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Hashem M. Hashemian

Hash Hashemian

Hashem M. Hashemian

President and Chief Executive Officer, Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS)

Education

  • M.S. 1977 Nuclear Engineering, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
  • D.Eng. 2008 Electrical Engineering, Lamar University
  • Ph.D. 2009 Nuclear Engineering/Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)
  • Ph.D. 2011 Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University (Canada)

H.M. Hashemian is a University of Tennessee Tickle College of Engineering alumnus and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Analysis and Measurement Services Corporation (AMS), a nuclear engineering consulting firm headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, and operating in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Hashemian’s technical and operational vision and leadership has enabled AMS to play a key role in ensuring the safe and cost-efficient operation of virtually every US nuclear power plant, as well as many in Europe and Asia, through the development and application of industry-leading instrumentation and control testing and analysis equipment and services.

A globally recognized expert who lectures frequently in nuclear power plant instrumentation and control areas, Hashemian holds a PhD in nuclear engineering, a Doctor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering, and a PhD in computer engineering. He has worked for the nuclear, aerospace, and other industries, as well as the US government, including the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, Air Force, Navy, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Hashemian is the author of three books: Sensor Performance and Reliability (ISA, 2005), Maintenance of Process Instrumentation in Nuclear Power Plants (Springer Verlag, 2006), and Monitoring and Measuring I&C Performance in Nuclear Power Plants (ISA, 2014). His books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Russian. In addition, he is the author or co-author of twenty US patents (fourteen awarded and six pending) and has written more than three hundred papers and reports. This includes seventy peer-reviewed journal and magazine articles, over two hundred conference papers, nine book chapters, and numerous reports, guideline documents, and standards for the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), and the International Society of Automation (ISA).

Hashemian is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society (ANS), a Fellow of the International Society of Automation (ISA), a Fellow of the International Society of Engineering Asset Management (ISEAM), a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), as well as a member of the European Nuclear Society (ENS). He has served as a keynote speaker, chairman, and co-chairman of numerous national and international conferences and committees.