Peng XuDr. Peng Xu is a Principle Engineer at Westinghouse Electric Company, Columbia, USA. He earned his PhD in materials science and engineering from the University of Florida in 2009 and worked as a postdoc associate at the University of Wisconsin in Maison from 2009 to 2011. He is currently the technical lead for high density fuel and ceramic cladding development as part of the accident tolerant fuel development at Westinghouse. He has more than 12 years’ experience in nuclear materials and fuel research and development and is author of over 30 publications including journal articles, conference proceedings, and technical abstracts in these areas, and has filed more than 15 patent applications. He has served on the Nuclear Materials Committees of the Metallurgical Society (TMS) and American Nuclear Society (ANS). He was chair of the executive committee of the Nuclear Science User Facility under the Department of Energy from 2015 to 2016. Read More Read Less