John Beal

John Beal is a Ph.D. candidate in the Socio-Technical Risk Analysis (SoTeRiA) Research Laboratory in the Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering (NPRE) department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). John received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the UIUC NPRE department in 2020 and 2023 respectively. While working with SoTeRiA Research Lab, John has supported several projects with risk-based applications. John has investigated methods for modeling interconnections between safety risk and financial outcomes for nuclear power plants by supporting the development of an Integrated Enterprise Risk Management (I-ERM) methodological framework. This framework integrated underlying models for physical degradation and maintenance which impact component reliability in a nuclear power plant. Additionally research by John has developed methods to model dynamic interactions between human performance-based maintenance models and physical degradation models. Additionally research by John applied the Probabilistic Validation (PV) approach developed by SoTeRiA Lab and advanced this methodology for its application to Human Reliability Analysis modeling.