Rachel Slaybaugh
General Partner at Special Competitive Studies Project - SCSP
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRachel Slaybaugh is a General Partner at DCVC and a veteran of the climate and advanced nuclear innovation ecosystem with 14 years of experience translating deep technical research into funded, scalable ventures. She has led programs at ARPA‑E and Berkeley Lab that deployed more than $200M in targeted funding, founded the Nuclear Innovation Bootcamp, and ran Cyclotron Road to accelerate early-stage hard‑tech companies. As an academic and former associate professor at UC Berkeley she published extensively, mentored numerous PhD students, and developed high-performance computational methods for reactor design and shielding. Rachel blends technical rigor—from hands‑on Monte Carlo variance reduction work and NRC‑licensed reactor operation—to strategic venture selection and board governance across multiple energy startups. She is deeply committed to equity and practical policy, cofounding Good Energy Collective to shape people‑centered nuclear policies and serving on national advisory studies like the NAS reactor initiative and SCSP’s fusion scaling commission. Uniquely, she pairs open‑source technical documentation contributions (notably to the PyNE nuclear toolkit) with fund-level investing and program design that bridge lab science to commercial deployment.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, PhD, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBS, Nuclear Engineering, BS, Nuclear Engineering at Penn State University
Github Skills (6)
restructuredtext10
sphinx10
documentation10
technical-writing10
develop9
nucleo8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pyne/pyne
Feb 2014 - Apr 2015
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:61 commits, 16 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Rachel primarily contributed to the documentation of the PyNE project. Their commits focused on adding and updating the theory manual, including a template, index, and sections on various aspects of nuclear engineering theory. They also fixed typos and grammatical errors within the existing documentation and code comments, further improving the readability and accuracy of the project's documentation. In addition, the user updated the introductory tutorial.
pythonnuclear-engineeringpyneengineeringnuclear
rachelslaybaugh/NE24
Jan 2015 - Feb 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 36 PRs, 60 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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