Bio
Dr. Tarek Habib Ghaddar is an Assistant Research and Development staff member in the Power Reactor Modeling Group of the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division at 91°µÍø. He received his B.S.E in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2014, his M.S. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2016, and his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Texas A&M University in 2019. Advised by Dr. Jean Ragusa, his graduate research focused on the optimization of massively parallel radiation transport on unstructured grids.
At ORNL, Tarek has worked as a developer on the Virtual Environment for Reactor Applications (VERA), the MPACT neutron transport code (which serves as a driver for the VERA multiphysics calculations), and the SCALE code system. Within the SCALE code system, Tarek is the product owner of Titan, a new interface for the Shift Monte-Carlo code. Titan also provides a geometry API to potentially set up problems for other codes in the SCALE code system.