Ashish Avachat

Ashish Avachat is an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Nevada, Reno. Before joining UNR, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and then a research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh.

His research focuses on developing radiation-based computational imaging systems and noise-robust machine learning techniques to characterize objects and processes in their natural states, with a primary focus on nuclear fuels and materials. Central to his research is the mutualistic symbiosis between the development of innovative imaging and analysis techniques and the characterization of nuclear fuel and materials. The challenges posed by nuclear fuels drive new imaging methods, and advances made for other applications feed back to nuclear fuel characterization. In this way, his work aims to contribute to nuclear engineering and beyond.