NICP SANI 2024 Host Faculty List
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering

NameResearch Fields

Web URLWeb URL 2

E-mail address

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/white.html

whitea@mit.edu

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac

bforget@mit.edu

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/baglietto.html

emiliob@mit.edu

4 Matteo Bucci

Development of advanced diagnostic tools and techniques / Boiling heat transfer / Nanotechnologies for advanced heat
https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
transfer performance / Integration of sensors, simulations and machine learning tools for advanced health monitoring ulty/bucci.html
of complex systems

mbucci@mit.edu

5 Jacopo Buongiorno

Nuclear Batteries / Study on the Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon Constrained World / The offshore floating
nuclear power plant / Fundamentals of Boiling / Surface effects on boiling heat transfer / Nanofluids for Nuclear
Applications / Ultra-low Thermal-Conductivity Materials for Cold-Water Wetsuits

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/buongiorno.html

jacopo@mit.edu

6 Paola CappellaroQuantum Engineering / Control of quantum registers with NV centers in diamond / Diamond magnetometer andprecision metrology / Quantum simulation and transport of quantum information

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/cappellaro.html

pcappell@mit.edu

7 Areg Danagoulian

1. Verification of nuclear disarmament treaties via resonant phenomena and physical cryptography.
2. Multiple Monoenergetic Gamma Radiography and other methodologies for cargo screening

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/danagoulian.html

aregjan@mit.edu

8 Jack Hare

Pulsed power for High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics / Magnetic Reconnection / MagnetohydrodynamicTurbulence

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/hare.html

jdhare@mit.edu

9 Zachary Hartwig

Intermediate energy proton irradiation of materials / High-field superconducting magnet technology

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/hartwig.html

hartwig@mit.edu

10 Ian H. Hutchinson- Fusion Energy: Toroidal magnetic confinement experiments. Tokamak control.
- Plasma Physics: MHD equilibrium and stability, divertor plasma phenomena.
- Interaction of flowing plasma with absorbing bodies such as probes, dust particles, space-craft, or moons.
- Plasma measurements. The second edition of my book Principles of Plasma Diagnostics was published in 2002.
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion: I am an International Advisor and former Editor in Chief of this journal, oneof the top three Plasma Physics journals in the world.
- Physical Review E: I am plasma section sub-editor of this famous American Physical Society journal.

https://wwwinternal.psfc.mit.edu/~hutch/

hutch@psfc.mit.edu

11 Alan Jasanoff

Pushing the frontiers of MRI / Beyond blood flow / The next generation of contrast agents

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/jasanoff.html

jasanoff@mit.edu

12 R. Scott Kemp

The Electrical Grid as a Weapon of Mass Destruction / Hypersonic Weapons / Detection and Prevention of Foreign
Bioweapons Programs / Radiation Fingerprinting for Nuclear Archeology / Detection of Clandestine Nuclear Facilities
http://lnsp.mit.edu/r-scott-kemp// Strategic Stability and Space-Based Radar / K-transform Tomography / Physical Cryptographic Warhead Verification
for Nuclear Disarmament

13 Richard K. Lester

Energy Systems Innovation and Policy / Innovation and Creativity / Local Innovation Systems

http://web.mit.edu/nse/lester/

14 Ju Li

Overcoming Timescale Challenges in Atomistic Simulations / Energy Storage and Conversion / Materials in Extreme
Environments and Far from Equilibrium

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/li.html

liju@mit.edu

15 Mingda Li

The research focus of Mingda and his group (Quantum Measurement Group) is to design novel materials
characterization methods and to augment existing characterization methods to probe key properties of quantum
materials that were either considered not measurable or not readily measurable with existing technique and analysis
methods.

