March 21 – Workshop Day 1

8:30 – 09:00

Registration and poster set-up, Michigan League

Sara Pozzi

Sara Pozzi

Consortium Director and MTV Faculty, University of Michigan

Professor Sara Pozzi’s research interests include the development of new methods for nuclear materials detection, identification, and characterization for nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and national security programs. Professor Pozzi is the founding Director of the Consortium for Verification Technology (CVT) 2014-2019 and the Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification (MTV) 2019-2024, two large consortia of multiple universities and national laboratories working together to develop new technologies needed for nuclear treaty verification. In 2018, Professor Pozzi was named the inaugural Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) for the UM College of Engineering. She is a Fellow of the American Nuclear Society, the Institute of Nuclear Materials Management, and the IEEE.

Shaun Clarke

Shaun Clarke

Associate Director and MTV Faculty, University of Michigan

Dr. Clarke has more than 10 years of experience performing radiation detection measurements and Monte Carlo modeling. He has organized and performed numerous experimental campaigns involving measurements of special nuclear material with organic scintillation detectors and state-of-art digital electronics. His current interests are active interrogation systems for nuclear nonproliferation, safeguards, and treaty verification applications.


 
09:15 – 09:30

NNSA goals for MTV

Keith McManus

Deputy Director, Office of Proliferation Detection, NNSA

Colonel Keith D. McManus is a career nuclear and countering weapons of mass destruction officer with over 25 years of service. He serves as the deputy director of the Office of Proliferation Detection in the Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Research and Development at the National Nuclear Security Administration. In addition to his supervisory responsibilities, he is the federal program manager for the innovation portfolio and university consortia, and he oversees the small business innovative research portfolio. 

Keith received his Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019. His research focused on optimizing radiation detection sensors onboard small, unmanned aircraft systems for Department of Defense missions. Prior to this assignment, he served as an assistant professor and deputy program director in the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York.

Sara Pozzi

Sara Pozzi

University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor

Director, Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification (MTV)

Director, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, College of Engineering 

Paige Kunkle

Graduate Student, Boston University

Paige Kunkle is a PhD student in the particle physics program at Boston University; she specializes in neutrino physics with applications in reactor monitoring and nonproliferation. She earned her BA in physics from Princeton University, where she developed neutron detector technology for zero-knowledge warhead verification, and during her graduate school career she worked on WATCHMAN and now PROSPECT, neutrino experiments capable of monitoring nuclear reactors. She is interested in utilizing fundamental physics for arms control, and hopes to use her work to support science-based disarmament diplomacy to further the international nuclear security agenda. She has received a BU Dean’s Fellowship, NSF graduate research fellowship, and MTV doctoral fellowship in applied antineutrino physics to pursue her studies. 

Matthew Dunbrack

Graduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology

Matthew Dunbrack is a PhD Candidate in the Nuclear & Radiological Engineering Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After graduating from the University of Florida with a Bachelor of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering in 2020, Matthew joined the Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Nonproliferation and Safety (LANNS) group to focus on antineutrino detection systems for nuclear nonproliferation. Matthew received his Master of Science degree in Nuclear Engineering as well as a graduate certificate in Emerging Technologies and Proliferation in 2022. Matthew’s main interest is oriented on finding new ways of applying modern machine learning methods to nuclear engineering challenges.

Tyler Johnson
Tyler Johnson, Duke University

Tyler Johnson

MTV Antineutrino Fellow and Graduate Student, Duke University

Tyler Johnson is a 5th-year nuclear and particle physics Ph.D. student at Duke University. His doctoral research focuses on developing particle detectors for nuclear monitoring initiatives and is funded by the Consortium on Monitoring, Technology & Verification’s Applied Anti-neutrino Fellowship. Tyler’s research works towards building fundamental knowledge of neutrinos, the lightest known particle in the universe, and is currently attempting to produce the first experimental evidence of a new way to split the atom, called neutrino-induced nuclear fission or “nuFission.” He recently deployed a neutrino detector named “NuThor” to Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Spallation Neutron Source.

