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October 5-9th

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DIET2026 Organizing Committee

Organizing Committee

Kevin Lee

Conference Co-Chair

Jennifer Wong

Conference Co-Chair

Gabe Aversano

Plenary Committee Chair

Chris Cochrane

Technical Committee Chair

Ed Bradley

International Engagement Chair

Ed Ho

Organizing Committee & Treasurer

John McIntosh

Student & Academia Chair

Moe Fadaee

Organizing Committee

Daniel Wells

Organizing Committee

Emma Wong

Organizing Committee

Plenary Committee

Gabe Aversano

Plenary Committee Chair

Jennifer Wong

Plenary Committee

Cindy Vestergaard

Plenary Committee

Sarah Case Lackner

Plenary Committee Member

Jenell Hogg

Plenary Committee Member

Nazgol Shahbandi

Plenary Committee Member

Mohmmad Movassati

Plenary Committee Member

Kevin Lee

Plenary Committee

Kevin Lee

Plenary Committee

Kevin Lee leads the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission's (CNSC) team analyzing disruptive, innovative and emerging technology (DIET) and its application in the nuclear industry. The DIET team evaluates DIET and readies the CNSC to regulate DIET. Kevin's duties also include readying the CNSC' s regulatory framework for Advanced Reactor Technology (ART) and Small Modular Reactors (SMRs). Kevin is also active on numerous other policy and regulatory files at the CNSC including fusion technologies. Kevin also leads the CNSC's Meet the Nuclear Regulator (MTNR) team which provides outreach from the perspective of the CNSC on numerous topics relevant to stakeholders.

Robert Reipas

Plenary Committee Member

Emma Wong

Plenary Committee Member

Ed Ho

Plenary Committee Member

Holly Longhurst

Plenary Committee Member

Jenny Cox

Plenary Committee Member

Jennifer Ward

Plenary Committee Member

Daniel Wells

Plenary Committee Member

Robin Manchanda

Plenary Committee

Technical Committee

Chris Cochrane

Technical Co-chair

Chris Cochrane

Technical Co-chair

Chris is the Technical Advisor within the Directorate of Security and Safeguards at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission.

Ali Khafagy

Technical Committee

Ross Harper

Technical Committee

Manfred Hammers

Technical Committee

Manfred Hammers

Technical Committee

Publishing web-based Interactive Electronic Manuals and Authoring safety-related technical documentation for 20 over years. Communicating and assessing mission-critical project documents. Single-Source Publishing the Aerospace way. • Change Management • Content Management • Continuous Improvement • Documentation Auditing and Assessments • Content Standardization Development • Digitization Transformation to Structured Content

Dan Rosas

Technical Committee

Ronald Rosario

Technical Committee

Stacey Zoutis

Technical Committee

Stacey Zoutis

Technical Committee

Stacey Zoutis is currently pursuing her MASc in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. She is a member of the Cognitive Engineering Lab where she specializes in human factors research with a focus on control room design for small modular reactors. Stacey was introduced to the nuclear industry in 2022 through a summer internship with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC) as a member of the regulatory policy analysis team. She has since completed two additional internships at CNSC in the area of human and organizational performance. Stacey previously attended McMaster University, where she attained an Honours BSc in Psychology, Neuroscience, and Behaviour.

Ashlea Colton

Technical Committee

Ashlea Colton

Technical Committee

With a Master’s Degree in Modelling & Computational Science and a Bachelor of Engineering in Nuclear Engineering from Ontario Tech University, Ashlea has focused on reactor physics analysis and computational sciences in her 15+ years at CNL. She’s gained extensive experience leading complex computational research projects. Just recently, she oversaw the procurement, acquisition, and installation of CNL’s newest high-performance computing cluster named Athena. Ashlea is also a champion for integrating computational techniques in all aspects of research at CNL. This passion led her to co-organize the first Canadian Nuclear Society (CNS) conference on AI and Machine Learning in 2020.

Catalina Anghel

Technical Committee

Academic Committee

John McIntosh

Student & Academia Chair

Amir Ghorbani

Academic Committee

Amir Ghorbani

Academic Committee

PhD Candidate Since September 2019 Department of Mechanical and Materials engineering Queen’s University Under supervision of: Dr. Laurent K. Béland

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