Bio
Areas of technical expertise include: Monte Carlo code development, variance reduction, development of hybrid Monte Carlo/deterministic methods for shielding calculations, application of hybrid methods to difficult shielding problems. Currently active in: the application of radiation transport calculations to nuclear security and non-proliferation problems. Past areas of interest have included medical applications of radiation transport, facility vulnerability calculations and other defense-related applications of radiation transport and nuclear decay calculations.
Awards
UT-Battelle Award – Community Outreach, 2018
Significant Event Award, for Support to DOE in response to the crisis at Fukushima, 2011
UT-Battelle Award – Team Accomplishment, Engineering Research and Development, 2010
Nuclear Science & Technology Division Scientific and Technical Award, December 2006
American Nuclear Society Mark Mills Award, 1999
Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America, 1986
Education
Peplow holds a B.S. in Physics from Western Illinois University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Nuclear Engineering from North Carolina State University.
Trademarks and Patents
“Using Augmented Reality for Visualizing and Interacting with Ionizing Radiation Data,” which is described in United States Patent Application No. 18/134,649 filed on April 14, 2023. (A non-exclusive patent license agreement was made with the Teletrix Corporation, May 2023)