Congratulations! Dr. Fan Zhang, assistant professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the lab director of the iFAN lab, has been awarded a Distinguished Early Career Award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy (NE). Her awards of $625,000 over five years will provide support for her and the lab to develop a robot-assisted online monitoring and maintenance system for nuclear reactors. Her project will integrate a nuclear power plant (NPP) digital twin with data from a pressurized water reactor (PWR) simulator to enable robotic navigation and manipulation research, and will be used to develop algorithms for autonomous fault detection, diagnosis, and risk assessment integrating robot assistance.