Dr. LiChi Po

Dr. Cliff Po is the president and founder of Micro-Simulation Technology, a software developer and consulting service firm in Montville, New Jersey, USA. The company has developed a PC-based program - PCTRAN for reactor simulation. Dr. Po is a graduate of National Taiwan University in 1968 and has a PhD in physics from University of Manchester in UK in 1973. He has published papers on thermal-hydraulics, safety analysis and radiation transport. His previous employments include University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Ebasco Services of New York, Consolidated Edison of New York and GPU Nuclear. During the aftermath of GPU’s Three Mile Island accident, he participated in the event investigation and modification of the undamaged twin unit. He has been a Lecturer Director of IAEA’s “Advanced Reactor Simulation Workshop” since 1996. MST has provided simulator models to US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and national nuclear agencies of Japan, Switzerland, South Africa, Taiwan, Pakistan and Mexico. Numerous utility companies use its product for training and emergency planning.

Dr. Po has licensed his company’s simulation software to universities in China, Taiwan, US, Japan and other countries. Dozens of students have completed research projects and earned their graduate degrees based on the simulation platform.

Dr. Po is the founding president of Chinese American Nuclear Technology Association, a non-profitable organization register in Delaware since 1993. CANTA currently has about 120 active members and keeps regular contact with counterpart societies in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore.