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Dean Price: Working to advance the nuclear renaissance
Assistant Professor Dean Price sees a bright future for nuclear power, and he believes artificial intelligence can help us realize that vision
Sophia Henneberg: Championing fusion’s promising underdog
Assistant Professor Sophia Henneberg is developing stellarators to harness fusion energy
Taylor Hampson: Fueling research in nuclear thermal propulsion
Taylor Hampson, masters student in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering is modeling the behavior of an unconventional rocket engine that will heat propellant using nuclear energy.
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.
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...
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.
The World at MIT: Ericmoore Jossou
Ericmoore Jossou tells his students he doesn’t see his research as a job, but “as a calling. When I get up every day, solving these problems is always what’s on my mind.”
Theory-guided strategy expands the scope of measurable quantum interactions
A new study by Mingda Li and his team finds an oft-ignored effect can be used to probe an important property of semiconductors.