The NE program consists of internationally renowned faculty members who are experts in various sub-fields of nuclear engineering and engineering physics.
The adjacent listing is an inclusive directory of our program faculty, providing title, research interests, contact information and links to their own websites if available.
Current and prospective students are highly encouraged to contact each faculty member for questions related to research (paid undergraduate research positions are available at the beginning of each semester), course offering, and the nuclear engineering program in general.
For additional information on how to apply for our undergraduate and graduate programs, please contact departmental staff using the Contact link.
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- Dr. Yaron Danon
- Professor, Nuclear Engineering Program Director, Gaerttner Electron Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Center Director
- Nuclear Data, Radiation Detection, Novel Radiation Sources, Nondestructive Testing.
- Nuclear Engineering and Science Building (NES) 1-9
- 518-276-4008
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Dr. Danon is the Director of the Gaerttner Electron Linear Accelerator (LINAC) Center at RPI, which houses a powerful 60 MeV pulsed electron LINAC used primarily as an intense pulsed neutron and gamma source. Dr. Danon’s nuclear data research group develops methods and performs experiments to measure neutron induced reactions and cross sections.
Dr. Danon’s group develops novel radiation detectors, data acquisition systems, and data analysis methods for nuclear data application and other applications. This research includes development of novel high efficiency, large area, zero bias solid-state neutron detectors.
In addition to nuclear data activities, Dr. Danon is a pioneer in the area of pyroelectric crystal acceleration. Together with his students he developed x-ray and neutron sources that utilize simple heating of these crystals and thus eliminate the requirement for high voltage power supply. Current research includes laser or light driven crystal based accelerators.
Dr. Danon published more than 240 articles in archived journals and conference proceedings. He advised 18 Ph.D. and 9 M.S. students that graduated; he currently advises 6 Ph.D. students and teaches courses on radiation technology and physics of nuclear reactors.
For more information, visit my web page www.rpi.edu/~danony
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- Dr. Wei Ji
- Professor, Director of Reactor Critical Facility
- Computational Nuclear Reactor Physics; Next Generation Nuclear Reactor Design; Coupled Multiphysics Analysis and Computational Methods Development; Radiation Transport Computation; Radiation Effects on Electronic Devices.
- Jonsson Engineering Center 5040
- 518-276-6602
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At RPI, Dr. Ji leads the Rensselaer Nuclear Engineering Advanced Modeling and Simulation Group (R-NEAMS), focusing on the development of advanced computation methods/tools that are applied to the areas of nuclear energy, medical physics, nuclear criticality safety and space exploration. These methods include new coupling methods for multiphysics analysis of nuclear reactor systems, Monte Carlo modeling of radiation transport in stochastic media, on-the-fly sampling of thermal inelastic scattering reaction at any temperature based on S(alpha, beta) nuclear data, multiphysics models for coupled granular flow and fluid flow simulations in pebble-bed reactors, new algorithms on heterogeneous parallel CPU-GPU-Coprocessor architectures to accelerate Monte Carlo simulations, and multiphysics modeling of heavy ion induced electro-thermal transient damage to electronic devices.
Dr. Ji has been leading or co-leading research projects funded by Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Department of Energy (DOE), National Institute of Health (NIH), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). He has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications and served on the program and organizing committees of various national and international professional societies, workshops and conferences.
More details of Dr. Ji's research group can be found at http://neams.rpi.edu
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- Dr. Jie Lian
- Professor
- Radiation damage and Radiation Effects, Advanced Nuclear Fuels and Waste Forms, Materials Behavior Under Extreme Conditions, Nuclear Waste Management.
- Jonsson Engineering Center 5048
- 518-276-6081
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Dr. Lian has been working on ceramic materials as waste form and fuel matrix applications over last 20 years. His research mainly focuses on the long term performance evaluation of ceramics as potential matrix for incorporating fission products and actinides, specifically materials behavior under extreme radiation environment encountered under relevant geological repository conditions and reactor environments. He is currently working three key thrust areas in the fields of nuclear engineering:
- Development of advanced waste forms for complex waste stream (including actinides and fission products) particularly on effective management of DOE EM wastes;
- design and characterization of advanced fuel materials with enhanced thermo-mechanical and accident tolerance for current LWR and advanced nuclear energy systems;
- the development of advanced structural materials (such as oxide dispersion-strengthened alloys) and fundamental understanding of their performance under relevant nuclear application conditions.
