Ph.D. Alumni

Catherine Apgar

Alumna, PhD 2024

Catherine was a PhD student and a member of the nuclear data group at UC Berkeley. She performed data analysis as a member of the 2019 Master of Engineering cohort at UC Berkeley and prior to that for five years in the insurance industry. more

Christopher Brand

Alumnus, PhD 2024

Chris Brand was a PhD student at UC-Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering and is currently employed by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). He performed research in support of the fast, mono-energetic neutron imaging project at LLNL which includes various simulation/experimental efforts for neutron diagnostics. more

Tyler Nagel

Alumnus, PhD 2024

Tyler Nagel was a PhD student in Nuclear Engineering under Dr. Lee Bernstein. He received his M.S. from UC Berkeley in 2020 for work on lepton recoil corrections in beta-delayed neutron spectroscopy using trapped ions. His research involved cross section measurements for neutron induced reactions on Cl-35. more

Sarah Stevenson

Alumna, PhD 2022

Sarah Stevenson was a PhD student in Peter Hosemann’s Nuclear Materials Group at UC Berkeley, developing a novel ion beam degrader to support materials science research at the 88-Inch Cyclotron. more

Morgan Fox

Alumnus, PhD 2021

Morgan Fox was a Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley working in Lee Bernstein's Nuclear Data Group at LBNL. He is a member of the Isotope Program experimental sub-team within the group and his work to date has focused on proton-induced reactions on arsenic as well as charged-particle modeling. more

Eric Matthews

Alumnus, Assistant Research Engineer, PhD 2021

Eric was an Assistant Research Engineer in Nuclear Engineering at UC Berkeley, whose work focused on the physics and nuclear data of fission. more

Jonathan Morrell

Alumnus, PhD 2021

Jonathan was a Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. student at UC Berkeley, and graduated in May 2021. His research interests are in isotope production, nuclear reaction modeling, and precision spectroscopy. more

Amanda Lewis

Alumna, PhD 2020

Amanda Lewis was a graduate student in the UC-Berkeley Department of Nuclear Engineering. She is a Rickover Fellow, and joined the Naval Nuclear Laboratory after graduating in May 2020. more

Austin Lo

Alumnus, PhD 2020

Austin was a PhD candidate at University of California, Berkeley in nuclear engineering and graduated in Fall 2020. His main pursuit is in novel approaches to fission reactor generated plasmas for applications to space nuclear power systems. more

Edgardo (Eddie) Browne-Moreno – In Memoriam

Graduate Alumni

Preston Awedisean

Alumnus

Preston was a student in the Nuclear Engineering department at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focused on nuclear source analysis and threat adjudication. more

Undergraduate Alumni

Char Juin Chin

Undergraduate Student

Char Juin Chin was an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley studying Computer Science and Linguistics. His research focused on natural language processing and its applications in nuclear data with NucScholar. more

Shi Hao Lee

Undergraduate Student

Shi Hao Lee wass an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. His research focused on natural language processing techniques and Large Language Models for NucScholar. more

Jonathan Li

Alumnus, B.S.

Jonathan Li was an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley studying Engineering Physics. His research focused on constructing search algorithms and models for NucScholar, a natural language processing platform for nuclear science literature. more

Laura Shi

Alumna, B.S.

Laura Shi was an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley majoring in Nuclear Engineering and minoring in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS). Her research focused on AI and natural language processing techniques for nuclear data applications. more

Mingqi Zeng

Undergraduate Student

Mingqi Zeng was an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley pursuing studies in Data Science and Economics. Her passion lies in utilizing data tools to uncover hidden patterns while also exploring the realm of natural language processing for automation purposes. more