Research Interests: Nuclear Security and Detection, Electronic Materials, Non-Destructive Examination, Radiation Imaging; applied aspects of cargo monitoring, detector testing and characterization for gamma-ray spectroscopy, and development and analysis of techniques for environmental sampling and surveys related to on-site inspections.
Ph.D., 2017, University of California, Santa Barbara
Research Interests: Energy Materials, Advanced Materials Characterization, Electronic Materials, Ceramics, Machine Learning and AI; energy storage materials, functional and electronic materials, lithium-ion batteries, structure-property relationships, X-ray diffraction, pair distribution function analysis, local structure, amorphous and disordered materials
Lab Website: Butala Research Group
Ph. D., 2002, The Pennsylvania State University
Research Interests: Ceramics, Energy Materials, Advanced Materials Characterization, Electronic Materials, Machine Learning and AI, Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Nuclear Security and Detection, Materials Processing
Lab Website: Nino Research Group (NRG)