MEMBERS

Email: cqh5778@psu.edu

Short Bio: Chase Hargrove is from Upland, California, a suburb of Los Angeles. Chase joined the RSSEL group in 2021 after completing his bachelor’s degree in chemical and materials engineering at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He transitioned to RDMAP in 2023.

Research Interests: Dispersion-strengthened tungsten (DS-W);  Plasma facing components; Plasma-material interactions; High-heat flux resistance; Electron microscopy

Email: xql5451@psu.edu

Short Bio: Xingyu Liu joined Penn State in 2021 as a graduate research assistant in Xing Wang’s group. He achieved his B. Eng. from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Science and Technology Beijing in 2020.

Research Interests: Defect sink interaction; High entropy alloys; Transmission electron microscopy

Email: aio5165@psu.edu

Short Bio: Aiden Ochoa is a first-year Ph.D. student at Penn State majoring in nuclear engineering. He is currently a research assistant involved with the automatic segmentation of microscopic images of nuclear materials using state-of-the-art deep learning models. In his free time, he enjoys traveling and running.

Research Interest: Computational analysis; Health physics

Co-advised by Dr. Jean Paul Allain

Email: ahs5438@psu.edu

Short Bio:

Ashrakat Saefan joined Penn State in 2021 as a Research Assistant in RDMAP Lab and RSSEL Group. She got her Bachelor of Engineering from the Nuclear and Radiation Engineering Department at Alexandria University, Egypt in 2020. 

Research Interests: Dispersion strengthened tungsten (DS-W) alloy, Micromechanical testing, Transmission electron microscopy

Email: xkx5062@psu.edu

Short Bio: Xinyuan joined Penn State in 2020 and works as a research assistant in the group. He got his Bachelor of Engineering from the Department of Nuclear Engineering of the University of Science and Technology of China in 2019. His research areas of interest are automated analysis of microscopy images based on machine learning/deep learning and simulation of radiation-induced segregation. He enjoys playing an ancient Chinese game called Go and reading books in his spare time.

Research Interest: Automated analysis of microscopy images; Machine Learning; Radiation-induced segregation

Email: szz5495@psu.edu

Short Bio: Shangxiong Zhang graduated from Hefei University of Technology and the University of Southern California. Joined Pennsylvania State University in 2024 as a graduate assistant in RDMAP Lab. In her spare time, she likes to draw, do handicrafts, and climb mountains.

Research Interest: Analysis of nanosized precipitates in steels; Tungsten alloys

Email: ktf5134@psu.edu

Short Bio: Kameron Forney is a first-year undergraduate student at The Pennsylvania State University who intends to major in Mechanical Engineering. Kameron’s research at RDMAP is supported by the NASA Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium 2024 Undergraduate Research Internship Program (WISER|MURE|FURP). She enjoys rock climbing, mathematics, physics, and listening to music. 

Research Interest: Fusion Materials, 3D Modeling