I was born at a very young age. Much later, I attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, majoring in nuclear engineering. Subsequently, I studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on a DOE NEUP fellowship. I obtained a master's in nuclear science and engineering there, with a specialization in computational reactor physics.
Following a 2-year stint at Framatome, Inc., I was hired as a neutronics analyst at INL, where I work on code development, software quality assurance, and MCNP modeling of accident-tolerant fuels. My research interests are accident-tolerant fuel lattice design, multigroup cross section generation strategies, and surrogate modeling techniques for uncertainty quantification and optimization.