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/mli.html

mingda@mit.edu

16 Nuno F. Loureiro

MAGNETIC RECONNECTION / CONFINEMENT AND TRANSPORT IN FUSION PLASMAS /https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/loureiro.html

nflour@mit.edu

17 Koroush Shirvan

Development of Advanced Fuels / Small Modular Reactor Optimization / Advanced Data Analytics

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/shirvan.html

kshirvan@mit.edu

18 Michael Short

The Development of Fouling Resistant Materials / In-Situ Mesoscale Nuclear Materials Science with Transient Grating https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/short.html
Spectroscopy (TGS) / The Stored Energy Fingerprints of Radiation Damage

hereiam@mit.edu

19 Haruko Murakami WainwrightIntegrated Environmental Monitoring at Nuclear Contaminated Sites / Nuclear Waste Disposal / Environmental
Resilience in Nuclear Energy

hmwainw@mit.edu

20 Dennis G. Whyte- Magnetic Fusion Energy: Boundary plasma physics, advanced plasma confinement regimes in tokamaks, plasma
diagnostics, mitigation of disruption damages- Plasma-Surface Interactions: basic physics of plasma-material interfaces, dynamic measurement techniques forhttps://web.mit.edu/nse/people/facmaterial evolution under plasma bombardment, implications of plasma-surface interactions in magnetic fusion reactors ulty/whyte.html- Accelerators and Surface Analysis: low-energy nuclear scattering techniques for material analysis and damage,development of in-situ surface diagnostic methods for magnetic fusion

whyte@mit.edu

21 Bilge Yildiz

The science and technology of materials development for energy conversion applications in harsh environments

https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/faculty/yildiz.html

byildiz@mit.edu

22 Boris Khaykovich

Molecular structure of molten salts / Neutron metal guides manufactured by replication / Wolter-mirrors based
Neutron microscope

http://nrl.mit.edu/people/boriskhaykovich

bkh@mit.edu

1 Anne White (Department Head)Experimental plasma physics and diagnostics / Fusion systems

2 Benoit Forget

Monte Carlo transport methods / Deterministic transport methods / Multiphysics coupling / Uncertainty Quantification ulty/forget.html

3 Emilio Baglietto

Turbulence Modeling / Unsteady flow phenomena / Multiphase flow and boiling / Virtual Reactor Modeling

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https://web.mit.edu/nse/people/fac
ulty/wainwright.html

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North Carolina State University

Department of Nuclear Engineering

Name

Research Fields

Web URLWeb URL 2

E-mail address

1 Jason Hou

Multi-physics reactor simulation, advanced reactors, fuel cycle analysis, uncertainty quantification, machine learning in https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/people/jasonhou/
engineering applications, and nuclear power plant simulator

2 Xu Wu

Scientific Machine Learning, Calibration, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification

https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/people/xwu27

xwu27@ncsu.edu

3 Igor A. Bolotnov

Thermal hydraulics, High resolution simulations of two-phase flows with interface captiring methods, simulations ofboiling flows

https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/people/ia
bolotn/igor_bolotnov@ncsu.edu

4 Mohamed Bourham

Plasma-matter interaction, plasma propulsion and thrusters, fusion engineering, plasma surface modification, particle
accelerators and electron beam irradiation systems, x-ray sources for medical and screening imaging, materials
synthesis and coatings, shielding and radiation attenuation studies, nuclear and mixed waste disposal, drycasks andhigh-level waste packaging studies.

https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/people/bourham/bourham@ncsu.edu

5 Robert B. Hayes

Health Physics, Nuclear Waste Management, Nuclear Nonproliferation, Nuclear Forensics, Nuclear Criticality Safety,Radiation Shielding, Radiation Detection, Novel Nuclear Reactor Designs and Radiological Air Monitoring

https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/people/rb https://www.ne.ncsu.ed
rbhayes@ncsu.edu
hayes/u/rdna/

