Weiju Ren

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About Weiju Ren

Dr. Weiju Ren’s research and development (R&D) interests cover high temperature materials, mechanical behavior and analysis, materials informatics, verification and validation (V&V) of advanced modeling and simulation, and integrated computational materials engineering. He currently serves as Manager of Operations for Department of Energy’s (DOE) Gen IV Materials Handbook Project to develop materials database system and coordinate international collaboration in materials for the Very High Temperature Reactor (VHTR) development, which includes former and present member countries of Australia, Canada, China, the European Union, France, Japan, South Africa, South Korea, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and leads the development of the ASME Materials Properties Database system to support ASME codes and standards. In R&D for V&V of computational modeling and simulation, he leads the technical development of the Nuclear Energy - Knowledgebase for Advance Modeling and Simulation (NE-KAMS). He is a member of the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) E08 for fatigue and fracture and E28 for mechanical testing; the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code (BPVC) WG Materials Database, Section II Committee on Materials, Section II SG Nonferrous Alloys, Section II TG Data Analysis, and Section WG Allowable Stress Criteria; and the American Society of Metals (ASM). An interview with Ren can be found in the following URL. https://insidehpc.com/2019/08/interview-knowledgebase-is-power-for-nuclear-reactor-developers/