Vita - College of Engineering - The University of Tennessee, Knoxville

society for three years, which he organized through the national Health Physics Society and the UT
administration, and he has served as the advisor for the student section of the American Nuclear Society.
He has had several leadership positions with the local section of the American Nuclear Society, including
the Chair for 1996-1997, and he was the Technical Program Chair for the June 1998 National ANS
meeting. He served on the National Program Committee of the American Nuclear Society from 1999
through 2001, he served as the General Chair for the Spectrum 2000 meeting, an International Conference
on Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Management, and he served as chair of the Radiation Protection and
Shielding Division of the American Nuclear Society (2001-2002). He served as co-chair of the
Scholarship Policy and Coordination Committee (2003-2005) and is currently the chair.
He has served the University of Tennessee Faculty Senate, on several university-wide committees,
and on the Advisory Board for the College of Engineering (COE) Basic Engineering Review Team. He
served as the Chairman of the University of Tennessee Radiation Safety Committee for 16 years and of the
Environment Health and Safety Committee for about 10 years. He chaired the COE Promotion and Tenure
Committee during 2001-2003 academic years, and he has served on the COE Awards Committee.
His efforts during the first twelve years involved a substantial commitment to teaching nuclear
engineering laboratory and reactor theory courses with a research focus primarily on radioactive waste
management and radiation detection. After establishing the Radiation Protection program in 1988 his
activities were refocused on topics involving radiological assessment and radiation detection with a lighter
teaching load. More recently his research concentrates on traditional nuclear engineering topics.
Results from his work on Boron Neutron Capture Therapy contribute to the understanding of how
to improve protocols treatment of tumors. His work on detectors and methods for radiation detection
include development of improved methods for utilization of pulse shape discrimination and of improved
neutron detectors. He has recently completed studies for the Tennessee Valley Authority on the
Sustainability of Nuclear and Alternative Energy Sources and on Advanced Reactor Designs for
Implementation in the 2010 to 2015 time frame. His work on the development of internet-based reactor
experiments for nuclear engineering students is reviewed in the January 2005 issue American Nuclear
Society’s national news magazine. His current contract on evaluation of Uncertainties of Advanced
Nuclear Fuel Cycles will facilitate decision making on the selection of reactors and fuel cycles that will
provide reliable electrical energy for thousands of years.
Calendar Year 2012
PUBLICATIONS
M. R. Williamson, L. Miller, and I. Sen, “Measurement and Modeling of Light Yield Non-Proportionality
in Neutron Detectors,” Nuclear Technology (Vol 177, # 3, pp 413-420)
Graham V. Walford, Sean J. Branney, David W Roberts, Raymond K. Maynard, Laurence F. Miller,
Christoph C. Borel, David F .Bunker, John N. Dewes, “Enhancing Rapid Non Contact and
Remote Sensing of Radionuclide Bearing Compounds, Our abstract (attached) has been accepted
at INMM for presentation
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