School of Health Sciences - Dr. Jou G. Hwang
2006 Distinguished Alumnus

Upon graduation, Jou Hwang was employed at the Illinois Department of Nuclear Safety for a short period where he served as Section Head for the Agreement State licensing program. Subsequent to that he was employed as Section Head for Radon Remediation at the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.

Dr. Hwang began his career in consulting in 1987 with ICF Kaiser Engineers, Inc. where he was a project manager for U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) CERCLA remedial investigations and feasibility studies at hazardous waste sites. He continued to provide consulting services through Gibbs and Hill, Inc. (Hill International) and Science Applications International Corporation where the focus was support of Department of Energy (DOE) environmental management.

Dr. Hwang moved to the Cadmus Group where he continued to provide support to DOE environmental management and the EPA Office of Air and Radiation and in 1995 Dr. Hwang founded Advanced Technologies and Laboratories, Inc. (ATL) where he continues to provide support for DOE and other federal agencies.

Dr. Hwang has gained extensive experience in technical and management positions, working with public agencies, industries, and academic institutions in the areas of radiological and toxic risk assessment, safety documentation, technology applications especially dealing with decommissioning of nuclear facilities and equipment, licensing and compliance, occupational safety and health, environmental restoration, waste and project management, radiological protection, and training. In safety and health areas, he has a broad experience with different hazards, including radiation, chemical, industrial, asbestos, air toxics, heat stress, and exposures involving multiple hazards. His experience covers work planning, monitoring, compliance, and audit and corrective actions. His customers include the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Department of Energy including DOE National Laboratories, Department of Labor, Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation.

Since 1997, he has served as the Project Director to support OSHA in its enforcement programs, compliance assistance programs, standards and directive development, policy analysis, safety and health information bulletin development, outreach and eTool development. He was a major technical contributor and task manager to support OSHA and its DOE external regulatory activities. Under his guidance, ATL has successfully performed over 7 millions dollar worth of quality work for various OSHA Directorates in the last 7 years. He is a recognized expert in radiological performance assessment for nuclear disposal sites and served on the National Chinese (Taiwan) LLW site characterization review panel.

Dr. Hwang and Mrs. Hwang are the owners of Advanced Technologies and Laboratories International, Inc. where Dr. Hwang serves as president. Founded in 1995, ATL has grown from half dozen of consulting staff to more than 150 technical employees. ATL is recognized as a primary provider of quality services by various Federal government agencies and national laboratories. He leads a team of senior managers in business development activities and continues to provide hands-on technical expertise to a wide range of clients with more than 200 tasks during the last 12 years. Recently the Department of Energy has awarded a contract to operate its primary laboratory for highly radioactive samples at the Hanford Site to ATL. The five-year contract for Hanford analytical and testing services at the 222-S Laboratory is valued at $58 million. The company has an annual revenue exceeding $10 million and has offices in Maryland, New Mexico, Tennessee, and Washington.

Dr. Hwang has been married to Ray-way (Alice) Hwang since 1982 and has two sons, Jesse and Raymond. Jesse is a senior at the University of Maryland and Raymond is a freshman at Washington University in St. Louis. All of them are devoted Christians and live a plain and simple lifestyle.