Education

Sept 2024 – Present

Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering

Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR

Radiation Transport and Reactor Physics Research Group (RTRP)

Center for Advancing the Radiation Resilience of Electronics (CARRE)

Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron Transport (CEMeNT)

May 2024

M.S. in Nuclear Engineering

Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Center for Nuclear Security Science and Policy Initiatives (NSSPI)

June 2013

B.S. in Physics with Honors

Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

Nuclear Research and Application Center (NUBA)

Research Experience

Sept 2025 – Present

Graduate Research Assistant

Oregon State University, Center for Advancing the Radiation Resilience of Electronics

  • Implementing single-scattering electron transport capability in MC/DC
  • Designing and implementing V&V suite for electron transport module
June 2025 – Sept 2025

Graduate Project Assistant

Oregon State University, Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron Transport

  • Enabled CAD-based geometry input in MC/DC by integrating GEOUNED support
  • Developed PyEEDL, a Python tool for ENDF-6 formatted EEDL dataset conversion
Sept 2024 – June 2025

Graduate Research Assistant

Oregon State University, Center for Exascale Monte Carlo Neutron Transport

  • Implemented and verified analytical benchmarks in MC/DC (asymmetric supercritical transients, multigroup reactor-physics)
  • Configured AMD Omnitrace profiling tool on CEMeNT's AMD CPU/GPU systems
  • Developed Dynamic Mode Decomposition-based spectral analysis approach
  • Built PyMFEM/MFEM-based Boltzmann transport solver using iterative methods (GMRES, Block-Jacobi)
Jan 2023 – May 2024

Graduate Student

Texas A&M University

  • Nuclear Safeguards Feasibility Study for a Theoretical Molten Salt Reactor
  • Developed MCNP model and comprehensive neutronics analysis
  • Designed nuclear safeguards monitoring approach for SNM

Skills

Nuclear Engineering

MCNP6 OpenMC SCALE6 INCC GENIE InterSpec

Programming

Python C++ MATLAB Mathematica

HPC & Parallel Computing

OpenMP CUDA MPI Slurm Flux Omnitrace

Languages

Turkish (Native) English

Awards & Scholarships

Sept 2024

Provost's Distinguished Graduate Scholarship

Oregon State University

Jan 2022

Graduate Scholarship

Ministry of National Education of the Republic of Turkey

Mar 2013

1st Place Award

Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Poland

Ion Optics and Gamma-Ray Detection Experiment

Professional Memberships

2023 – Present American Nuclear Society (ANS) Student Member
2024 – Present World Institute for Nuclear Security (WINS) Student Member
2023 – 2024 Institute of Nuclear Materials Management (INMM) Student Member

Additional Education

Jun. 2021

A.A. in Justice

Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey

Jun. 2015

B.A. in Business Administration

Anadolu University, Eskişehir, Turkey

Professional Certifications

May 2017

Occupational Health and Safety Specialist

The Turkish Ministry of Labor and Social Security

Jan. 2016

Pedagogical Formation Certificate in Physics Teaching

Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

One-year teacher education and practicum program