Dr. Prashant Jain
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Prashant Jain is the Section Head for the Advanced Reactor Engineering and Development Section in the Nuclear Energy & Fuel Cycle Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). He is responsible for providing technical leadership and line management support for 60+ research and technical staff to pursue scientific and technical innovations in enhancing nuclear safety, security, and performance of nuclear facilities and applications; improving construction, operation, maintenance, and integration of nuclear energy with other sources; de-risking advanced reactors through innovative designs, simulations, and prototype demonstrations; advancing risk-informed decision-making, compliance, and capacity building for nuclear energy; and strengthening digital twins for fission, fusion & other energy systems through I&C, data, and models. In addition, Dr. Jain also supports the DOE/NNSA's Office of International Nuclear Security (NA-211) as the Engineering and Technology Solutions Pillar Lead for its Analytics & Innovation program. With over 20 years of experience, Dr. Jain specializes in advanced multi-physics modeling, applications of machine learning and artificial intelligence for nuclear digital twins, nuclear thermal design and safety analyses, safety/security integration in reactor designs, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), single- and two-phase turbulent flows and heat transfer, analytical benchmarks, the lattice Boltzmann method, and parallel scientific software development.