The ETI Consortium is composed of fourteen universities and twelve national laboratories. All participating members have stellar research and education records and represent a diverse group of faculty members to carry out the proposed activities.
Consortium Director
Anna Erickson
Professor, Nuclear and Radiological Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Erickson has been involved in a broad range of research for nuclear nonproliferation, ranging from nonproliferation-by-design for advanced nuclear reactors to active interrogation methods in homeland security. She has been working closely with a number of national laboratories, including subcontracts from LLNL on NNSA-funded projects. Her expertise in nuclear nonproliferation is highlighted in various journal publications and a recently published book entitled Active Interrogation in Nuclear Security (NatureSpringer 2018).
Thrust Area Leads
Paul Wilson
Grainger Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Department of Engineering Physics
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul Wilson’s research interests focus on developing improved tools for computational modeling of complex nuclear energy systems, with applications in radiation shielding, nuclear waste management, nuclear non-proliferation and energy policy.
Steven Biegalski
Chair, Nuclear and Radiological Engineering and Medical Physics Program
Georgia Institute of Technology
Steven Biegalski’s research focuses on nuclear analytical methods, nuclear instrumentation, and nuclear forensics. Previously, he was the Director of the Nuclear Engineering Laboratory (NETL) and a Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at The UT Austin.
Raymond Cao
Professor and Chair of Nuclear Engineering Program, Director of OSU Nuclear Reactor Laboratory
The Ohio State University
Raymond Cao conducts research at the intersection of nuclear, materials, and physics. His primary focuses are on novel sensors for radiation detection, nuclear and in-pile instrumentation, and the use of neutrons to probe nuclear and non-nuclear materials.
Directors
Milton Garces
Laboratory Director
Founder and Director, Infrasound Laboratory
University of Hawaiʻi
Founder and Director of the Infrasound Laboratory (ISLA) at the Hawai’i Institute of Geophysics & Planetology, Milton Garces’ research interests include infrasound, seismology, fluid dynamics, treaty monitoring, and acoustics. He has extensive experience working with the Department of Defense and Department of Energy.
Pavel Tsvetkov
Academic Director
Associate Professor and Graduate Program Advisor,
Department of Nuclear Engineering,
Texas A&M University
An Associate Professor and Faculty Graduate Adviser within the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Texas A&M University, Pavel Tsvetkov’s research specializes in system analysis and optimization methods with applications towards complex engineered systems.
Faculty co-PIs
Anant Agarwal
Professor,
Electrical & Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Prior to OSU, Agarwal was Senior Advisor for Wide Bandgap (WBG) semiconductors at the US DOE where he helped create and manage several programs ($125 M) including PowerAmerica to bolster US competitiveness in manufacturing of WBG.
Joseph Beaman
Earnest F. Gloyna Regents Chair in Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Beaman’s research focuses on Solid Freeform Fabrication (SFF), a manufacturing technology that produces freeform solid objects directly from a computer model of the object without part-specific tooling or knowledge. One of the most successful SFF approaches, Selective Laser Sintering, was developed in his laboratory.
David Carlson
Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Duke University
David also has appointments in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Computer Science. His research focus is machine learning, predictive modeling, health data science, statistical neuroscience.
Aurora Clark
Professor, Department of Chemistry
Washington State University
Clark is also Director of the Center for Institutional Research Computing, Interim Director of the Institute of Nuclear Science and Technology, and Deputy Director of IDREAM Energy Frontier Research Center.
Brian Clowers
Associate Professor,
Department of Chemistry
Washington State University
Clowers is working on new approaches for rapid gas-phase separations using ion mobility and mass spectrometry. He maintains a joint appointment between WSU and PNNL and actively mentors students addressing challenges across the CBRNE space.
John Fisher
Senior Research Scientist
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Fisher is the leader of the Sensing, Learning, and Inference Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research is on signal level approaches to multi-modal data fusion, distributed inference under resource constraints, & sensor networks.