Tyler is an Alfred Sloan Foundation Minority Ph.D. Scholar, Robert C. Richardson Fellow, Goshaw Family Fellow, and previously a Mellon-Mays Undergraduate Fellow. He is a member of Duke’s University Center for Exemplary Mentoring Advisory Board, the Southern Regional Education Board’s Institute on Teaching & Mentoring, and the Mellon Foundation’s Mellon-Mays Graduate Initiative. He sat on two Duke Presidential Committees: President’s Council on Black Affairs and the Advisory Committee on Investment Responsibility. He also spent time at Fermi National Accelerator Lab, Oak Ridge National Lab and Google’s Community Leader Program in Chicago. Tyler received his Bachelor’s in physics from the University of Chicago.

 
Henry Burns

Henry Burns

Graduate Student, Georgia Institute of Technology

Henry graduated from Dartmouth College in 2019, where he received his Bachelor’s in Physics with a minor in Religious Studies. Currently, Henry is pursuing a PhD in Nuclear Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he is a recipient of the President’s Fellowship. He works as a research assistant studying the enrichment of uranium through laser excitation, and is interested in the development of sustainable energy.

Brad Nethercutt

Graduate Student, Pennsylvania State University

After graduating in 2021 with a B.S. in physics from Purdue University, Brad started his PhD in nuclear engineering at Penn State and joined the MTV Consortium. His research focuses on radiation detection for nuclear security and nuclear forensics purposes, especially via prompt- and delayed-gamma neutron activation analysis. This summer he will be at Oak Ridge National Lab doing nuclear forensics work.

Eric Lepowsky

Eric Lepowsky

Graduate Student, Princeton University

Eric Lepowsky is a Ph.D. student and National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, where he is a member of the Program on Science and Global Security (SGS). Eric is researching the application of robotics to nuclear safeguards and arms control, including the development of an autonomous mobile robot equipped with directional neutron detectors. His work was previously recognized with the J. D. Williams Student Paper Award (Divisional Winner in Nonproliferation and Arms Control) at the INMM/ESARDA 2021 Joint Annual Meeting. Eric has also contributed to the development of an inspection protocol and device for confirming the absence of nuclear warheads via passive gamma-ray measurements. Prior to joining SGS, Eric graduated from the University of Connecticut with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics.

Tessa Maurer

Tessa Maurer

Graduate Student, University of Michigan

Tessa Maurer is a first-year masters student at the University of Michigan in the Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences. She has been working with Professor Pozzi’s nonproliferation group since her undergraduate career, and her research interests include machine learning, nuclear nonproliferation, detection, and measurements.

13:15 – 14:10

CVT/MTV Consortia Alumni Panel, Moderated by Shaun Clarke

Panel recording linked here

Angela Di Fulvio

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois

Dr. Angela Di Fulvio is an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering (NPRE) at the University of Illinois, director of the Neutron Measurement Laboratory, and a researcher in the technical aspects of nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation. Before joining NPRE, Angela was a research scientist at the University of Michigan and a Postodoc at Yale University. Her current interests include the technical aspects of nuclear safeguards and nonproliferation, and techniques and algorithms for the radiation protection of the patient in radiation therapy.

Michael Hua

Graduate Student, Helion

Bio

Steven Czyz

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Steven earned his B.S.E. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2013, and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from Oregon State University in 2016 and 2019, respectively. During his time as a graduate student he was a fellow of the Consortium of Verification Technology, with research focusing on detector design for verification of the international Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. He began his postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2020, and was converted to staff scientist in January 2023. His current research is split between improving decision algorithms supporting emergency responders for nuclear and radiological WMD threats, and developing software to aid in test planning and performance comparison of commercial radiation detection systems.

Meghan McGarry

Systems Analyst, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 

Dr. Meghan McGarry is the point of contact for the MTV consortium at LLNL as well as a systems analyst: she creates rigorous frameworks to address poorly-bounded problems.  Her technical work is focused on modeling and simulation of the nuclear fuel cycle. She has a variety of global security interests including international safeguards, critical infrastructure resilience, intelligent adversary risk assessment, and cybersecurity. She is passionate about issues at the intersection of science and policy, particularly in the areas of nonproliferation, space policy, and deterrence. Dr. McGarry earned a Ph.D. in experimental physics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, using X-ray emission for tomographic imaging and temperature measurements in magnetically confined plasmas.

