Organizers of the 2013 Risk Management Embedded Topical Meeting


Honorary Chair: George Apostolakis, USNRC

General Chair: Ronald Knief, Sandia National Lab

Technical Program Chairs:

  • Zahra Mohaghegh, Dep. of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Eng., U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Ali Mosleh , Center for Risk and Reliability, University of Maryland

    • Deputy Technical Program Chairs:

  • Rick Grantom, South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company
  • Reza Kazemi, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
  • Kevin Coyne, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)


    • Technical Program Committee:

  • Amir Afzali, Southern Nuclear Operating Company, USA
  • Terje Aven , Department of Industrial Economics, Risk Management and Planning, University of Stavanger, Norway
  • Irv Badr, IBM Software Group, USA
  • Gregory B. Baecher , Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
  • Bob Bari, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
  • Tim Bedford, Business School, University of Strathclyde, UK
  • Vicki Bier, Department of Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
  • Sherry Borener, Federal Aviation Administration, USA
  • Ronald Boring, Idaho National Laboratory, USA
  • Jeff Brewer, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
  • William Burchill , Nuclear Engineering Department , University of Texas A&M, USA
  • Aris Christou, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
  • H.S. Cullingford, Risk Management Advocate, USA
  • Ahmed Elbanna, Civil Engineering Department, University of Illinois at Urabana-Champaign, USA
  • Woody Epstein, Scandpower, Japan
  • Karl Fleming, KNF Consulting Services LLC, USA
  • Katrina Groth, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
  • Yacov Haimes, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, University of Virginia, USA
  • Bill Hannaman, Jewal Consulting, USA
  • Margaret Harding, 4 Factor Consulting, USA
  • Steve Hess, Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), USA
  • Larry Hettinger, Liberty Mutual Research Institute for Safety, USA
  • Mohamed Hibti, Électricité de France (EDF), France
  • Mark Hoover, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA
  • Kenji Itoh, Department of IE and Management, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  • David Johnson, ABS consulting, USA
  • Ernie Kee, South Texas Nuclear Operating Company, USA
  • Bruce Letellier, Alion Science and Technology, USA
  • Enrique López Droguett, Department of Production Engineering, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
  • Mohammed Modarres, Reliability Engineering Program, University of Maryland, USA
  • Hamed Nejad, Liquid Robotics, USA
  • Bill Nelson, Det Norske Veritas , Inc., USA
  • Justin Pence, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
  • Luca Podofillini, Paul Scherrer Institute( PSI), Switzerland
  • Mark Prelas, Nuclear Engineering Department, University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
  • Antoine B. Rauzy, Computer Science Department, Ecole Polytechnique, France
  • Seyed A. Reihani, Dep. of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Eng., U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • William Sanders, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
  • Antonio Sanfilippo , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
  • Craig Sellers, Enercon Services, Inc., USA
  • Zdenko Simic, European Community Joint Research Centre - Institute for Energy and Transport, The Netherlands
  • Daniel Straub, Engineering Risk Analysis Group, Technical University of Munich, Germany
  • Rizwan Uddin, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
  • Steve Unwin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
  • Jan Erik Vinnem, Department of Marine Technology, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
  • Reino Virolainen, Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority, Finland
  • Enrico Zio, Energy Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy


    • Sponsor of the 2013 Risk Management Meeting:

  • American Nuclear Society-Nuclear Installations Safety Division
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    Co-Sponsors of the 2013 Risk Management Meeting:

  • Sandia National Laboratories-Nuclear Energy Safety Technology
  • Dep. of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Eng., U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  • Center for Risk and Reliability at the University of Maryland
  • Air Force Institute of Technology
  • University of Missouri-Nuclear Science & Engineering Institute
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    Co-Sponsors of the 2009 Risk Management Meeting:

  • B. John Garrick Foundation
  • Sandia National Laboratories-Nuclear Energy Safety Technology
  • Electric Power Research Institute
  • Institute for Nuclear Materials Management
  • Air Force Institute of Technology
  • University of Missouri-Nuclear Science & Engineering Institute
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