Research Faculty and Staff

Full-Time Research Faculty

Sophie Blondel
Research Assistant Professor

Shradha Agarwal
Research Assistant Professor

Michael Liesenfelt
Research Assistant Professor

Charles L. Melcher
Research Professor

Deborah Penchoff
Associate Director of Innovative Computing Laboratory and Research Assistant Professor

Jun Ren
Research Assistant Professor

Luis Stand Stracuzzi
Research Assistant Professor

Xianfei Wen
Research Assistant Professor

Post-Docs and Research Scientists

Mohamed El Amine Benkechkache
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Siwei Chen
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Dwaipayan Dasgupta
Research Scientist

Kaifu Gan
Research Scientist I

Saurabh Ghosh
Research Scientist I

Alex Grosjean
Research Scientist I

Wei-Ting Hsu
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Ane Lasa Esquisabel
Research Scientist I

Charles Lieou
Research Scientist I

Eric O’Quinn
Researcher III

Nicodemus Rod
Ceramics Specialist

Geeta Sachdeva
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Brandon Shaver
Research Associate III

Oleksii Sivenko
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Noah Smith
Research Technician III

Isaac Stone
Researcher II

Li Yang
Researcher IV

Bingzhe Zhao
Post-Doctoral Researcher

Part-Time Research Faculty

• Caen Ang, Research Assistant Professor, PhD, Monash University
• Ondrej Chvala, Research Assistant Professor, PhD, Sub-nuclear Physics, Institute of Particle and Nuclear Physics, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic
• Andrei Gribok, Research Associate Professor, PhD, Moscow Institute of Biological Physics
  Research interests: Artificial intelligence techniques, surveillance and diagnosis, inverse and ill-posed problems, regularization theory
• Martin L. Grossbeck, Research Professor, PhD, Illinois
  Research interests: radiation effects in materials, burnable absorbers, research reactors, and ultra-high vacuum technology
• Mohammad Khan, Research Associate Professor
• John T. Mihalczo, Professor, PhD, UT
  Research interests: radiation measurements for nuclear safeguards and nuclear criticality safety, reactor physics
• Dustin Osborne, Research Associate Professor
• Giovanni Pastore, Research Associate Professor, PhD, Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy
• Arthur E. Ruggles, Professor, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  Research Interests: Reactor thermalhydraulics, liquid metal flow and heat transfer, cavitation and fluid transients, accelerator target design, and microchannel flow.