Tony Shin

Staff Scientist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dr. Shin is a staff scientist in the Space Science and Applications Group (ISR-1) at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in Nuclear Engineering in 2019, where he studied fast-neutron multiplicity counting for nuclear safeguards applications. Upon the completion of his doctoral work, he went to LANL as a Director’s Postdoctoral Fellow in ISR-1 to develop an intelligent mobile multi-sensor network for radiation contamination mapping. As a scientist, Dr. Shin’s science research projects involve advancing radiation detection techniques for planetary science, nuclear emergency response, and homeland security applications. His programmatic work focuses on algorithm development and high-fidelity Monte Carlo simulations to support ISR-1’s Space Nuclear Detonation Detection mission.

Goran Ekstrom

Faculty, Columbia University

Goran Ekstrom is a geophysicist recognized for his seismological investigations of heterogeneous elastic structure in the Earth’s deep interior, and for discoveries and understanding coming from the interpretation of seismic signals generated by earthquakes, volcanoes, glacier calving, landslides, and underground nuclear explosions. Ekstrom was born and grew up outside Stockholm, Sweden. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 1981 with a degree in physics and did postbaccalaureate work in seismology at Moscow State University, USSR. He graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with a Ph.D. in geophysics. After post-doctoral work at Columbia University, he joined the faculty at Harvard in 1990 as professor of geology and geophysics. In 2006 Ekstrom moved to Columbia University where he is professor of Earth and environmental sciences. His teaching includes environmental hazards and risk assessment. Ekstrom has served as chair of the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology, the EarthScope Steering Committee, the International Federation of Digital Seismographic Networks, and the International Seismological Centre executive committee and Governing Council. In 2015 he was awarded the Beno Gutenberg Medal by the European Geophysical Union for his outstanding contributions to seismology. In 2019 he was elected member of the US National Academy of Sciences.

Emily Kwapis

Graduate Student, University of Florida

Emily Kwapis is a 4th year PhD candidate in nuclear engineering at the University of Florida. She works with Dr. Kyle C. Hartig in the Optical Science and Nonproliferation Laboratory studying optical detection methods to improve the wide area environmental sampling of actinides. She is also a graduate fellow of US DoD Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) program and graduated from the University of Michigan in 2019 with a B.S.E. in nuclear engineering and radiological sciences.

Sarah Popenhagen

Sarah Popenhagen

Graduate Student, University of Hawaiʻi

Sarah is a third-year PhD student researching under Dr. Milton Garcés at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She completed her bachelor’s degree in physics with a concentration in geophysics at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2020. Her current research is focused on airborne collection of infrasound signals, acoustic signatures of rocket launch sequences, and machine learning methods.

Garrett Wendel

MTV Antineutrino Fellow and Graduate Student, Penn State University

Garrett’s research focuses on using Monte Carlo simulation and deep-learning, likelihood-free inference techniques to reconstruct low energy anti-neutrino inverse beta decay events in Eos and LiquidO. With this approach he aims to improve the resolution of neutrino reconstruction through inclusion of all available event parameters and dramatically simplify the reconstruction tuning process for each detector. Garrett is an MTV Antineutrino fellow. 

Jesus Valencia

Jesus Valencia

Graduate Student, University of New Mexico

Jesus is a fourth-year PhD student at the University of New Mexico’s Department of Nuclear Engineering, working under Dr. Adam Hecht. His current research explores the utilization of cosmic-ray muons for tomographic reconstruction of dry-cask storage containers for spent nuclear fuel. Jesus’s contributions include developing and testing multi-dimensional image reconstruction algorithms that can be used to verify dry-cask container contents. He has also been a year-round intern at Sandia National Laboratories in the Nuclear Verification Department for the past five years. Some of his tasks at SNL include simulation and characterization of radiation detection systems, developed for nonproliferation and arms control verification applications.

