Summary
Matthew Halloran is a Nuclear Communication Specialist and founder with eight years of technical and outreach experience focused on advancing public-facing communication around advanced nuclear development. Trained as a nuclear engineer at Purdue, he has hands-on experience in irradiation experiments, materials analysis, and machine-learning pipelines from internships at Argonne and university research that bridge lab-scale data science with practical reactor materials testing. He built and optimized computer vision models for irradiation damage analysis, automated inference pipelines, and configured CUDA-enabled environments—skills he pairs with on-the-ground engineering work from geotechnical field sampling to lab spectroscopy. Based in Greater Indianapolis, he’s building AtomFact to centralize timely nuclear news and advocacy while helping to drive advanced reactor projects in Indiana and beyond. Notably, he blends technical rigor with public communication, aiming to close the long-standing gap between nuclear innovation and public understanding.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Core 40 Honors Summa Cum Laude, Core 40 Honors Summa Cum Laude at St. Theodore Guerin High School
Bachelor's degree, Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University