Lian’s recent efforts are focused on the development of advanced materials for better control of radiation through the nano-scale materials design concept. Such radiation-tolerant materials are able to sustain exposure to radiation, high temperatures, and corrosion, critical for extending the lifetime of components and contributing to the safer, more reliable operation of nuclear systems. One of important topics is composite fuels with enhanced fuel performance and accident tolerance. He is very experienced in using advanced materials fabrication approaches, e.g., field assisted sintering technology by spark plasma sintering, to sinter and fabricate advanced ceramics and composites with controlled microstructure at different length scales, and explore their thermo-physical properties. His research group is performing state-of-the-art fabrication of nuclear fuels with controlled microstructure that can provide critical experimental data needed to validate multi-scale multi-physics MARMOT under the DOE NEAMS (Nuclear Engineering Advanced Modeling and Simulation) program.
On scholarship, Dr. Lian has published 3 book chapters and more than 200 refereed journal papers, which have been cited for about 6000 times according to SCI with a H-index of 41.
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- Dr. Forrest Brown
- Adjunct Faculty (LANL)
- Code Development (MCNP) and Verification, Teraflop Parallel Computing, Monte Carlo Theory & Methods.
- Los Alamos National Laboratory
- 505-667-7581
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Dr. Forrest Brown is a Senior Research Scientist with the Monte Carlo Codes group in the X Computational Physics Division at LANL. He has extensive experience and expertise in radiation transport analysis, reactor physics, criticality safety, high performance computing, parallel/vector computing, random sampling, computer benchmarking. He has been a lead developer for the MCNP, RACER, and VIM Monte Carlo codes at LANL, KAPL, and ANL. Forrest is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society with over 300 technical publications. He is a Research Professor at the University of New Mexico, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Michigan and RPI. Honors awarded to Forrest include: ANS Gerald C. Pomraning Award, ANS Distinguished Service award, Los Alamos Achievement awards, Defense Programs of Excellence awards, GE Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, and others.
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- Dr. Richard Lahey
- Edward E. Hood Professor Emeritus, Member of National Academy of Engineering
- Multiphase Flow, Heat Transfer, Nuclear Reactor Safety.
- NES Building 1-23
- 518-276-6614
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Professor Lahey is an international
authority in multiphase flow and heat transfer technology
and was formerly Director of the Center for Multiphase Research
(CMR) at Rensselaer. He was previously Dean of Engineering
at RPI and has served as Chairman of the Department of Nuclear
Engineering & Science and the Faculty Senate. Prior to
joining Rensselaer in 1975, he held several technical and
managerial positions with the General Electric Company, including
overall responsibility for all domestic and foreign R&D
programs associated with Boiling Water Nuclear Reactor (BWR)
thermal-hydraulic and safety technology. He has received numerous
honors and awards, including the E.O. Lawrence Memorial Award
of the USDOE, the ANS Seaborg Medal, the AIChE Kern Award
and the Glenn Murphy Award of the ASEE. He is a member of
the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the Russian Academy
of Science-Bashkortostan (RAS), a Fellow of the ANS and ASME,
was Editor of the Journal of Nuclear Engineering &
Design, is a member of the Board of Managers of PJM Interconnection,
LLC., and is a life member of RPI's Palmer C. Ricketts Society of Patroons. Professor Lahey has been a Fulbright
and an Alexander von Humboldt Scholar and has held visiting
senior faculty positions with several foreign universities.
His hobbies include skiing, SCUBA diving, Kang Duk Won karate,
and Enology. He was a Commandeur, La Confrerie
des Chevaliers du Tastevin, and is a former Chevalier de L'Ordre
Modial de la Confererie Chaine des Rotisseurs.
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