Christopher Wong
Senior Engineer, Nuclear Fuel Methods at TerraPower
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChristopher Wong is a Senior Engineer specializing in nuclear fuel methods with seven years of experience applying advanced finite element and multiphysics simulation to real-world nuclear safety challenges. He has driven DOE-funded research and contributed backend code and test automation to the well-known open-source MOOSE framework, helping improve CSV reading, documentation, and testing infrastructure used by the community. At TerraPower and Idaho National Laboratory he has bridged structural dynamics, fuel performance, and risk assessment—developing new algorithms, implementing nonlinear structural elements, and validating soil-structure interaction models for transportation and storage scenarios. Comfortable across C/C++, Python, and high-performance MPI workflows, he pairs rigorous numerical methods with practical engineering standards (AISC, ASCE, ACI, AASHTO) to deliver auditable simulations. Beyond code, he writes proposals, technical reports, and tutorials, and has a knack for translating complex physics and math into usable tools for practitioners.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities, Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities at NHTI, Concord's Community CollegeThe University of UtahBachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering / Business Administration (minor), Bachelor of Science - BS, Civil Engineering / Business Administration (minor) at University of New Hampshire
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Github contributions (5)
idaholab/moose
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 145 commits, 37 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Christopher primarily contributed to the backend of the MOOSE framework, particularly by modifying the CSVReader component. Their work focused on ensuring the CSVReader component reads files correctly and prevents multiple executions of the same file, incorporating changes to the code and associated test files. They also made changes to support the creation of an outline option for the documentation. In addition to this they created some of the testing infrastructure used for the test application.
pythonfinite-element-analysisfemparallelmultiphysics
crswong888/moose
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Multiphysics Object Oriented Simulation Environment
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 390 pushes in 2 months
pythonmultiphysicssimulationsimulation-environmentobject-oriented
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