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NSE welcomes three new faculty in 2024-25
Sophia Henneberg focuses on developing, utilizing, and extending optimization tools to identify new, promising stellarator designs, which are a promising path toward fusion energy. Ethan Peterson focuses on improving radiation transport and transmutation methods for the design of fusion technologies, as well as whole-facility modeling for fusion power plants. Dean Price focuses on the simulation and control of advanced reactors, with expertise in uncertainty quantification, scientific machine learning, and artificial intelligence for nuclear applications.
The brain power behind sustainable AI
PhD student Miranda Schwacke works with Prof Bilge Yildiz to explore how computing inspired by the human brain can fuel energy-efficient artificial intelligence.
Why some quantum materials stall while others scale
In a new study, Mingda Li and MIT researchers evaluated quantum materials’ potential for scalable commercial success — and identified promising candidates.
Mingda Li named 2025 American Physical Society Fellow
Mingda Li, an Associate Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, has been named a 2025 fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). Nominated by the Topical Group on Data Science (GDS), Li was cited, “[f]or pioneering the integration of artificial intelligence with...
By attracting the world’s sharpest talent, MIT helps keep the US a step ahead
MIT is a global community whose international engagement bestows benefits well beyond the Cambridge campus. NSE's Professor Ericmoore Jossou is one among the many international talents who are a part of the MIT community.
AI system learns from many types of scientific information and runs experiments to discover new materials
The new “CRESt” platform could help find solutions to real-world energy problems that have plagued the materials science and engineering community for decades.
Signposts on the way to new territory
Professor Zachary Hartwig, who exemplifies a rare but powerful kind of mentorship — one grounded not just in intellectual excellence, but in deep personal care, is honored as “Committed to Caring.”
New tool makes generative AI models more likely to create breakthrough materials
With SCIGEN, researchers can steer AI models to create materials with exotic properties for applications like quantum computing.
MIT’s work with Idaho National Laboratory advances America’s nuclear industry
The collaboration has led to new fuels and a variety of other projects to enable clean, safe nuclear energy.
Are coastal nuclear power plants at risk from sea level rise and climate change?
Professor Curtis Smith on why nuclear power is well-suited for climate change —