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Creating a Website to Manage Your Personal Brand
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I wrote this blog post for GradSWE as the Community Mentoring Coordinator. You can find the original post on the GradSWE blog.
Strategies for a strong grad school application
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Going to grad school can open all kinds of doors for you professionally. However, there’s one huge step you have to take before it even begins: the application. Grad applications are a stressful and daunting tasks, but there are steps you can take to make your application more powerful. I hope to break down the steps for you, and give other pointers that can help you stand out from the pool of applicants!
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Evaluating 3D Gamma-ray Imaging Techniques for Distributed Sources at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
Published in 2020 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2020
Polaris-Lamp,a commercially available detector that has been integrated with contextual sensors, was hand-carried in a parking lot containing vehicles used during remediation efforts following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident.
Recommended citation: K. Knecht et. al., "Evaluating 3D Gamma-ray Imaging Techniques for Distributed Sources at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station," in Proc. NSS/MIC, 2020, pp. 1-5. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9507840/
Polaris-LAMP: Multi-modal 3D Image Reconstruction with a Commercial Gamma-ray Imager
Published in IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, 2021
The Polaris-LAMP multi-modal 3D gamma-ray imager is a radiation mapping and imaging platform which uses a commercial-off-the-shelf detector integrated with a contextual sensor localization and mapping platform.
Recommended citation: J. Hecla and K. Knecht et. al.. "Polaris-LAMP: Multi-modal 3D Image Reconstruction with a Commercial Gamma-ray Imager" IEEE Trans. Nucl. Sci., vol. 68, no. 10, pp. 2539-2549, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1109/TNS.2021.3110162. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9528363/
3D Compton Imaging of Distributed Sources around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant
Published in 2021 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2021
Here, we present results employing Compton image reconstruction in combination with SDF of data that were collected over series of 20-50 minute dynamic measurements around Pripyat, a nearby town which has been abandoned since the accident in 1986 and in some locations within ChNPP.
Recommended citation: K. Knecht et. al., "3D Compton Imaging of Distributed Sources around the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant," in Proc. NSS/MIC, 2021, pp. 1-4. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9507840/
From the Field
Published in Berkeley Science Review Spring 2022, 2022
Late in the night on April 26, 1986, Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant Unit 4 was scheduled for routine safety testing. Preparations for testing left the reactor in an unstable condition, resulting in a meltdown followed by explosions that destroyed the reactor building and released radioactive material for many days after.
Recommended citation: K. Knecht, "From the Field," in Proc. NSS/MIC, 2022.
Scene-Informed Optimization of Measurement Locations for Radiological Assessment
Published in 2022 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2022
Polaris-Lamp,a commercially available detector that has been integrated with contextual sensors, was hand-carried in a parking lot containing vehicles used during remediation efforts following the March 2011 Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station accident.
Recommended citation: K. Knecht et. al., "Scene-Informed Optimization of Measurement Locations for Radiological Assessment," in Proc. NSS/MIC, 2022.
Scene-Informed Optimal Measurement Positions for Quantitative Safeguards Measurement
Published in 2023 INMM & ESARDA Joint Annual Meeting, 2023
Portable radiation detection systems can be equipped with contextual sensors to allow free-moving 3D gammaray imaging through scene data fusion (SDF). While developed for free-moving measurements, SDF also has applications in cases that require multiple static measurements to generate quantitative 3D images, where the scene information can improve results. The scene information captured by these devices can be leveraged to determine optimal measurement positions for quantification measurements, such as in safeguards applications, where limited time is provided to quantify nuclear material present. In this work the scene information obtained from contextual sensors is used to construct a 3D voxel grid.
Recommended citation: K. Knecht et. al., "Scene-Informed Optimal Measurement Positions for Quantitative Safeguards Measurement," in Proc. INNM & ESARDA Joint Annual Meeting, 2023. https://resources.inmm.org/annual-meeting-proceedings/scene-informed-optimal-measurement-positions-quantitative-safeguards
Enhanced use of contextual data for quantitative Compton Imaging
Published in 2023 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC), 2023
In this work the scene information obtained from contextual sensors is used to construct a 3D voxel grid. A 3D object of interest within this grid is selected by an operator either manually or automatically through an object detection machine learning framework. A number of potential measurement positions and orientations (poses) around this object of interest are identified, and the sensitivity to each of the object voxels from each of these poses is computed.
Recommended citation: K. Knecht et. al., "Enhanced use of contextual data for quantitative Compton Imaging," in Proc. NSS/MIC, 2023.
talks
Talk 1 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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Conference Proceeding talk 3 on Relevant Topic in Your Field
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teaching
Teaching experience 1
Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014
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Teaching experience 2
Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015
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