Active Projects

  1. Optimization of Fueling Strategies and Material Surveillance through Real-time Tracking in Pebble Bed Reactors (sponsored by the DOE-NEUP)
  2. Non-destructive Plutonium Assay in Pyroprocessing Bulk Materials with a 3D Boron-Coated-Straw Detector Array (sponsored by the DOE-NEUP)
  3. Enhanced FLASH Proton Therapy Using Real-Time Dose and Range Monitoring (sponsored by BEAT initiative – Cancer Center at Illinois and OSF HealthCare Cancer Institute)
  4. Ex-core Microreactor Monitoring (EM2) for autonomous operation (sponsored by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission)
  5. Statistical Methods and Machine Learning for Quantitative Radiation Imaging and Characterization of Special Nuclear Material (sponsored by the NNSA – NSSC3 consortium)

Past projects

  1. Positronium Annihilation Lifetime Tomography
  2. High-Fidelity Radiation Detection and Light Readout Models based on Scintillators and Silicon Photomultipliers (sponsored by Sandia National Lab)
  3. Acoustic Contrast Agents Sensitive to Ionizing Radiation (sponsored by the NRC)
  4. Point-cloud segmentation for radiation therapy (sponsored by the JUMP-ARCHES)
  5. Radiation damage in geopolymer composites (sponsored by CERL)
  6. Licensing of Micro Modular Nuclear Reactor for Siting at UIUC (sponsored by UltraSafe Nuclear Corporation)