Postdoc
Yuzhi Li
Postdoc
Yuzhi joined the plasma physics and fusion research group in the Nuclear Engineering Program at the University of Florida in the Summer of 2025. He received his PhD in aerospace engineering at Virginia Tech. While at UF he has focused on modeling the heat and particle exhaust and plasma-material interactions in magnetized fusion plasma.
Ph.D. Students
Jonathan Arnaud
Graduate Research Assistant
Jonathan joined the plasma physics and fusion research group in the Nuclear Engineering Program at the University of Florida in the Fall of 2021. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Florida, receiving a Bachelors degree in Nuclear Engineering. While at UF he has focused on the computational description of runaway electrons in tokamak plasmas.
Ethan Webb
Graduate Research Assistant
Ethan joined the plasma physics and fusion research group in the Nuclear Engineering Program at the University of Florida in the Fall of 2022. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, receiving a Bachelors degree in Nuclear Engineering. While at UF he has focused on applying physics-informed neural networks to the description of low temperature plasmas.
Tyler Mark
Graduate Research Assistant
Tyler joined the plasma physics and fusion research group in the Nuclear Engineering Program at the University of Florida in the Fall of 2023. He completed his undergraduate work at the University of Florida, receiving a Bachelors degree in Nuclear Engineering and Physics. While at UF he has focused on applying physics-constrained machine learning methods to the description of relativistic electron formation in tokamak plasmas.
Shohanul Islam
Graduate Research Assistant
Shohan joined the plasma physics and fusion research group in the Nuclear Engineering Program at the University of Florida in the Fall of 2025. He completed his Bachelor and Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the University Dhaka. He also holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of the People. While at UF he has focused on identifying non-perturbative closures to fluid equations.