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Dr. Yassin Hassan is University Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, and the L.F. Peterson ’36 Chair II in Engineering. He is a professor in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and the J. Mike Walker ’66 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University. He is the Director of the Center for Advanced Small Modular and Microreactors (CASMR).

Prior to joining Texas A&M September 1986, he worked for seven years at Nuclear Power Division, Babcock & Wilcox Company, Lynchburg, Virginia. His research is in computational and experimental thermal hydraulics and advanced nuclear reactors. Othe interests are reactor safety, multiphase flows, turbulence and diagnostic imaging techniques.

He is a Member of the United States National Academy of Engineering and a Member of the Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Nuclear Society (ANS) and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). His awards include the 2008 American Nuclear Society Seaborg Medal, the 2003 George Westinghouse Gold Medal award, the 2004 Thermal Hydraulics Technical Achievement award, the 2003 Arthur Holly Compton Award of the American Nuclear Society, the 2001 Glenn Murphy award of the American Association for Engineering Education and the 2017 James N. Landis Medal of the American Society of Mechanical. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research, given by the Association of Former Students and Texas A&M University. He is a member of Slovenian Academy of Engineering.   Hassan was sworn in 2007 as a part-time technical judge to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He is an Honorary Professor at the Nuclear Futures Institute, Bangor University, UK.

He is also received the 2022 Fluid Engineering Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the 2023 Tsuyoshi Asanuma Award from the Visualization Society of Japan.  He is the editor-in-chief of the Nuclear Technology Journal and Honorary Editor of the Nuclear Engineering and Design journal. He is the recipient of the 2020 Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Alumni Distinguished Award. He is the editor-in-chief of the Nuclear Technology Journal and Honorary Editor of the Nuclear Engineering and Design journal. He is the recipient of the 2020 Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Alumni Distinguished Award.

He has authored more than 580 refereed publications in technical journals and conference proceedings (265 technical journals and 324 conferences) and more than 420 summaries in American Nuclear Society Transactions (the largest for any ANS member since its establishment in 1950). He delivered more than 150 plenary and invited presentations. He has 8 patents. He received his master’s and doctorate in nuclear in nuclear engineering from the University of Illinois and a master’s in mechanical engineering from the University of Virginia.