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Personal profile
Biography
Chris Ritter is the division director of scientific computing & AI and director of the Digital Innovation Center of Excellence at Idaho National Laboratory (INL). His team of ~100 computational and data scientists are changing the world’s future with AI/ML, digital twinning, digital engineering, multi-physics, HPC, and digital thread technologies across a portfolio of nuclear energy, non-proliferation, semiconductor, and defense applications.
Chris founded INL's nationally leading digital engineering team which grew from 0 to over ~57 of the nation’s top researchers and developers in digital science. His team led the first nuclear reactor digital twin, built the Deep Lynx open digital thread platform, developed the first autonomous non-nuclear microreactor, and is actively building multiple petabyte-scale digital thread platforms. Additionally, he co-president of Newcomers in Leadership and Chief Digital Officer of SMART USA. Prior to INL, Chris co-founded and led development of the #1 cloud-native MBSE tool, Innoslate, used in 107 counties across 2,000 companies around the world.
Research Interests
Artificial Intelligence
Digital Twins
Digital Engineering
Software Architecture
Systems Architecture
Education/Academic qualification
Master, Systems Engineering Management / Product Development, Naval Postgraduate School
2021 → 2023
Bachelor, Computer Science, Virginia Tech
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Autonomous anomaly detection of proliferation in the AGN-201 nuclear reactor digital twin
Treviño, E., Shields, A., Stewart, R., Darrington, J., Scott, J., Pope, C. & Ritter, C., Feb 2025, In: Annals of Nuclear Energy. 211, 110990.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Selection of Sampling and Surrogate Modeling Methods for State-Point Evaluations of an AGN-201M Reactor
Williams, Q. J., Stewart, R. H., Palmer, T. S., Palmer, C. J., Pope, C., Shields, A. & Ritter, C., Feb 19 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Nuclear Science and Engineering.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The AGN-201 Digital Twin: A test bed for remotely monitoring nuclear reactors
Stewart, R., Treviño, E., Shields, A., Heaps, K., Darrington, J., Williams, Q., Pope, C., Scott, J., Baker, B., Palmer, J., Vainqueur, B., Palmer, T. S., Palmer, C., Bays, S., Schanfein, M., Reyes, G. & Ritter, C., Apr 2025, In: Annals of Nuclear Energy. 213, 111041.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Creation Synthetic Data to Train a Digital Twin to Predict Reactor Operations
Palmer, J. S., Stewart, R. H., Brockman Shields, A. J., Vainqueur, B.-O. & Ritter, C., Jan 31 2024Research output: Book/Report › Technical Report
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Development of a Steady State Reactor Physics Surrogate Model for the Idaho State University AGN-201 Digital Twin Using MOOSE
Williams, Q. J., Stewart, R. H., Palmer, T. S., Palmer, C. J., Pope, C., Shields, A. & Ritter, C., 2024, Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2024. American Nuclear Society, p. 389-398 10 p. (Proceedings of the International Conference on Physics of Reactors, PHYSOR 2024).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Prizes
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International National Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) WMA SEDC Leader Award
Ritter, C. (Recipient), 2016
Prize: Honorary award
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St. Michael’s Academy - Teaching & Technology Award
Ritter, C. (Recipient), 2015
Prize: Honorary award
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National Online Pacemaker / National Scholastic Press Association
Ritter, C. (Recipient), 2008
Prize: Honorary award
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International Council on Systems Engineering ( INCOSE ) (External organization)
Ritter, C. (Member)
1900 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of network
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ASME Plant Systems Design Committee (External organization)
Ritter, C. (Chair)
1900 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
Press/Media
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Going digital: Idaho students, engineers demonstrate first nuclear reactor digital twin
Woodruff, N., Browning, J., Stewart, R., Ritter, C., Nelson, L. & Shields, A.
01/1/24
3 items of Media coverage
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Improving mission delivery starts with digital engineering
06/15/23
1 item of Media coverage
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Know your POWERGEN International® speaker: Logan Browning
01/18/23
1 item of Media coverage
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How drones, scanners could help build next-generation nuclear reactors
09/15/21
1 item of Media coverage
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