Ryan Bouabid

MTV Antineutrino Fellow and Graduate Student, Duke University 

Coherent Elastic Neutrino Nucleus Scattering is one way in which neutrinos interact with matter. It has the potential to be a key ingredient in the broader goal of using neutrinos to monitor nuclear reactors. Ryan’s research is focused on measuring this process at the Spallation Neutron Source at Oak Ridge National Lab, and using this experiment as a test bed for future
applications at a nuclear reactor.

Ethan Klein

Ethan Klein

Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ethan A. Klein is a 5th year Nuclear Science and Engineering Ph.D. candidate at MIT. His research focuses on the development of novel nuclear detection technologies and is funded by a Nuclear Nonproliferation International Safeguards graduate fellowship. He is a member of the MIT group voted the ACA’s 2019 Arms Control Person of the Year and was a member of the 2019-20 Stanford U.S.-Russia Forum’s arms control working group. Mr. Klein formerly served as a policy advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and a science policy fellow at the Institute for Defense Analyses. Mr. Klein holds an S.B. in Chemistry and Physics from MIT.

Ricardo Lopez

Ricardo Lopez

Graduate Student, University of Michigan 

Ricardo graduated from the University of Michigan in 2020 with a B.S.E in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences and then joined the DNNG in the Fall of 2020 while pursuing a master’s degree. In the Fall of 2021, he continued with the DNNG as a Ph.D. student. His current research interests include organic scintillators and nuclear safeguards. His graduate research focuses on particle imaging for nonproliferation applications.

Kelly Truax

Kelly Truax

Graduate Student, University of Hawaiʻi

Ms. Truax completed a B.F.A. from Missouri State University in 2013 and a B.S. in Professional Geology from Mississippi State University in 2019. She is recognized by the Mississippi State Board of Registered Professional Geologists as a GIT. After joining the MTV Consortium in 2019, she completed her M.S. at the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa in Earth and Planetary Sciences in 2020 developing a methodology for use of laser induced fluorescence in biota. She is currently continuing her research in the
pursuit of a Ph.D. at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Currently, research focus is interested in the behavior/reactions of atomic or sub-atomic particles in conjunction with varying soil, water, climate, atmosphere, and composition parameters found in the environment. Remote sensing, laser induced fluorescence, image and data analysis, and environmental monitoring are the primary research areas.

Juliann Lamproe

Juliann Lamproe

Graduate Student, University of Michigan

Juliann graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in Nuclear Engineering and a certificate in Safety Engineering in Spring 2020. She started as a graduate student at the University of Michigan in Fall 2020. During her undergraduate studies, she spent multiple summers working with Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) where her current research began. She now works as a full time engineer at LANL while continuing her research to improve nuclear data sensitivity capabilities for neutron noise measurements.

Alexander Kavner

Graduate Student, University of Michigan

Alexander Kavner is a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan and a NNSA LRGF Fellow. As part of the fellowship program, he is based full-time and conducts his research at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Alexander’s current work is in the development of novel detector technology for use in nuclear safeguards, nuclear forensics, and fundamental nuclear and particle physics. He has extensive research experience in radiation detection and measurement and have conducted experiments in locations including deep underground laboratories, university research reactors, and the Dresden Nuclear Generating Station. Alexander is excited about the development of new detector technology both for science as well as in the interest of national security. 

Katie Ballard

Katie Ballard

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Katie Ballard is a sophomore studying Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at the University of Michigan. She began research in July 2019, and currently does research through the Consortium for Monitoring Technology and Verification as an undergraduate fellow. Her work focuses on detection analysis using Pulse Shape Discrimination (PSD) including the simulation of PSD to address systematic errors in experiment.

Anne Shen

Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Anne received her bachelor’s degree in Biology from Wellesley College in 2017 and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Computational and Systems Biology at MIT. As a member of the Alm lab, her research focuses on developing microbial genome-wide association methods to link bacterial genotypes with phenotypes such as resistance to ionizing radiation. Outside of lab, Anne enjoys watching nature documentaries and visiting botanical gardens.

