Current Team Members

PhD Students

Faisal Rahman

Faisal Rahman, Ph.D. student. Faisal is developing new hardware, firmware, and software methods to multiplex radiation detectors for waveform digitization in high channel-density measurement systems. He has Bachelor of Science (2012) and Master of Science (2013) degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Dhaka. Faisal was also an instructor in the University of Dhaka Department of Nuclear Engineering before he joined the NCSU Nuclear Engineering Ph.D. program. Faisal submitted his PhD preliminary proposal in Summer 2023.

Madeline Lockhart

Madeline Lockhart, Ph.D. student. Madeline is working with a multi-university, multi-laboratory team to develop new neutron multiplicity counting methods to assay uranium-233 and -235 in mixed oxide nuclear fuel materials. She was awarded a Nuclear Nonproliferation and International Safeguards fellowship by the National Nuclear Security Administration in 2021. Madeline has a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Texas Tech University (2020). Madeline was elected to the American Nuclear Society (ANS) Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy Division (NNPD) Executive Committee (EC) in April 2023; she is distinguished by being one of few graduate students ever elected to the NNPD EC.

Arel D’Agostino

Arel D’Agostino, Ph.D. student. Arel is working with Los Alamos National Laboratory to develop new methods to analyze critical and subcritical measurements of special nuclear material using fast organic scintillators. He has dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Mathematics from NCSU in 2022. Arel passed his PhD qualifying exam (QE) in Summer 2023.

Ryan Charrette

Ryan Charrette, Ph.D. student. Ryan joined RADIANS as a new Ph.D. student starting Fall 2023. Ryan will be working with Los Alamos National Laboratory to analyze critical and subcritical measurements of special nuclear material. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from NCSU in Spring 2023.

James Krec and friends

James Krec, Ph.D. student. James joined RADIANS as a new Ph.D. student starting Fall 2023. He will be working with Oak Ridge National Laboratory on forensic analysis of post-detonation nuclear debris as a member of the NNSA academic Consortium for Nuclear Forensics. James earned his Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering from NCSU in Spring 2023.

Faculty Adviser

John Mattingly

John Mattingly, Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University Faculty Scholar. Prof. Mattingly leads the RADIANS research team.  You can find Prof. Mattingly’s bio here.