b'N AT I O N A LU N I V E R S I T Y P R O G R A M SJoint Appointments The Joint Appointment Program at Idaho NationalWe have two types of joint appointments:Laboratory enhances research collaborationsIncoming: A university employee is requestedbetween INL and university staff members. to collaborate with INL with opportunityJoint appointees develop or conduct research andfor on-site access.development at INL and their host institutions. Outgoing: An INL employee is requested Joint appointment agreements are negotiatedto collaborate with a university on research between INL and the partner university. opportunities and may teach at partner universities.The new joint appointees for FY-2022Greg Shannon, Kevin Chen,Ohio State University University of PittsburghShannon is a leader in INLsDeveloping advanced sensors and efforts to improve the securityinstrumentation is a strategically and resilience of U.S. criticalimportant capability for Nuclear infrastructure. He is improvingScience and Technology. INLs methods for efficient securityMeasurement Science department and resilience in manufacturingdevelops optical fiber technology and other cyber-physical domains. With a jointfor measurement solutions in irradiation experiments appointment at The Ohio State University, Shannonand applications to advanced reactors. Kevin Chen will expand INLs university relationship with ais an international leader in developing innovative goal to advance research in security and resiliencesolutions for the application of optical fiber sensing. methods. These methods include advancing toolsHis laboratory at the University of Pittsburgh for manufacturing, nuclear energy infrastructure,fabricates and characterizes novel fiber sensors and other cyber-physical domains. Such methods,topologies and related interrogation methods. This tools and applications are central to expanding INLsjoint appointment complements NS&T capabilities capabilities to meet the national and homelandin deploying optical fiber sensors with basic optics security challenges within the Department ofresearch work and provides a pipeline for future Energy and other agencies such as the departmentsresearch with specialized expertise.of Defense and Homeland Security. Efforts to improve the security and resilience of cyber-physical systems will focus on formal methods, advanced manufacturing, energy stability, trusted architectures and agile engineering methods. 22'