Aaron Huxford
Senior Engineer I at Kairos Power
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAaron Huxford is a Senior Engineer with a PhD in Nuclear Engineering and Scientific Computing and six years of experience applying advanced thermal-hydraulics, reactor safety, and CFD techniques to real-world reactor development. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has progressed through roles at Kairos Power from co-op to senior engineer and contributed to SAM code development and CFD–ML hybrid modeling at Argonne National Laboratory. His work blends high-fidelity LES data, RANS model development in OpenFOAM, and machine learning-informed turbulence closures—bringing research-grade simulation methods into engineering practice. Known for teaching graduate CFD and translating complex simulations into actionable design and safety insights, he combines deep domain expertise with practical delivery in advanced reactor systems.
5 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences at University of MichiganBachelor of Science (B.S.), Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Nuclear Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (17)
high-resolution10
cosmology10
modeling-tool10
simulations10
fusion10
sbml10
hpc-applications10
mpi9
snl-applications9
modelica9
amr9
reactor9
hydrodynamics9
python8
multiphysics8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ahuxford/NekML
Jun 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:34 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
ahuxford/cardinal
Dec 2021 - Aug 2023
High-Resolution Nuclear Reactor Multiphysics
Contributions:97 pushes, 29 branches in 1 year 8 months
pythonmultiphysicsreactorresolutionnuclear-reactor
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