Majdi Radaideh

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radaideh@mit.edu
About

Majdi I. Radaideh completed his B.Sc. in nuclear engineering from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, his M.S. and Ph.D. desgrees in nuclear engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and postdoctoral studies from MIT. He is currently at Oak Ridge National Laboratory conducting research on autonomous control, anomaly detection, and uncertainty quantification to reduce mechanical/electrical system interruptions of the Spallation Neutron Source.

Research: 

High Fidelity Analysis and Techno Economic Assessment of the Transformational Challenge Reactor Concepts and Technologies
Development of reinforcement learning code package for core design optimization of PWRs and BWRs
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Publications: 

Large-scale design optimisation of boiling water reactor bundles with neuroevolution
Rule-based reinforcement learning methodology to inform evolutionary algorithms for constrained optimization of engineering applications
Physics-informed reinforcement learning optimization of nuclear assembly design

News: 

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