2026 10 update

.github/workflows/test_build.yml

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ on:
  workflow_dispatch:
 
 jobs:
-
   build:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
 

_data/agencies.yml

@@ -20,4 +20,7 @@
   name: Advanced Research Projects Agency ‑ Energy (ARPA-E)
 - agency: pscw
   name: Public Service Commission of Wisconsin
-
+- agency: nsf
+  name: National Science Foundation
+- agency: fes-genesis
+  name: Fusion Energy Sciences GENESIS program

_data/collaborators.yml

@@ -100,3 +100,15 @@
   name: Eugene "Gene" Grecheck
   inst: Grecheck Consulting LLC 
   url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenegrecheck/
+- code: kg
+  name: Dr. Kuhika Gupta
+  inst: University of Oklahoma, Institute for Public Policy Research Analysis
+  url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kuhika-gupta-2043945
+- code: dbcs
+  name: Prof. David Bindel
+  inst: Cornell University, Department of Computer Science
+  url: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~bindel/
+- code: srm
+  name: Prof. Steve Marschner
+  inst: Cornell University, Department of Computer Science
+  url: https://www.cs.cornell.edu/%7Esrm/

_data/people.yml

@@ -22,10 +22,6 @@
     url: "keb"
     image: biegel.jpg
     role: "PhD Dissertator, Argonne National Laboratory Graduate Fellow"
-  - name: "Connor Moreno"
-    url: "cam"
-    role: "PhD Dissertator, GERS"
-    image: moreno.jpg
   - name: "Lewis Gross"
     url: "lg"
     role: "PhD Dissertator, US NRC Fellow"
@@ -69,18 +65,10 @@
 
 - group: 'Undergraduate Students'
   people:
-  - name: "Gerson A. Esquivel Garcia"
-    url: "gaeg"
-    role: "Undergraduate Intern"
-    image: Gerson.jpg 
   - name: "Hermione Celestain"
     url: HC
     Role: "Undergraduate Student"
     image: Hermione.jpg
-  - name: "Evan Pouliot"
-    url: "evpou"
-    role: "Undergraduate Researcher With SURE"
-    image: Evan_thebestihave.jpg
   - name: "Tanjimul Safi"
     url: "tanjimul"
     role: "Undergraduate Researcher"
@@ -162,6 +150,11 @@
     role: PhD
     employer: SHINE Technologies
     employer_url: https://shinefusion.com
+  - name: "Gerson A. Esquivel Garcia"
+    code: "gaeg"
+    role: "Undergraduate Intern"
+    employer: University of Wisconsin-Madison
+    employer_url: https://engineering.wisc.edu/neep
   - name: Matthew Gidden
     linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-gidden-11a6366/
     year: 2015
@@ -306,6 +299,13 @@
     role: Programmer
     employer:
     employer_url:
+  - name: "Connor Moreno"
+    linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/connor-moreno-721542126/
+    code: cam
+    year: 2026
+    role: PhD
+    employer: Type One Energy
+    employer_url: https://typeoneenergy.com/
   - name: Damien Moule
     linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damien-moule-41a69012a/
     year: 2011
@@ -377,6 +377,9 @@
     role: Undergraduate Intern
     employer:
     employer_url:
+  - name: Evan Pouliot
+    code: evpou
+    role: Undergraduate Intern
   - name: Michael Priaulx
     code: mp
     year: 2008
@@ -415,6 +418,8 @@
   - name: Josh Ruegsegger
     year: 2022
     role: MS
+    employer: Savannah River National Laboratory
+    employer_url: https://www.srnl.gov/
   - name: Ben Schmitt
     linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjamin-schmitt-79518677/
     year: 2006

_data/project-archive.yml

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
   cnerg_collaborators: [ kam ]
   other_collaborators:
   project_url: https://mtv.engin.umich.edu/
+  pubs: [mummah_set_2026]
 - short_code: eti
   area_code: nucsec
   title: Consortium for Enabling Technology and Innovation (ETI)
@@ -31,5 +32,31 @@
   cnerg_collaborators: ['js', 'sf', 'klyg']
   other_collaborators:
   abstract:
-  pubs: [ stomps_contrastive_2024 ]
+  pubs: [ stomps_snm_2023, stomps_contrastive_2024 ]
   project_url: https://eti.gatech.edu
+- short_code: codesign
+  area_code: econ
+  title: Integrating socially led co-design into consent-based siting of interim storage facilities
+  agency: neup
+  start_date: 2022-10-01
+  end_date: 2025-09-30
+  lead_pi: kg
+  cnerg_pi: pphw
+  cnerg_collaborators: 
+  other_collaborators: [db, eag]
+  abstract:
+  pubs: [ostad_rahimi_perceived_2026]
+  project_url: 
+- short_code: inlrafm
+  area_code: nsa
+  title: Neutron Activation Research For Reduced Activation Ferritic Martensitic Steels
+  agency: inlldrd
+  start_date: 2025-05-01
+  end_date: 2027-09-30
+  lead_pi: nw
+  cnerg_pi: pphw
+  cnerg_collaborators: [jtds, ew]
+  other_collaborators: cah
+  abstract:
+  pubs:
+  project_url:

