We are excited to celebrate Talia Thomas, whose impact on our community runs deep. Talia has spent years strengthening the student experience — organizing panels, pushing for student advocacy, and serving the community through student organizations with quiet consistency and real care. And of course, many of you remember her leadership as our most recent […]

Evan is 5th year PhD candidate in the Sustainable Thermal Systems Lab led by Dr. Srinivas Garimella. Research: Nuclear thermal hydraulics for the development of molten salt cooled reactors. Focus on experimentally measuring the heat transfer and pressure drop in the core of the Advanced High Temperature Reactor. 

Rakesh Shankar is a Graduate Research Assistant in Dr. Cyrus K. Aidun’s lab at Georgia Tech, collaborating with Dr. Prasoon Suchandra on ML approaches for somatic embryogenesis. The team is developing an algorithm to classify viable embryos with precision and scalability. Rakesh also has experience as an Entrepreneurship Assistant at Georgia Tech, where he conducted […]

Congratulations, Mackenzie Duce, for getting selected as the MEGA Student of the Month for 2025. Mackenzie is a PhD Candidate in Dr. Anna Erickson’s Laboratory for Advanced Nuclear Nonproliferation and Safety. Her research is centered on advancing radiation detection technologies to support national nuclear security via novel materials development and ML-enabled data analysis methods. Mackenzie […]