Paul Wilson
Chair, Department Of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolPaul Wilson is a Grainger Professor and current Chair of Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison with 18 years of academic leadership and deep expertise in computational nuclear engineering. He develops production-grade software for fission, fusion, and accelerator systems—specializing in Monte Carlo radiation transport and policy-driven fuel-cycle simulation frameworks such as Cyclus—and is an active backend and test contributor to PyNE, a widely used nuclear engineering toolkit. His work blends rigorous research, open-source engineering, and departmental leadership, having founded the Computational Nuclear Engineering Research Group and directed campus advanced computing infrastructure. Comfortable bridging theory, code, and policy, he focuses on sustainable energy system modeling and has a track record of turning complex nuclear physics into robust, reproducible software tools.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, PhD Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDr.-Ing. Nuclear Engineering, Dr.-Ing. Nuclear Engineering at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)B.A.Sc. Engineering Science, B.A.Sc. Engineering Science at University of Toronto
German, French, English
Github Skills (8)
file-handling10
nucleo10
python10
binary-files10
test-automation10
data-structure9
data-structures9
fortran9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
pyne/pyne
Sep 2011 - Dec 2022
PyNE: The Nuclear Engineering Toolkit
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 releases, 273 reviews, 483 commits in 11 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the development and testing of the `PyNE` nuclear engineering toolkit. Their work focused on adding features for generating and writing binary files using the `_BinaryReader` and `_FortranRecord` classes, including adding tests to the binaryreader.py test file. Furthermore, the user added a new class SurfSrc to handle Surface Source files and reading and writing. They updated the testing interface to binaryreader per discussion on pyne mailing list.
pythonnuclear-engineeringpyneengineeringnuclear
svalinn/fusion-material-db
Apr 2024 - May 2025
Contributions:23 reviews, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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