Dr. Guoqiang Wang
Chief Engineer
National Security Directorate,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Dr. Guoqiang Wang, ASME Fellow, is a chief engineer at National Security Directorate in Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Before his current role, Dr. Wang was a Consulting Engineer in the Methods and Technology Department of Westinghouse. He had worked for Westinghouse Electric Company LLC for 23 years. Dr. Wang has had 35 years of proven performance in the nuclear industry internationally.
Dr. Wang had worked as a technical expert in the fields of Thermal-Hydraulics (TH), advanced fuel development, safety analysis (including probabilistic safety assessment (PSA)) and testing. He led and set up a cold spray unit in 2018. Dr. Wang led and performed a number of tests in critical heat flux (CHF), crud deposition as well as ultra-high temperature steam oxidation tests. He was the co-founder of the methodology for Crud Induced Localized Corrosion (CILC) analyses. He was responsible for new methods developments, reload and power uprate safety analyses, advanced fuel development and support, customer and internal training, and licensing support of the Westinghouse accident tolerant fuel (ATF) designs, mechanical and TH testing at simulated PWR chemistry and operating conditions.
Dr. Wang is a member of the ASME Nuclear Engineering Division (NED) executive committee and a contributing member of ASME Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards (BNCS). He has been directly involved in the governance of the ASME through his contributions to the NED as Technical Program Co-chairperson and Chairperson, Organizing Committee Co-chairperson and Chairperson, Conference Co-chair and Chair of International Conference on Nuclear Engineering (ICONE) and Conference for Advanced Reactor Deployment (CARD) in recent years. Also, he has maintained strong interests and activity in the ASME/NED Technical Committees.
Dr. Wang received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Reactor Engineering in Tsinghua University in 1988. He worked at the China Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) for eight years before his graduate study at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) starting in 1996. He received his Doctoral Degree and concurrent MS Degrees in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at PSU, respectively.