Maosong Cheng is a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of
Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests include
high-performance numerical methods and software development for
molten salt reactors; molten salt reactor modeling and simulation:
mechanism-based and data-driven hybrid modeling methods, model reduction methods,
multi-physics coupling methods, artificial intelligence; molten salt reactor
digital twin. He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Chinese Academy of
Sciences in 2014. After graduation, he joined the Shanghai Institute of Applied
Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an assistant researcher, an associate
researcher from 2016 to 2021, and a researcher from 2021 to the present. He
participated in the Thorium-based Molten Salt Reactor Nuclear Energy System
Project (2011–2024) planned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Zhimin Dai is a researcher and director of the Shanghai
Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his
Ph.D. in Science from the Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences in 1995. After graduation, he continued to work at the
Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences as an
assistant researcher, an associate researcher from 1996 to 2001, a researcher
and deputy director of the laboratory from January to July 2002, director of
the laboratory from 2002 to 2008, assistant director from 2008 to 2009, deputy
director from 2009 to 2019, deputy director of the TMSR Research Center of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences and deputy director of the TMSR Pioneer Project
from 2011 to date, and director from 2019 to date. His research interests
include reactor physics and technology, particle accelerator physics and
technology, and radiation detection and information processing. He is the
chairman of the Shanghai Nuclear Society and the executive director of the
Chinese Society of Radiation Protection. He is also a member of the editorial
board of Nuclear Technology. He has been engaged in many scientific research
tasks and has won the 2015 Shanghai Leading Talent.