Ryan Kim

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Ryan Kim is an undergraduate junior studying computer science at the University of Michigan. He works with Professor Kearfott in the Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory. His primary interests are in both hardware and firmware design for radiological instrumentation.

Jackson Eggerd

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Jackson Eggerd is an undergraduate sophomore studying Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He works with Dr. Kimberlee Kearfott in the Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory where he is helping to develop a virtual reality game about radiation protection.

Ernesto Enriquez

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Ernesto Enriquez is an undergraduate sophomore studying computer science at the University of Michigan. He works with Professor Kearfott in the Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory. His primary interest lies in software development.

Heather MacGregor

Graduate Student, University of California, Berkeley

Heather MacGregor
University of California, Berkeley

[email protected]

MTV Graduate Associate, Ph.D. start: 2020

Meredith Doan 

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Meredith Doan is an undergraduate sophomore studying computer engineering at the University of Michigan. She works with Professor Kearfott in the Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory. Her primary interest is in software development.

Jordyn Vermut

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Jordyn Vermut is an undergraduate freshman from Princeton, New Jersey studying aerospace engineering at the University of Michigan. She works with Professor Kearfott in the Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory. Her primary tasks are in drone design and piloting for radiation detection.

Flynn Darby

Flynn Darby

Graduate Student, University of Michigan

Flynn Darby is a second-year Ph.D. student at the University of Michigan studying neutron noise fission chain measurement techniques using organic scintillators. With the support of MTV, he conducted measurements of fast, highly-enriched uranium configurations and a zero-power water-moderated reactor. Flynn hopes to focus his dissertation on contrasting several neutron noise techniques for these two systems.

Siddharth Gupta

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Siddharth Gupta is currently a freshman, expecting to graduate in May 2026 with a BSE in aerospace engineering and a minor in computer science or material science. He works with Professor Kearfott in the Radiological Health Engineering Lab. Siddharth Gupta is currently interested in research in sustainable aviation and nuclear propulsion for aircrafts.

Kabir Khwaja

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Kabir is a sophomore studying Aerospace Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan. He began working with the Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory on the Intelligent Radiation Awareness Drone project in October 2022. His work focuses on using 3D printing to develop affordable and rapidly reproducible parts for unmanned aerial vehicles. He is interested in autonomous vehicles, sustainable aviation, and additive manufacturing.

John Learned

John Learned

MTV Faculty, University of Hawaiʻi

John Learned has the title of Professor of Physics at the University of Hawaii, Manoa campus, where he has been on the faculty since 1980. Prior to that he taught and did research at the University of California at Irvine, the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the University of Wisconsin, and the High Altitude Laboratory at Echo Lake, Colorado. He obtained a PhD in physics at the University of Washington in 1968, an MS from the University of Pennsylvania in 1963, and a BS from Columbia College in 1961. In between schooling he worked for two aerospace companies as an engineer, including the Boeing Company, which was what brought him to Seattle in 1963.

John has a list of over 300 publications, mostly relating to the study of elementary particle physics and astrophysics, and has more than 47 thousand citations and a citation h_hep index of 92 (2018) . He has been a pioneer in the attempt to start a new field of particle astrophysics, viewing the universe in the light of what may be the dominant form of matter, neutrinos. This brought him to Hawaii in 1980 to begin a long process of studying the deep ocean as a venue for this attempt, and developing the technology to do so. He is a world authority in particle astrophysics, and travels widely to give invited lectures at international meetings. Currently his group is heavily involved in several underground experiments in Kamioka, Japan. The Super-Kamiokande experiment is observing neutrinos from our sun, studying neutrinos produced by cosmic rays hitting the earth’s atmosphere, looking for the decay of protons, and keeping watch for supernovae in our galaxy. This experiment produced evidence for neutrino oscillations and mass, with much acclaim in 1998 leading to a Nobel Prize in 2015. The group also participated in a landmark long base line neutrino experiment, K2K, in which neutrinos were sent from an accelerator laboratory (KEK) in Japan to the SuperK detector, 250 km through the Japanese alps and muon neutrino oscillations were confirmed.

