Dr. Paul W. Talbot is a modeling scientist and software architect with experience in industry, academics, and government laboratories.  Since joining INL in 2014, Paul has worked in analysis and tool development in several areas, including uncertainty quantification, sensitivity analysis and dimensionality reduction, reduced-order mode​ling, robust and stochastic optimization, technoeconomic analysis, and digital twins for static and real-time decision making. Paul worked in collaboration with the University of New Mexico and Idaho National Laboratory on advanced uncertainty quantification techniques for his doctoral research. Paul earned a Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. at the University of New Mexico and M.S. at Oregon State University, and a Physics B.S. from BYU-Idaho.  Throughout his collegiate experience, he worked with nuclear plant following at AREVA NP as well as with Idaho National Laboratory and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Paul is currently a senior developer for the RAVEN uncertainty and risk analysis software, and the owner and technical lead of technoeconomic analysis package HERON.​

Agile Software Development, Workflow Automation and Optimization, Economic Optimization, Machine learning, Artificial intelligence