Michael Hua
Senior Director of Science @ Helion
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Leading teams to put fusion power on the grid!
United States
Seattle
Renewables & Environment
Cross-functional Team Leadership, Research and Development (R&D), Nuclear Engineering, Engineering Management, Strategy, Public Speaking, Communication, Physics, Radiation Detectors, Scientific Experimentation, Monte Carlo Simulation, MCNP, Data Analysis, Engineering
Experience
Senior Director of Science
Helion
Director of Nuclear, Chemical, and Materials Engineering
Helion
Everett, Washington, United States
Nuclear Team Lead
Helion
Everett, Washington, United States
Fusion Scientist
Helion
Guest Scientist
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
Graduate Student Research Assistant
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Los Alamos, New Mexico, United States
- Advanced Nuclear Technology Group (NEN-2). - Theory and implementation of neutron noise techniques for subcritical and critical experiments. - Experiments performed at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center within the Device Assembly Facility at the Nevada National Security Site. - Collaborators: Jesson Hutchinson, and Dr. Geordie McKenzie.
Distinguished Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Consortium for Monitoring, Technology and Verification
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Graduate Student Research Fellow
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Undergraduate Research Fellow
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Detection for Nuclear Nonproliferation Group - Theory for neutron noise techniques (e.g., neutron multiplicity counting, Rossi-alpha, and Feynman-alpha), criticality kinematics, uncertainty quantification, statistics - Simulations using MCNP6, MCNPX-PoliMi, Monte Carlo codes - Measurements of highly enriched uranium, weapons-grade plutonium, and neptunium-237 at the National Criticality Experiments Research Center within the Device Assembly Facility at the Nevada National Security Site; a linear accelerator; sealed sources (e.g., PuBe, Cf-252, AmLi, and Cs-137) - Detectors: organic scintillators (trans-stilbene, EJ-301, plastics, organic glass, wavelength shifters), inorganic scintillators, high purity germanium (HPGe), and He-3 thermal neutron capture detectors. Readout includes photomultiplier tubes (PMTs), silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs), NIM and CAEN electronics. - Mentors/collaborators: Sara Pozzi, Shaun Clarke, Angela Di Fulvio, Tony Shin - Fellow of the Consortium for Verification Technology and Consortium for Monitoring, Technology and Verification
Researcher
National Science Foundation (NSF)
Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan - Matroid-representability, Pascal matrices, coding theory, and projective geometries. - Discovered and named the truncated and supplemented, upper-triangular Pascal matrix over a finite field with applied consequences in maximal-distance separable codes. - Mentor: Prof. Jeffery Lagarias. - Collaborators: Jeffrey Sun, Samuel Freedman, Daniel Capodilupo, Mingchao Yu
Education
University of Michigan
Nuclear Engineering
Thesis: Advances in Microscopic, Time-Correlated Neutron Noise Techniques - National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow - Consortium for Monitoring, Technology, and Verification Associate - Consortium for Verification Technology Graduate Fellow
University of Michigan
Nuclear Engineering
University of Michigan
Nuclear Engineering
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