This summer has been an exciting time for our students! Graduate students Elvan Sahin and Joon Hyuck Moon completed internships at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), respectively, where they gained …
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Eliot Ciuperca receives best presentation award!
Congratulations to the undergraduate students from HEATS Lab who presented their work during the ANS Student Meeting 2024! A special shoutout to Eliot Ciuperca on his award for best presentation in Computational Methods, Machine Learning, …
Duarte leads NRC-backed research project
Prof. Duarte receives Distinguished Early Career Program Award from NEUP
Using machine learning in data analysis
Ph.D. students Elvan Sahin and Bruno Pinheiro Serrao published part of their Ph.D. work this month! If you want to learn more about their work using ML to improve our understanding of fire dynamics and …
Congratulations to Paul Hurley for his Ph.D. Defense!
Paul Hurley received his B.Sc. degree in Physics from Boston University in 2018 and joined HEATS Lab in that same year. He got an M.Sc. degree in Nuclear Engineering from Virginia Tech in 2020 working …
PhD student Sahin published his master’s thesis work in the Nuclear Science and Engineering journal!
Congratulations to Elvan Sahin for his publication! His paper was invited for the 2021 International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2021) Special Issue. Sahin, E., Leite, V.C., Kim, K.M., Burns, N., …
PhD students Bruno Serrao and Paul Hurley presented their research at the ANS Winter Meeting
The 2023 American Nuclear Society Winter Meeting was held in Phoenix, AZ, on November 13-17. Bruno Serrao presented the paper entitled “Investigation of Droplet Heat Transfer Using Optical Fiber Sensors“, which was developed at Virginia …
HEATS Lab at UW-Madison
We are very excited to join the University of Wisconsin-Madison this fall! Read more about Dr. Duarte’s research in the new faculty story at https://engineering.wisc.edu/news/focus-on-new-faculty-juliana-pacheco-duarte-enhancing-the-safety-of-nuclear-reactors/.