2025 NSE Research Expo
The MIT Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering hosted its annual Research Expo on April 11, 2025. The annual event showcased NSE research from across the Department.The poster session featured twenty-one students and was followed by oral presentations by three students.
Three students were recognized for exceptional presentation of research at the 2025 NSE Research Expo. Zoe Fisher won the graduate student award for her poster entitled “Fusion-Condition Resistant Insulating Ceramics”. Liliana Arias and Emily Neill won awards for outstanding posters by an undergraduate. Arias presented research about “Analyzing Environmental Tritium Cycle for Fusion Energy and National Security”. Neill presented work about “Modeling Runaway Electrons Using the HEAT Code”.
Each year the expo provides a unique opportunity for the MIT community to learn more about the diverse research being conducted within NSE by faculty and students.
Poster Session Presenters
- Liliana Arias (UG): Analyzing Environmental Tritium Cycle for Fusion Energy and National Security
- Tiya Boonkird (G): Non linear Hall effect in ferromagnetic weyl semimetal thin film
- Loukas Carayannopoulos (G): Reinforcement Learning for BWR Fuel Management
- Youyeon Choi (G): Achieving high power density SMR with innovative fuel design
- Zoe Fisher (G): Fusion-Condition Resistant Insulating Ceramic
- Lauren Fortier (G): Development of a Supervisory Control System as a Transition Technology Towards Autonomous Reactor Plant Operations
- Liam Hines (G): Coupling Source Term Production and Repository Performance Analyses of Graphite Reflector Waste
- Lansing S. Horan, IV (G): Shadowgraphy measurements of MHD shocks outside a radiatively-cooled magnetic reconnection layer
- Takuya Isogawa (G): Entanglement-assisted multiparameter estimation with a solid-state quantum sensor
- Joseph Jerkins (G): 3D Numerical Simulations of Vertical Stability in Vacuum Vessels with Anisotropic Resistivity
- Zander Keith (G): Reactor-Relevant Control of Neoclassical Tearing Modes
- Evan Lambert (G): Validation of 10-30 MeV proton irradiation as a surrogate for neutron irradiation using material hardening characteristics
- Yousef Lawrence (G): Characterization of Self-Generated E and B Fields in Direct-Drive Inertial Confinement Fusion Coronae
- Erick Liang (UG): Utilizing Lattice-Based Support Structures For Laser Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufactured GRCop-42 Lower Hybrid Current Drive Launchers
- Lorenzo Mazzocco (G): Core Design and Analysis of Horizontal Compact High Temperature Gas Reactor
- Emily Neill (UG): Modeling Runaway Electrons Using the HEAT Code
- Gyutae (Jack) Park (G): Cost-Effective Nuclear Battery Concept for Emerging Market
- Mateo Pisinger (G): CHF Enhancement from Mixing Vane Geometries in PWR Conditi
- Grant Rutherford (G): Predictions of HFS LHCD Absorption in DIII-D LH Conditioning Targets
- Jacob van de Lindt (G): A center-fed traveling wave array antenna with image current cancelation straps for the production of fast particles to mimic burning machines
- Chris Wink (G): Diagnosing alpha-heating in NIF implosions through alpha- knock-on neutron (AKN) measurements using the MRS
Oral Presentations
Lansing Horan IV (G) (Fusion: Plasma Physics)
“Shadowgraphy measurements of a radiatively-cooled magnetic reconnection layer”
John Ball (G) (Fusion: Plasma Physics)
“Securing a fusion powered future: quantifying the proliferation risk of fusion energy”
Lorenzo Mazzocco (G) (Nuclear Reactor Engineering)
“Core Design and Analysis of Horizontal Compact High Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactor”
April 2025
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