Derek Haas
Assistant Professor,
Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin
Haas is working on radiation detection for nuclear arms control and nonproliferation. He is one of five surrogate inspectors from the US for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty and is a technical advisor for US nuclear arms control and nonproliferation policy development. He joined the UTA faculty after eight years at PNNL.
Alfred Hero
John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor of EECS
R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering
University of Michigan
Hero is the John H. Holland Distinguished University Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the R. Jamison and Betty Williams Professor of Engineering. He is also co-Director of the University’s Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). His research is on data science and developing theory and algorithms for data collection, analysis and visualization.
Jonathan How
R.C. Maclaurin Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
How’s research focuses on aviation and control, design and implementation of distributed robust planning algorithms to coordinate multiple autonomous vehicles in dynamic uncertain environments and adaptive flight control.
Jinsong Huang
Professor,
Department of Applied Physical Sciences
University of North Carolina
Huang is an expert in electronic material development and characterization, in particular perovskite photodetectors. He has active and past collaboration with several national laboratories including SLAC, ORNL, and NREL.
Amit Jariwala
Director of Design & Innovation
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jariwala has over nine years of research experience in modeling, simulation, engineering design, and manufacturing process development, with research focus on design of polymer based micro additive manufacturing process.
Bernard Kippelen
Joseph M. Pettit Professor and Director of Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics
Georgia Institute of Technology
Kippelen is the expert on organic light-emitting devices for displays and lighting, flexible organic photovoltaic cells for power generation, organic photodetectors and sensors, and printed electronics.
Robert Nowak
McFarland-Bascom Professor in Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nowak’s research focuses on signal processing, machine learning, optimization, and statistics.
Siddharth Rajan
Professor,
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The Ohio State University
Rajan’s area of research is the design, growth, and fabrication of advanced wide band gap electronic and optoelectronic devices where he has co-authored over 120 journal papers and 5 patents. He has worked with SNL since 2012.
Steven Ringel
Distinguished University Professor and the Neal Smith Chair in Electrical Engineering
The Ohio State University
Ringel is the Associate VP for Research and the Executive Director of the Institute for Materials Research. Ringel authored/co-authored over 400 technical articles and conference presentations.
Jonathan Rogers
Lockheed Martin Associate Professor of Avionics Integration
Aerospace Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Roger’s focus is on UAV design, flight dynamics and controls, autonomy algorithms, and novel air vehicle concepts.
Alan Sellinger
Professor
Department of Chemistry
Colorado School of Mines
Sellinger’s research focuses on the design, synthesis and characterization of organic, polymeric, and hybrid based materials for application in solar cells, thin film transistors, scintillation, metal/covalent organic frameworks and surface chemistry. He holds a joint appointment with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).
Jenifer Shafer
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry
Colorado School of Mines
Shafer is a member of the Nuclear Science & Engineering Program. Her areas of research include radiochemistry, nuclear chemistry and analytical chemistry. She worked at PNNL for two years prior to joining CSM.
Michael Short
Associate Professor
Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Short develops new ways to sense the effects of radiation on objects via their material properties, including whether they have been irradiated at all. In this consortium, his group will focus on detecting tiny amounts of radiation damage, particularly in additively manufactured components, which could be used to manufacture or store special nuclear materials.
Dan Thoma
Professor,
Materials Science Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thoma is the Director of the Grainger Institute for Engineering. His research focuses on metal additive manufacturing, processing, digital manufacturing, alloy design, phase transformations, and advanced materials
Phil Townsend
Professor of Remote Sensing and Ecosystems
Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor
Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology
College of Agricultural and Life Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Townsend uses visible-to-shortwave infrared imaging spectroscopy to measure chemical functional traits and physiological status of plants and develops remote techniques to detect variations isotopic concentrations in foliage.
Andreas Velten
Assistant Professor,
Biostatistics & Medical Informatics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Velten’s research focuses on developing new computational optics and imaging methods, including ultrafast cameras capturing videos of light propagation and Non-Line-of-Sight imaging by computational analysis of diffuse reflections.