6 Mihai A. Diaconeasa

Theories, applications, and simulation-based techniques in risk sciences such as traditional and dynamic probabilistic
risk assessment, reliability analysis, resilient systems design, probabilistic physics of failure modeling, and Bayesianinferencehttps://www.ne.ncsu.edu/people/madiacon/

madiacon@ncsu.edu

7 Benjamin Beeler

Computational Nuclear Materials Science: atomistic modeling; multiscale modeling, advanced reactor nuclear fuels,
molten salts, advanced cladding materials, density functional theory, molecular dynamics

https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/cnmsg/

bwbeeler@ncsu.edu

8 Jacob Eapen

Materials theory (phonons, liquids and disordered materials) and multiscale modeling (atomistic, mesoscale), nuclear
and energy materials (high performance alloys, graphite, SiC composites, molten salts, metal hydrides, superionic
conductors, nuclear fuel)https://www.ne.ncsu.edu/people/jeapen/

jacob.eapen@ncsu.edu

University of Michigan

jason.hou@ncsu.edu

Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences

NameResearch Fields

Web URLWeb URL 2

E-mail address

1 Fei Gao

- Fundamental understanding of ion-solid interaction and radiation effects in ceramics and reactor materials, interfacial
and nanostructure evolution of semiconductors, radiation detector materials, and development and application ofmulti-scale computer simulation for materials modeling.
- Multi-scale computer simulations of microstructure evolution of solids under irradiation employing various
computational methods, including density functional theory (DFT), ab initio molecular dynamics, time-dependent
https://ners.engin.umich.edu/peopl
DFT, and tight-binding calculations, molecular dynamics simulations, long-time dynamics, kinetic Monte Carlo, ande/gao-fei/cluster dynamics.
- Degradation of spent nuclear fuel canisters- Swift heavy ion damage in materials- Ceramics for nuclear waste forms, fuels and fusion reactor applications- Radiation response and signal generation in detector materials

2 Igor Jovanovic

Radiation detection, lasers and optics

https://ners.engin.umich.edu/peopl
e/jovanovic-igor/

ijov@umich.edu

3 Xiaodong Sun- Thermal-hydraulics and reactor safety- Two-phase flow experimentation and modeling- Interfacial structure characterization- Thermal-hydraulics in advanced high-temperature reactors (gas-cooled, fluoride salt cooled, or liquid metal cooled)- High-temperature compact heat exchangers

https://ners.engin.umich.edu/peopl
e/sun-xiaodong/xdsun@umich.edu

4 Aditi Verma- How can a fundamental understanding of design be used to improve design practice, design tools, and engineeringpedagogy?
- How can design processes be made more open and participatory such that epistemic plurality and inclusivity areachieved as part of the design process?
- How can insights from design research be applied to the designs of policies and institutions for the governance —both innovation and regulation — of nuclear technologies?

https://ners.engin.umich.edu/peopl
e/verma-aditi/aditive@umich.edu

5 Majdi Radaideh

The Artificial Intelligence and Multiphysics Simulations (AIMS) lab focuses on the intersection between reactor
design, nuclear multiphysics modeling and simulation, advanced computational methods, and machine learningalgorithms to drive advanced reactor research and improve the sustainability of the current reactor fleet. Examples ofongoing AIMS projects are:1- Advanced reactor design and safety analysis of high temperature gas-cooled microreactors.
2- Nuclear reactor control with hybrid deep reinforcement learning and model predictive control.
3- Multiobjective optimization of expensive simulations of small modular reactors with adaptive surrogates.
4- Development of Large Language Models for detection of public support of nuclear power on social media.
5- Fast data assimilation techniques for nuclear digital twins with variational Bayesian inference.
6- Model-agnostic explainable AI methods for black-box nuclear reactor codes and applications.

https://ners.engin.umich.edu/peopl
e/radaideh-majdi/

radaideh@umich.edu6 Yang Zhang

Matter- Rare events and long timescale phenomena in complex material systems- Physics and chemistry of liquids, glasses, and complex fluids, especially under interfacial/extreme/non-equilibrium
conditions (water, metallic liquids, molten salts, ionic liquids, electrolyte solutions)- Statistical mechanics and molecular fluid mechanics theories, accelerated molecular simulations, understandable AI
methods
Neutron scattering, sources, and instrumentation
Machine- Soft robots and human-compatible machines- Swarm robots and collective intelligence- Robots in extreme environments

https://ners.engin.umich.edu/peopl https://z.engin.umich.ee/zhang-yang/
duyzyz@umich.edu

