Rui Hu
Department Manager, Safety And Engineering Analysis at Argonne National Laboratory
Lemont, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRui Hu is a nuclear engineering leader with 13 years at Argonne National Laboratory, now serving as Department Manager for Safety and Engineering Analysis, driving research and program development in reactor safety, multi-physics modeling, and system code engineering. He progressed from postdoc to principal engineer and group manager, blending hands-on development of advanced thermal-hydraulics tools with oversight of whole-plant transient safety analyses, uncertainty quantification, and software quality assurance. Trained at MIT and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he specializes in two-phase flow, heat transfer, and multi-scale simulation methods aimed at advancing safe, sustainable reactor technology. Known for mentoring technical teams and translating complex multi-physics research into practical analysis tools, he brings both deep technical rigor and program leadership to large-scale nuclear projects.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, M.S., Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBS, MS, Nuclear Engineering, Applied Mathematics, BS, MS, Nuclear Engineering, Applied Mathematics at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (6)
simulation10
parallel9
bed8
multiphysics8
amr8
reactor3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
idaholab/moose
Nov 2012 - Nov 2012
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Contributions:3 reviews, 1 commit, 11 comments in 1 day
multiphysicssimulationfemfinite-elementsobject-oriented
idaholab/virtual_test_bed
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
The National Reactor Innovation Center's (NRIC) Virtual Test Bed Repository
Contributions:4 comments in 8 months
centerbednationalnricreactor
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