2023

• Dr. Modarres Elevates to the Rank of Life Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), March 2023
• Lab member Samantha Wismer Wins DOE NEUP Fellowship, May 2023
• CRR Unveils Newly Renovated Space and Fosters Collaborative Environment, July 2023
• CRR Shines at PSA 2023: Celebrating Excellence in Probabilistic Safety Assessment, July 2023
• ENRE Alum Receives Nation’s Highest Award for Technological Achievement, August 2023
• CRR Publishes Student Spotlight on Lab Member, Camille Levine, October 2023.
• CRR Publishes Student Spotlight on Lab Member, Jessica Zhu, November 2023.
• CRR Publishes Student Spotlight on Lab Member, Joseph O’Leary, December 2023.

2022

• Dr. Groth Wins the Landis Young Member Engineering Achievement Award, June 2022
• ENRE Students Wrap Up Spring 2022 with Many Awards, May 2022.
• SyRRA Lab Members Represent UMD at the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, May 2022.
• Lab member Camille Levine Wins DOE NEUP Fellowship, April 2022.
• CRR publishes Student Spotlight on lab member, Ketsiya Mundoga, February 2022.

2021

• Dr. Groth Wins the 2021 David Okrent Award for Nuclear Safety
• Maryland Graduate Engineering Ranked #10 Public in the Nation, March 2021.
• CRR publishes Student Spotlight on lab member, Madison West, March 2021.
• Dr. Katrina Groth Wins NSF CAREER Award, February 2021.
• Dr. Katrina Groth designed and delivered a vetting program for the inaugural “Doyenne Reliability Engineering Program” (DREP), a partnership between CRR and the Doyenne Initiative (DI), for Mozambican women to pursue graduate education in Reliability Engineering at UMD, January 2021.

2020

• Dr. Katrina Groth Gives a Presentation at the Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering and Sciences, December 2020.
• CRR publishes Student Spotlight on lab member, Vincent “Vinnie” Paglioni, November 2020.
• Dr. Katrina Groth publishes Conference Proceedings Report: ASME-SERAD and UMD-CRR Interactive seminar & pre-workshop on the intersection of PRA and PHM, October 2020.
• SyRRA lab members held an outdoor, socially-distanced picnic to kickoff the Fall 2020 semester.
• CRR publishes Student Spotlight on lab member, Andrés Ruiz-Tagle, September 2020.
• Lab member Austin Lewis named one of the winners of Clark School 3 Minute Thesis competition, July 2020.
• SyRRA Lab continues to hold lab meetings via Zoom, June 2020.
• CRR publishes a Student Spotlight on lab member, Ramin Moradi, May 2020.
• Dr. Katrina Groth and Austin Lewis publish a cover story in Algorithms, April 2020.
• Dr. Katrina Groth joins Editorial Board of Reliability & System Safety, February 2020.
• CRR publishes a Student Spotlight on lab member, Austin Lewis, January 2020.

2019

• Lab members Vincent Paglioni and Austin Lewis attend American Nuclear Society Young Professionals Congress, December 2019.
• Dr. Katrina Groth presents at multiple seminars across November and December 2019, December 2019.
• Dr. Katrina Groth presents at UT Knoxville Nuclear Engineering Colloquium, November 2019.
• CRR publishes a Student Spotlight on lab member Camila Correa Jullian, October 2019
• Roohollah Heidary to defend dissertation, October 2019
• Austin Lewis presents independent and SyRRA Lab research at ESREL, September 2019
• The SyRRA Lab tours UMD STEM Library and Makerspace, August 2019
• Dr. Katrina Groth attends educator visit of nuclear navy facilities, July 2019
• CRR publishes a Student Spotlight on lab member, Roohollah Heidary, July 2019
• R3 Data Workshop Summary Now Available, June 2019
• Groth elected to ANS Nuclear Installations Safety Division (NISD) Executive Committee for 3 year term, 6/10/2019-6/10/2022.
• Groth co-organized R3Data Workshop: Harnessing data for enhanced understanding of risk, reliability, and resilience, May 7-8, 2019, College Park, MD. Summary of the workshop can be found here.
• Groth participated in an Invited Plenary Panel at PSA 2019 (16th International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis) on “PSA Research and Education at Universities: History, Impact, Challenges, and Future Outlook,” May, 2, 2019.
• Bensi, Groth Selected for Nuclear Facility Risk Assessment Faculty Development Program, April 2019.
• Groth selected as invited panelist for UMD Graduate School “PhD Career Pathways Conference,” April 19, 2019.
• Groth presented at Sandia National Laboratories, “Managing risk and reliability in complex systems: Using data analytics to improve decisions,” March, 22, 2019.
• Groth presented at NRC HRA Data workshop, “Insights for Future HRA data collection based on research using HRA data,” March 14, 2019.
• Groth & Bensi presented at NRC RIC (Regulatory Information Conference), “Opportunities for using big data to improve online risk monitoring for nuclear power plants,” March 13, 2019.
• Ramin Moradi wins Student Merit Award at Society of Risk Analysis annual meeting, January 2019.

2018

• Ramin Moradi selected as the Graduate School’s Outstanding Research Assistant Award for AY 2018-19, December 2018.
• Groth and Bensi presented “Opportunities for using big data to improve online risk monitoring for nuclear power plants” at Big Data for Nuclear Power Plants Workshop, December 11, 2018, Columbus, OH.
• Groth moderated “Use of HRA data” at UCLA’s HRA Society workshop, September 16, 2018.
• Groth, with John L. Russell, Daniel E. Small, Mark W. Koch, Robert J. Anderson, Jason J. Andersen, issued patent for VMD Fused Radar- A hyper-volumetric ultra-low NAR sensor system. SD12835.0/S132622. US Patent 10,062,255, issued August 28, 2018.
• Groth presented the Keynote Talk at H2@SCALE Kickoff Meeting, “Quantifying and managing risk in hydrogen technologies,” August 2, 2018, Chicago, IL.
• Groth was invited to speak to “Managing risk and reliability in hydrogen technologies” at the U.S. Department of Energy Fuel Cell Technologies Office, April 17, 2018.
• Groth presented “Explorations of methods for using SACADA data due to Bayesian update HEPs” at U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Human Reliability Analysis Data workshop, March, 15, 2018.
• Groth received “Outstanding Reviewer” status for RESS for being a “reviewer who [is] in the top 10th percentile in terms of the number of reviews completed within two years for that journal, are awarded Outstanding Reviewer status,” March, 2018.
• Groth selected as panelist for NTNU Energy Transition Conference 2018, February 28, 2018, Trondheim, Norway.
• Groth selected as invited speaker for NTNU The Role of Natural Gas workshop, February 26, 2018, Trondheim, Norway.
• Groth received “Outstanding Reviewer” status for IJHE for being a “reviewer who [is] in the top 10th percentile in terms of the number of reviews completed within two years for that journal, are awarded Outstanding Reviewer status,” February 2018.