_data/projects.yml

@@ -1,3 +1,39 @@
+- short_code: genesis-ph1
+  area_code: rtnam
+  title: Stellarator blanket optimization with differentiable Monte Carlo neutronics
+  agency: fes-genesis
+  start_date: 2026-09-01
+  end_date: 2027-06-30
+  lead_pi: pphw
+  other_collaborators: [pcs, dbcs, srm]
+  abstract: "Breeding blankets for fusion energy systems must balance multiple
+objectives: magnet shielding, energy conversion and tritium fuel breeding.
+This is challenging enough in any magnetic fusion energy system, but the
+complex three-dimensional geometry of stellarators compounds this complexity.
+The available space for breeding blanket components between the plasma and the
+magnets that generate that plasma shape varies in three dimensions, giving a
+high-dimensional design space for those blanket components. Naive approaches
+for machine-driven optimization require O(10E7) expensive Monte Carlo radiation
+transport simulations. Some reliance on surrogate models can reduce this to
+O(10E3) of these simulations. This proposal seeks to employ AI to reduce this
+to O(10) simulations, reducing the time to find an optimum stellarator blanket
+configuration from thousands of cpu-years to thousands of cpu-hours. This
+improvement will allow fusion energy developers to produce optimal blanket
+systems for new plasma configurations at a rate that allows for tighter
+coupled optimization of plasmas with blankets rather than as separate steps."
+- short_code: cardinal-pose
+  area_code: rtnam
+  title: Cardinal - An Open-Source Ecosystem for High-Fidelity Multiphysics for Energy Applications
+  agency: nsf
+  start_date: 2026-09-01
+  end_date: 2028-08-31
+  lead_pi: ajn
+  cnerg_pi: pphw
+  cnerg_collaborators: 
+  other_collaborators: [ 'pcs' ]
+  abstract: 
+  pubs: [ ]
+  project_url: https://cardinal.cels.anl.gov/
 - short_code: amrmc
   area_code: rtnam
   title: Unstructured Adaptive Mesh Algorithms for Monte Carlo Transport
@@ -6,7 +42,7 @@
   end_date: 2027-09-30
   lead_pi: ajn
   cnerg_pi: pphw
-  cnerg_collaborators: walid
+  cnerg_collaborators: [walid, evpou]
   other_collaborators: [ 'pcs', 'pkr', ks ]
   abstract: "Recent growth in computing now permits large-scale multiphysics modeling using Monte Carlo methods,
 considered state-of-the-art for particle transport. The Monte Carlo method is well-suited for
@@ -21,7 +57,7 @@ well-captured. Despite the remarkable success of AMR in other fields, there has
 AMR for Monte Carlo tally meshes, especially in the context of multiphysics or in combination with hand p-refinement. This proposal will develop the fundamental methods and techniques for
 unstructured mesh AMR with Monte Carlo tallies to enable a transformative leap forward in
 speed, accuracy, and robustness of Monte Carlo methods for advanced simulation."
-  pubs:
+  pubs: [sawatzky_adaptive_2027, sawatzky_adaptive_2025]
   project_url: https://github.com/neams-th-coe/cardinal_amr
 - short_code: hifistell
   area_code: rtnam
@@ -31,10 +67,10 @@ speed, accuracy, and robustness of Monte Carlo methods for advanced simulation."
   end_date: 2027-09-30
   lead_pi: ab
   cnerg_pi: pphw
-  cnerg_collaborators: cam
+  cnerg_collaborators: [cam, mgrove, ew, tanjimul]
   other_collaborators: crs
   abstract:
-  pubs: [moreno_parastell_2024]
+  pubs: [moreno_investigation_2026, moreno_parastell_2024]
   project_url: https://hifistell.plasma.princeton.edu/
 - short_code: frontend
   area_code: nfca
@@ -57,7 +93,7 @@ speed, accuracy, and robustness of Monte Carlo methods for advanced simulation."
   end_date: 2030-03-14
   lead_pi: ase
   cnerg_pi: pphw
-  cnerg_collaborators: ['sf']
+  cnerg_collaborators: [sf, HC]
   other_collaborators: bl
   abstract:
   pubs: [ stomps_contrastive_2024 ]
@@ -111,19 +147,6 @@ speed, accuracy, and robustness of Monte Carlo methods for advanced simulation."
   abstract:
   pubs:
   project_url:
-- short_code: inlrafm
-  area_code: nsa
-  title: Neutron Activation Research For Reduced Activation Ferritic Martensitic Steels
-  agency: inlldrd
-  start_date: 2025-05-01
-  end_date: 2027-09-30
-  lead_pi: nw
-  cnerg_pi: pphw
-  cnerg_collaborators: [jtds, ew]
-  other_collaborators: cah
-  abstract:
-  pubs:
-  project_url:
 - short_code: uw-fire
   area_code: nsa
   title: "FIRE Collaborative: Fusion Neutrons for Integrated Blanket Technology Development Through Advanced Testing and Design"

_layouts/project_list.html

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ <h2 id="{{ area.code }}">{{ area.title }}</h2>
                     <br><span class="font-italic">Lead PI: </span>
                     {% if lead_pi != None %}
                         {% if lead_pi.url != "" %}
-                            <a href="{{ lead_pi[0].url }}" target="_blank">{{ lead_pi.name }}</a> ({{ lead_pi.inst }})
+                            <a href="{{ lead_pi.url }}" target="_blank">{{ lead_pi.name }}</a> ({{ lead_pi.inst }})
                         {% else %}
                             {{ lead_pi.name }} ({{ lead_pi.inst }})
                         {% endif %}