Members

Aidan Furlong

Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering (MSNE), defended in March 2024.
MS thesis title: Prediction of CIPS Susceptibility in PWR Assemblies Using 3D Convolutional Neural Networks

Mahmoud Yaseen

Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering (MSNE), defended in March 2024.
MS thesis title: Uncertainty Quantification in Deep Neural Network Models for Nuclear Reactor Benchmarks

Chaitee Godbole

PhD co-advised with Professor Maria Avramova, defended in March 2023.
PhD thesis title: Machine Learning-based Prediction of Power at which Departure from Nucleate Boiling Occurs
First job after PhD: postdoc at Idaho National Laboratory

Parth Patel

PhD co-advised with Professor Abhinav Gupta, defended in December 2022.
PhD thesis title: Simulating Damage and Degradation in Concrete Structures
First job after PhD: postdoc at NCSU Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering

Christopher Brady

Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering (MSNE), defended in May 2023.
MS thesis title: Criticality Safety Analysis of a Spiral Plate Heat Exchanger for Molten Salt Reactors

Richard Pfrogner

Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering (MSNE), defended in March 2023.
MS thesis title: CTF PWR Core Modeling and Validation Applicable to High Burnup High Enrichment (HBHE) Fuel

Halil Ibrahim San

Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering (MSNE), defended in August 2022.
MS thesis title: Sensitivity Analysis of Core Reflood Phenomena with Deep Learning

Jennifer Baglio

Master of Nuclear Engineering (MNE), finished August 2021.