Download Image COL Peter Chapman Department Head peter.chapman@westpoint.edu Biography COL Chapman was commissioned into the Infantry from the United States Military Academy in 1998. He holds a BS in Engineering Physics from West Point, an MS in Nuclear Science and Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from North Carolina State University. COL Chapman has served in a variety of operational assignments that include service as a platoon leader and executive officer in 1-187 IN of the 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell, Kentucky and commander of B/1-12 CAV and assistant operations officer in the 1st Cavalry Division at Fort Hood, Texas. His most recent assignment was as the Assistant Executive Officer to the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-3/5/7, Headquarters, Department of the Army. He has deployed in support of the Kosovo Peacekeeping Force, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Operation Iraqi Freedom. At West Point, COL Chapman served as an instructor and course director in the introductory physics course from 2010-2014. He returned to West Point in 2018 as an Academy Professor and served as the core physics program director in 2019 before being selected as the Deputy Head in 2020. COL Chapman's awards and decorations include the Bronze Star (with two oak leaf clusters), Meritorious Service Medal (with two oak leaf clusters), Combat Infantry Badge, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, Ranger Tab, and Sapper Tab. Ongoing Research Projects System Design and Manufacture of Boron Potassium Nitrate Neural Network Particle Type Identification Publications & Presentations Liebers, N., Huckelberry, J., Ruiz, D., Fobar, D., Chapman, P., “Unsupervised Machine Learning Approaches to Nuclear Particle Type Classification,” 2022 IEEE Long Island Systems, Applications, and Technology (LISAT), 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/lisat50122.2022.9924043 Fobar, D., Vanderlip, W., Koch, W., Chapman, P., “A Machine Learning Approach to a Multi-Detector Array Response Function for Nuclear Search,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 69, No. 8, pp. 1939-1944, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2022.3186831 Fobar, D., Phillips, L., Wilhelm, A., Chapman, P., “Considerations for Training an Artificial Neural Network for Particle Type Identification,” IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science, Vol. 68, No. 9, pp. 2350-2357, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/tns.2021.3103658 Barker, C. and Chapman, P.: “Strategies to Develop Confident and Flexible New Faculty.” Presented at the American Association of Physics Teachers National Winter Meeting, Orlando, FL, 2020. Chapman, P., Mueller, J., Newby, J., Mattingly, J., “Exploiting fission chain reaction dy-namics to image fissile materials,” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A, Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol. 935, pp. 198-206, 2019.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2019.05.001 Mattingly, J., Hutchinson, J., Sullivan, C., Stinnett, J., Kamuda, M., Alamaniotis, M., Sims, B., Mueller, J., Chapman, P., Newby, J., Linkous, J. D., Pozzi, S., Polack, K., Hamel, M. C., Poitrasson-Riviere, A., Clarke, S., He, Z., Goodman, D., Streicher, M.: "CNEC and CVT Subcritical Experiments with Category I Special Nuclear Material at the Nevada National Security Site Device Assembly Facility", in: Institute of Nuclear Materials Management Annual Meeting, 2016. Chapman, P.: "Exploiting Fission Chain Reactions to Identify the Presence of Fissile Materials." Presented at the IEEE Symposium on Radiation Measurements and Applications (SORMA), Berkeley, CA, 2016. Chapman, P., Goodman, D., & Hamel, M.: "2015 Experimental Campaign at the Device Assembly Facility." Presented at the NNSA University & Technical Interchange (UITI) review meeting, Raleigh, NC, 2016. Toole, J., Littles, D., Blaine, K., and Chapman, P.: “Implementing and Assessing an Interdisciplinary Program for Three or More General Education Courses.” Presented at the Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) Summer Institute, Santa Clara, CA, 2013. Chapman, P., Shannon, M., and Vergien, C.: “Development of a Framework for the Quantitative Assessment of the Military Utility of Standoff Radiation Detection Technologies.” Presented at the Hardened Electronics and Radiation Technology (HEART) Technical Interchange Meeting, Monterey, CA, 2013. Colella, R., with forward by Chapman, P.: Battle for Baqubah: Killing our Way Out. iUnivese, 2012. Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence (2014)