7 Lumin Wang

Radiation effects and material characterization

https://ners.engin.umich.edu/peopl
e/wang-lu-min/lmwang@umich.edu

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gaofeium@umich.edu

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University of Wisconsin-Madison

Department of Nuclear Engineering &Engineering Physics

Name

Research Fields

Web URLWeb URL 2

E-mail address

1 Paul Wilson

Computational methods for simulating complex nuclear energy systems

https://cnerg.engr.wisc.edu

paul.wilson@wisc.edu

2 Adrien Couet

Nuclear Materials Irradiation and Corrosion

https://madcor.labs.wisc.edu/

couet@wisc.edu

3 Ben Lindley

Reactor physics, advanced reactor design, integrated energy systems, safety analysis

https://reti.neep.wisc.edu

lindley2@wisc.edu

4 Kumar SridharanMaterials processing testing and analysis

https://mat-research.engr.wisc.edu/

kumar.sridharan@wisc.edu

5 Yongfeng Zhang

Computational Nuclear Materials

https://zhang.ep.wisc.edu/

yzhang2446@wisc.edu

6 Juliana Pacheco Duarte

Experimental and Computational thermal-hydraulics and safety

https://heats.neep.wisc.edu

pachecoduarte@wisc.edu

7 Stephanie Diem

Experimental plasma physics

https://pegasus.ep.wisc.edu/

sjdiem@wisc.edu

8 Benedikt Geiger

Experimental plasma physics

https://turbulence.neep.wisc.edu/

9 Oliver Schmitz

Experimental plasma physics

https://3dpsi.engr.wisc.edu/staff/sc
hmitz-oliver/oschmitz@wisc.edu

10 Carl Sovinec

Computational plasms physics

https://cptc.wisc.edu/sovinecresearch/csovinec@wisc.edu

11 Chris Hegna

Plasma theory and computation

https://directory.engr.wisc.edu/neep/faculty/hegna_chris

cchegna@wisc.edu

12 Adelle WrightComputational plasms physics

https://wright-lab.notion.site/adelle.wright@wisc.edu

Texas A&M University1

https://hsx.wisc.edu/

benedikt.geiger@wisc.edu

Department of Nuclear Engineering

Name

Web URL

Research Fields

Web URL 2

E-mail address

2 John Ford

Radiation safety; radiation detection or medical/research applications of radioisotopes; space radiation environmentand countermeasuresthasl@tamu.edu

3 Karen Kirkland

Steam/water two-phase flow experiments, reactor safety systems, power engineering

vierow@tamu.edu

4 Jean Ragusa

Radiation transport simulation for reactor using deterministic methods. Dr. Ragusa would like to interview suitable
candidates before agreeing.

jean.ragusa@tamu.edu

5 Carlo Fiorina

Multiphysics modeling and Simulation of advanced reactors

carlo.fiorina@tamu.edu

6 Yang Liu

Advanced reactor modeling and analysis using physics-informed machine learning

y-liu@tamu.edu

University of California, Berkeley
Name

Department of Nuclear Engineering
Research Fields

Web URLWeb URL 2

E-mail address

1 Massimiliano Fratoni

Advanced nuclear reactors design / Uncertainty quantification and sensitivity analysis / Multi-physics modeling andsimulation / Accident tolerant fuel / Advanced fuel cycles analysis / Geological repository and far-field criticality /Fusion blanket design

maxfratoni@berkeley.edu

2 Jasmina Vujic

Advanced nuclear Reactor Physics/Design, Transport theory modeling and simulation, Application of radiation in
medical diagnostics and therapy, Non-proliferationvujic@nuc.berkeley.edu

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