Category: NML News

Professor Angela Di Fulvio is the new Director of the Program in Arms Control & Domestic and International Security (ACDIS). ACDIS is an interdisciplinary venture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that facilitates objective research, academics, and outreach about international security issues within the academic and policymaking communities.

The mission of ACDIS is to inform domestic and international security policy decision making and implementation through focused interdisciplinary research, thoughtful and objective analysis, and effective communication and teaching.

She is excited to further ACDIS work at the interface between policy and engineering, particularly in the domain of nuclear security, international safeguards, and nonproliferation.

Congratulations to Jianxin for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Jianxin’s thesis project focuses on the development of machine-learning algorithms and advanced materials for radiation protection of the patient in radiation therapy, under the guidance of Prof. Di Fulvio.

Prof. Di Fulvio gave two oral presentations at the INMM 65th Annual Meeting on “Efficient On-Board Image Reconstruction Algorithms for a High-Density-Channel Imager” and “Fast and Accurate Identification of TRISO-Fueled Pebbles Based on X-Ray CT”, respectively.

Ming was awarded the 2024 NPSS Glenn F. Knoll Graduate Educational Grant, which is the most prestigious award to students (submitted before he graduated) in radiation measurements given by the IEEE Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society. This award recognizes outstanding graduate students in the field of nuclear science instrumentation, medical instrumentation, or instrumentation for security applications.

Congratulations to Ming for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Ming’s thesis project focuses on developing advanced methods for the tracking and tagging of TRIstructural ISOtropic (TRISO) fuel pebbles in pebble bed reactors (PBRs), under the guidance of Prof. Di Fulvio. Read more.

NML student Kholod Mahmoud presented her work on enhancing Positron Emission Tomography using the positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy technique at the 2023 NSS MIC RTSD conference.

Prof. Angela Di Fulvio has been promoted to Associate Professor. Congratulations, Angela! Read more here.

Congratulations to NML student Jianxin Zhou, who has just passed his prelim and becomes a PhD Candidate! His thesis project is on “Machine-learning Models and Shielding Materials for Radiation Protection of Patients and Personnel in Particle Therapy”.

NML student John Leland attended the International Nuclear Data and Analytical Techniques (INDAT) Summer School cohosted by UC Berkeley and UC Davis. This program consists of lectures and hands-on activities involving nuclear detection, analysis techniques, and aspects of the nuclear data pipeline, from measurement and modeling to compilation and evaluation.