Dr. Katarzyna (Kate) Borowiec is a R&D Associate Staff Member – System and Data Analytics Engineer in the Nuclear Energy and Fuel Cycle Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). She received her PhD (2021) and MS (2017) in Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has extensive experience with thermal-hydraulics modeling of the nuclear reactor systems. She was involved in many projects in the area of validation and verification, uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis, advancing development of statistical methods for nuclear reactor safety applications. Her research takes advantage of reduced order modeling, data analysis, machine learning and aims at combining data-driven approaches with physics-based modeling. Her research interests include software development, high-performance computing, computational fluid dynamics, machine learning and data-driven modeling approaches.