ library based on the Cauchy integral formula, Pade approximation, Taylor series and orthogonal polynomials for computing the exponential.- Developed scalar transport code to evaluate transient convection diffusion reaction problems based on the finite volume method with second order upwind TVD schemes.

Counce, Tennessee, United States

- Worked closely with engineers and plant personnel becoming familiar with: basic manufacturing processes process design, project engineering, project management, plant operations and safety procedures, and laboratory procedures and protocols.- Performed independent work on projects and team based engineering work on larger projects.- Gained initial exposure to smaller projects and progressed to larger and more complex projects within the plant environment; gained an understanding of automated manufacturing process design and became more involved in evaluating processes and optimizing systems.- Tracked and assisted in maintaining daily crude tall oil production.- Conducted and wrote study of inconsistencies with operator and laboratory white liquor TA results.- Applied fluid mechanics to assess volumetric flow rate of reactant into tall oil reactor and designed program to calculate total reactant added to each tall oil cook.- Successfully redesigned PI pages for a more efficient flow of information.- Preformed daily calorimetry test to track bark BTUs.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Nuclear Engineering

Master'S Degree, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor'S Degree, Chemical Engineering