Past Members

Guillaume Gesmier (Aug/23-Feb/24)
Graduate Intern, Paris-Saclay University

Briunna Smith (Fall 2023)
Undergraduate Student, bdsmith9@wisc.edu

 

Aria Murphy (Summer-Fall/2023)
Undergraduate Student, jmurphy38@wisc.edu

 

Norah Fahad Alsharif (Summer-Fall 2023)
Undergraduate Student, nalsharif@wisc.edu

 

*Position just after graduation or supervision

Paul Hurley, former Ph.D. student
Dissertation: Density-Wave Instability Characterization in Boiling Water Reactors under MELLLA+ Domain during ATWS
*Engineer – Reactor Nuclear and Thermal Hydraulics Physics and Methods, GE Hitachi

Dr. Kyung Mo Kim, former postdoc researcher
*Postdoc researcher at the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor

Abdulsalam I. Shakhatreh, former M.Sc. student
Thesis: Investigation of Chloride-induced Stress Corrosion Cracking for Long-Term Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel in Dry Storage Systems
*Engineering manager at Robatel Technologies

Ali H. Karabacak, former M.Sc. student
Thesis: Desing of the high Pressure HIgh-temperature annuLUS flow (PHILUS) Facility
*Business developer at BPlas, Turkey

 

Undergraduate students who worked with us

Position after working in our lab.

Ignis database:
Samridhi Roshan, Major in Computer Science, 2021-2022. Ph.D. student at the University of Texas. Austin.

Chloride-induced stress corrosion cracking:
Peter Wynnyk, Major in Material Science and Engineering, 2021-2022.
Alex deJong, Major in Material Science and Engineering, 2020-2021. Ph.D. student in MSE Student at Johns Hopkins University.

Boiling heat transfer:
Evelyn Washburn, Major in Mechanical Engineering, 2021-2022.
Erik Sharrer, Major in Mechanical Engineering, 2020-2021. Performance Engineer at GE Power.
Abdulla Alblooshi, Major in Chemical Engineering, 2019-2020.

BWR Thermal-hydraulics:
Shane Carroll, Major in Ocean Engineering, Summer 2021.

PHILUS Facility:
Max McAllister, Major in Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2022.
Manny Z. Lopes, Major in Mechanical Engineering, 2022-2022.
Daynial Khan, Major in Mechanical Engineering, Summer, 2021.
Matthew Kramer, Major in Mechanical Engineering, Spring, 2021.
Jeric Demasana, Major in Electrical Engineering and Nanoscience, 2019-2021. Pathways Systems Engineer.

Inverse heat transfer:
Shubham Rath, Major in Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2019. †Graduate Research Assistant at Virginia Tech.

Reliability and risk assessment:
Renzhi Hu, Major in Mechanical Engineering, Spring 2021. M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Southern California.
Nick Burns, Major in Chemical Engineering, 2019-2020. Production Engineer at Honeywell.
Jenny McAneney, Major in Mechanical Engineering, Fall 2020.