Philip Britt
Principal Engineer, Nuclear Methods at TerraPower
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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Top SchoolPhilip Britt is a Principal Engineer specializing in nuclear methods with a decade of experience applying advanced Monte Carlo techniques and high-performance C++/Python code to reactor analysis and variance reduction. Based in Madison, Wisconsin, he progressed from hands-on reactor operations at Duke Energy to research-driven algorithm development at Oak Ridge and UW–Madison, and now leads methods development at TerraPower. His PhD work combined forward and adjoint Monte Carlo importance functions with MPI/OpenMP implementations, reflecting both theoretical depth and practical parallel-computing skill. Comfortable bridging lab-scale research and industry deployment, he brings rare experience translating variance-reduction research into production-grade simulation tools used for reactor design and analysis.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Nuclear Engineering at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Science - BS, Nuclear Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State University
Github Skills (12)
python8
science8
boost2
markdown2
continuous-integration2
modeling1
simulation1
mpi1
continuous-testing1
energy1
parametric1
fusion1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
psbritt/FRENSIE
Feb 2020 - Sep 2022
Framework for REsearch in Nuclear ScIence and Engineering
Contributions:2 releases, 145 pushes, 27 branches in 2 years 7 months
pythonengineeringsciencenuclear
psbritt/FRENSIE-tests
Jan 2021 - Sep 2021
Validation and Verification test for FRENSIE
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
validationtestingespressoverification
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