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2026 ANS Annual Conference
May 31–June 3, 2026
Denver, CO|Sheraton Denver
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Technical Session|Human Factors, Instrumentation, and Controls (HFICD)
Wednesday, June 3, 2026|10:00–11:45AM MDT|Governor's Square 15
Session Chair:
Syed Bahauddin Alam
Alternate Chair:
Vasileios Theos (Purdue Univ.)
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Enabling Real-Time Operation of the PUR-1 Digital Twin via Surrogate Models of High-Fidelity Simulations
10:00–10:20AM MDT
Vasileios Theos (Purdue Univ.), Jonah Lau (Purdue Univ.), Konstantinos Gkouliaras (Purdue Univ.), Noah Fillgrove, Stylianos Chatzidakis (Purdue Univ.)
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Digital Twin Development for an Experimental Microreactor Thermal System
10:20–10:40AM MDT
Matthew Barrows (TAMU), Jian Tao (TAMU), Joseph Seo (TAMU), Hansol Kim (TAMU), Yassin A. Hassan (TAMU)
Energy-Efficient Scientific Foundation Model for Advanced Reactor Digital Twins
10:40–11:00AM MDT
Jay P. Yoo (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jason Yoo (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Jaewan Park (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Syed Bahauddin Alam
Physics-Constrained Digital Twin for Predicting Reactor Power State of Research Reactor
11:00–11:20AM MDT
Quinnan Hetrick, Lei R. Cao (Ohio State)
Virtual Sensing for Dynamic Systems: Enabling Digital Twin–Driven Foundation Models for Multi-Modal Monitoring for Advanced Reactors
11:20–11:40AM MDT
Kazuma Kobayashi (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Sai Puppala (University of Texas, El Paso), Jay Phil Yoo (Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Md Jahangir Alam, Sajedul Talukder, Syed Bahauddin Alam
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