Patrick Myers

Background

About Patrick Myers

As a second year PhD student studying Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan, I continue to pursue a career of software development for nuclear reactor physics. My research focuses on particle transport under Professors Brian Kiedrowski and Majdi Radaideh. My recent experiences have taken me to laboratory internships at Argonne National Laboratory and Oak Ridge National Laboratory working on neutral Monte Carlo particle transport codes. My independent research has resulted in several code bases including pyMAISE and tt_nte. pyMAISE (Python-based Michigan Artificial Intelligence Standard Environment) is a parallel automatic machine learning Python library for nuclear applications with support for preprocessing, model tuning and training, model evaluation, and explainability. My current research work, implemented in tt_nte, focuses on the application of tensor networks to deterministically solve the neutron transport equation at reduced memory and computational cost to conventional matrix free approaches. I look forward to the challenges and opportunities ahead as I begin to focus on my dissertation research.