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\begin{rSubsection}{DCVC}{Palo Alto, CA}{Partner}{Feb.\ 2023 -- present}
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\begin{rSubsection}{}{}{Principal}{Feb.\ 2022 -- Feb.\ 2023}
\item Source, select, fund, and support climate tech companies
\item Independent board member: Radiant Nuclear (04/2022 - present)
\item Board observer: Brimstone (02/2022 - present), Petra (08/2022 - 06/2024), and Verdigris (10/2023 - present)
\item Board member: Fervo Energy (08/2022 - present) and People and Culture Committee Chair, Fourth Power (10/2023 - present), Equilibrium Energy (12/2023 - present)
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\begin{rSubsection}{Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory}{Jan.\ 2021 -- Dec.\ 2021}{\href{https://cyclotronroad.lbl.gov/}{Cyclotron Road} Division Director}{Berkeley, CA}
\item Source and select $\sim$10 hard tech innovators per year for a 2-year fellowship program to turn their technology concept into a product with a positive societal impact ($\sim$\$6M/year)
\item Fellows embed at LBNL where we support their technical development and collaborations
\item Responsible for outcomes, safety, and reporting to Department of Energy and LBNL leadership
%\item Coordinate closely with \href{https://www.activate.org/}{Activate.org} leadership in co-running the program
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\begin{rSubsection}{University of California, Berkeley}{Berkeley, CA}{Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering}{July 2020 -- Dec.\ 2021}
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\begin{rSubsection}{}{}{Assistant Professor}{Jan.\ 2014 -- July 2020}
%\item Frequent invited speaker on innovation in the nuclear energy sector at clean tech, academic, government, NGO, and international fora
\item Founded the \href{https://www.nuclearinnovationbootcamp.org/}{Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp}, which brings diverse students from around the world to learn skills essential to innovation in nuclear energy
\item Developing numerical methods for neutral particle transport with an emphasis on supercomputing and advanced architectures; applications in reactor design, shielding, and nonproliferation
\item Also mentored PhDs in optimization, thermal fluids, and cryptography and anomaly detection
\item Published 25 journal articles, 44 refereed conference proceedings, 3 technical reports, 2 book chapters, 5 open source pieces of software, and 2 policy pieces
\item Graduated 9 PhD and 4 MS students; research adviser for 1 assistant project scientist, 1 postdoctoral scholar, 1 visiting scholar, and 15 undergraduate students
\item Won $>$\$2.5M as principal investigator (PI) and $>$\$26M as co-PI for numerical methods research
\item Created and support a course in which Berkeley students do hands on science experiments at under-served elementary schools in Oakland
%\item \href{http://citris-uc.org/decse-mission/}{Design Emphasis in Computational Science and Engineering} Affiliated Faculty member
%\item \href{http://ast.coe.berkeley.edu/}{Applied Science \& Technology} Faculty member
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\begin{rSubsection}{Advanced Research Projects Agency -- Energy}{Jan.\ 2017 -- Oct.\ 2020}{Program Director}{Washington, DC}
\item Created programs and selected teams developing technologies for advanced nuclear fission reactors, \$95M across 28 teams:
\href{https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=arpa-e-programs/meitner}{MEITNER}, the
Nuclear
\href{https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=news-item/arpa-e-announces-12-million-five-projects-nuclear-materials-science}{OPEN+
cohort},
\href{https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=news-item/arpa-e-innovating-through-unconventional-ideas}{LISE}, and \href{https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/programs/gemina}{GEMINA}
\item Provided deep technical and business guidance while managing: the nuclear teams; the \href{https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=arpa-e-programs/terra}{TERRA} and \href{https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=arpa-e-programs/roots}{ROOTS} Programs, supporting research for sensing and data analytics for above- and below-ground plant outcomes ($\sim$\$90M across 18 teams); and the \href{https://arpa-e.energy.gov/?q=arpa-e-programs/focus}{FOCUS} Program, supporting research for solar technologies that combine photovoltaic and concentrated solar power technologies ($\sim$\$12M across 4 teams)
\item Supported program creation in other energy areas through workshops, brainstorming, and feedback
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\begin{rSubsection}{Bettis Laboratory}{West Mifflin, PA}{Senior Engineer in the Shield Design and Development group}{Mar.\ 2012 -- Aug.\ 2014}
\item Implemented the Forward-Weighted Consistent Adjoint Driven Importance Sampling (FW-CADIS) method and developed new resonance factor for variance reduction in Monte Carlo
\item Qualified these methods and software for use in shield design to dramatically reduce time and improve accuracy in design calculations
\item Scientific Software Development Committee:\ leader in developing internal website for sharing software carpentry tools and resources
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\begin{rSubsection}{University of Wisconsin--Madison}{Madison, WI}{Research Assistant / Rickover Fellow}{Sept.\ 2006 -- Nov.\ 2011}
\item Dissertation: ``Acceleration Methods for Massively Parallel Deterministic Transport" where I added 3 new methods to Denovo, software from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, that are still used%: added parallelization in the energy domain, an advanced eigenvalue solver, and a new multigrid in energy preconditioner to Denovo, developed at Oak Ridge National Lab
%\item Investigated effects of uncertainty in gamma sources on Monte Carlo transport
\item Developed two Monte Carlo source sampling methods for arbitrarily shaped plasma sources%; the sources are generated directly from plasma physics data
%\item Wrote an efficient sampling method for secondary photon sources in the Monte Carlo CAD software library, Direct Accelerated Geometry Monte Carlo (DAGMC)
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%\begin{rSubsection}{Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory}{Schenectady, NY}{Rickover Fellow Practicum}{Summer 2009}
%\item Helped couple the Monte Carlo code MC21 to the deterministic code Jaguar via the interface code UNIK for the purpose of variance reduction
%\item Added weight window capability to MC21
%\item Investigated and recommended methods for creating weight window values
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%\begin{rSubsection}{Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe (KIT)}{Karlsruhe, Germany}{Visiting Researcher}{May 2008 -- Dec.\ 2008}
%\item Learned about the Rigorous 2 Step method for Monte Carlo geometry conversion while working in the Reactor Safety group
%\item Helped group incorporate the Direct Accelerated Geometry Monte Carlo (DAGMC) library into MCNP workflow
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%\begin{rSubsection}{Oak Ridge National Laboratory}{Oak Ridge, TN}{Summer Intern}{Summers 2005 \& 2006}
%\item Investigated use of the 3-D deterministic transport code TORT for radiation treatment planning (RTP) when using proper cross sections
%%\item Demonstrated that RTP is possible with TORT, but for limited cases
%\item Learned about electron transport and created electron cross sections with CEPXS
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\begin{rSubsection}{Penn State Breazeale Reactor}{University Park, PA}{Reactor Operator}{Aug.\ 2003 -- Apr.\ 2006}
\item NRC licensed Reactor Operator for TRIGA Mark III reactor
\item Analyzed core burn-up anomaly; calibrated gamma irradiation facilities
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