Shadi Ghrayeb

201-***-**** / acqdxl@r.postjobfree.com

EDUCATION

PENN STATE UNIVERSITY University Park, PA

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Nuclear Engineering, August 2013 Summa C um Laude

U.S. Department of Energy Fellow (NEUP)

Master of International Affairs (MIA) May 2012 University Park, PA

Masters of Science (MS), Nuclear Engineering, December 2008 University Park, PA

U.S. Department of Energy Fellow (AFCI) Summa Cum Laude

RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE Troy, NY

Bachelor of Science in Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics Summa Cum Laude

EXPERIENCE

The Data Incubator March – May 2015

Highly selective bootcamp program preparing PhDs for data science

Performed projects involving logistic regression, MapReduce, Spark,

Amazon Web Services, web scraping and machine learning

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards Washington, DC

Serve as a nuclear engineer in developing predictive models for existing reactor code 2013 - present

systems with latest mathematical simulations to accurately represent neutron

transport behavior

Enhance productivity by automating the extracting and manipulation of large data

sets into readable format for existing code systems using Python and Fortran

Serve as project manager for contracted research projects and serve as technical

advisor

Idaho Falls, ID

U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Nuclear Energy

Nov. 2012 – Sept. 2013

Provided oversight of the nation’s premier national nuclear energy laboratory by

overseeing detailed technical activities such as formal design reviews, technical

reviews, and prioritizations of R&D efforts and made recommendations

Served as the point of contact and program manager for assigned technical topics,

worth tens of millions of dollars, identified improvements, recommended new

initiatives and issued direction

Washington, DC

U.S. House of Representatives

Sept. – Nov. 2012

Served as a technical advisor for a prominent member of congress and former

presidential candidate. Prepared memos, press releases, briefings, etc.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Livermore, CA

Developed algorithms, simulations, modeling for national/international May-August ‘06, ‘07, ‘12

security and nonproliferation applications

Idaho Falls, ID

Idaho National Laboratory

May-August ‘09, ‘10, ‘11

Derived and verified mathematical models describing thermal neutron upscattering

International Atomic Energy Agency

Vienna, Austria

Coordinated international research programs and implemented new advance reactor May – July 2011

design concepts training for international proliferation inspectors

Upton, NY

Brookhaven National Laboratory Dec. 2006 – Jan. 2007

Developed and verified models to analyze and simulate thermal hydraulic behavior

for nuclear reactors

SKILLS

Programming experience: Python, SQL, FORTRAN, MATLAB, Hadoop, MapReduce

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