Nicholas Stubblefield

Graduate Student, University of Michigan

Nicholas Stubblefield is a first-year nuclear engineering master’s student at the University of Michigan. After graduating Boston College in 2020 with degrees in physics and political science, Nicholas enjoyed a series of COVID misadventures, abbreviated volunteer placements, and sporadic night gigs that eventually put him in the more stable employment of a political historian.

In 2022 he returned to school in the hopes a master’s program could inform his interest in pursuing a PhD. It has, and he will not.  

Upon graduation, Nicholas plans to bid a firm yet tasteful farewell to laboratory work and use his interdisciplinary education to seek a career in science and technology policy with an emphasis on nuclear security.  

 

 

Christopher Davis

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Christopher Davis is an undergraduate at the University of Michigan, currently studying Computer Science and Mathematics. He is interested in robotics, machine vision, algorithms research, and any other mathematically-focused intersections with Computer Science.

Matthew Lazaric

Matthew Lazaric

Graduate Student, University of New Mexico

Lazaric is a PhD candidate and the University of New Mexico. His thesis topic is on resonance parameter sensitivities with a focus on the pole representation and R-matrix. Lazaric was raised in Maui, Hawaii where he was instilled with respect for the land and a worry that we need to do more to protect our environment. Lazaric chose to go into nuclear engineering as he felt it was the perfect combination of the math and science that he loves, with the potential of nuclear power to provide a green future.

Isabella De Sousa

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Isabella De Sousa is currently a freshman in the college of Engineering at the University of Michigan. She works in research in Dr. Kearfott’s Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory. She is trying to decide between majoring in computer engineering or computer science.

Hadi Elghoul 

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Hadi Elghoul is a computer science undergraduate freshman at the University of Michigan. He works with Professor Kearfott in the Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory on the DoseBusters Project. His primary interests are in computer programming and creating 3D Models to improve the realism of a physics environment.

Carly Evans

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Carly Evans is a sophomore undergraduate student at the University of Michigan studying nuclear engineering and radiological science. She works in the Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory for Professor Kearfott. Carly is deciding among the various opportunities for a career in the nuclear sciences and currently considering pursuing a master’s degree in nuclear engineering. In her spare time, she is a member of the university band and water polo club team.

Samuel “Kei” Takazawa

Graduate Student, University of Hawaiʻi

Kei is a 4th-year Ph. D. student researching under Dr. Milton A. Garcés working with explosion data collected on traditional and smartphone sensors. His research focuses on explosion detection and classification by applying machine learning methods on curated data for such purposes. Kei has a B.S. in Physics and Applied Math from Wheaton College and a M.S. in Applied Math from Northeastern University.

Jawad Ribhi Moussa

Jawad Moussa

Graduate Student, University of New Mexico

Jawad Ribhi Moussa is a graduate student at the University of New Mexico where he assists Dr. Anil K. Prinja at conducting research in novel methods for stochastic neutronics modeling and simulation with application to nuclear safeguards. Jawad Ribhi Moussa obtained his Bachelors of Science in Biochemistry with a Minor in Mathematics with honors from the University of New Mexico in 2015. He is also bilingual speaking, reading, and writing both Arabic and English fluently.

Hythem Beydoun

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Hythem Beydoun is currently a freshman at the University of Michigan, expecting to graduate in May 2026 with a bachelor’s in electrical engineering. He works in Professor Kearfott’s lab, contributing to the development of the Intelligent Radiation Awareness Drone (IRAD). He plans to pursue a master’s or Ph.D. in engineering and to continue to pursue research and development throughout his undergraduate and postgraduate career.

Meredith Doan

Undergraduate Student, University of Michigan

Meredith Doan is an undergraduate sophomore studying computer engineering at the University of Michigan. She works with Professor Kearfott in the Radiological Health Engineering Laboratory. Her primary interest is in software development.