Alexander Barzilov, Ph.D.
Project Director, Professor, Nuclear Engineering
Alexander Barzilov is a professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering at UNLV. He teaches courses in nuclear engineering and mechanical engineering: fundamentals of nuclear engineering, radiation monitoring, particle accelerator applications, neutron detection, nuclear reactor analysis, computational methods, and engineering measurements. He is an active graduate advisor and is currently…
Ke-Xun (Kevin) Sun, Ph.D., P.E.
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Ke-Xun (Kevin) Sun is a professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He currently teaches courses in Photonics, Optical Sensing, Advanced Topics in Semiconductor Devices, Microwave. His primary research areas are Radiation hardness studies using proton, neutron, electron, gamma rays, X-rays, and UV lights; AlGaN semiconductor,…
Wendee Johns, CRA
Wendee Johns is the Program Manager of the Nuclear Security Science and Technology Consortium and UNLV's Radiochemistry Ph.D. program. Wendee holds a bachelor’s degree from Southern Methodist University and is a certified research administrator as designated by the Research Administrators Certification Council. She has over 10 years of experience managing grants, contracts, and business functions…
Woosoon Yim, Ph.D.
Professor, Mechanical Engineering
Woosoon Yim is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at UNLV. He received his MS (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) in mechanical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and B.S. (1981) in mechanical engineering from Hanyang University in South Korea. His research has been focused in the area of robotics, smart materials, and unmanned autonomous system development. His recent research…
Art Gelis, Ph.D.
Professor, Director of Radiochemistry Program
Art Gelis is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and is the Director of the Radiochemistry Program at UNLV. As the program director, he manages the daily operations of the Radiochemistry Laboratory Complex (RLC). Gelis has a strong background and extensive experience in radiochemical separation techniques (solvent extraction, ion exchange) and actinide (Np, Pu, Am)…
Mark Schlossman, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Illinois, Chicago
Mark Schlossman is a full professor in the Department of Physics at UIC. His research group investigates fundamental and applied aspects of water interfaces, with a recent emphasis on phenomena at the interfaces between water and organic fluids. X-ray scattering and other techniques are used to provide a physical description of molecular-level processes at water surfaces and…
Adam Hecht, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Nuclear Engineering, University of New Mexico
Adam Hecht focuses his research on radiation detection, including detector development, detector material development, detection algorithms and data mining, machine learning for radionuclide identification, and nuclear data - specially on highly correlated fission fragment yield data. Previous research experience was in heavy ion accelerator experiments for his Ph.D. at Yale University in…
Ganesh Balakrishnan, Ph.D.
Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of New Mexico
The primary research focus of Ganesh Balakrishnan for the past decade has been the growth and characterization of highly mismatched III-Sb compound semiconductors on GaAs and Silicon substrates. The specific contribution made by Balakrishnan to this area of research is the novel use of interfacial misfit dislocation arrays in enabling low defect-density, bufferless, monolithic integration of III-…
