Dan Kotlyar
Associate Professor
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Kotlyar is an Associate Professor and reactor design specialist with nine years of academic and research experience developing advanced reactor physics tools and low-cost nuclear energy systems. He leads the Computational Reactor Engineering Laboratory (CoRE) at Georgia Tech, focusing on coupled Monte Carlo–depletion–thermal-hydraulics methods to bridge theoretical reactor physics with practical reactor and fuel-cycle design. His work spans high-conversion Th-233U concepts, proliferation-aware fuel cycles, and system designs for both terrestrial and special-purpose applications. Known for integrating state-of-the-art numerical algorithms into core design and safety-margin assessments, he brings hands-on software development experience from projects like the BGCore analysis package. Based in Atlanta, he combines rigorous PhD-level research with pragmatic engineering aimed at improving resource utilization and minimizing waste footprints.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
English, Hebrew, Russian
Github Skills (18)
shift10
monte-carlo10
serpent10
forge9
parser9
parsing9
python8
nim-lang7
decay7
conda6
conda-forge5
stack-based5
snap2
data-collection2
ros2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CORE-GATECH-GROUP/xs-interface
Jan 2022 - Feb 2024
Homogenized cross section (XS) interface to link between codes that generate and those that use MG XS.
Contributions:2 releases, 155 PRs, 211 pushes in 2 years 1 month
cross-sectionnim-langlinkstack-basedlattice-codes
DanKotlyar/markdown-portfolio
Mar 2020 - Mar 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 7 branches in 1 day
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