Speaker Bio

Dr. Raymond Cao is a Professor and Program Director of the Nuclear Engineering Program at The Ohio State University (OSU). He also serves as the Director of OSU-Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. Dr. Cao received his B.S. degree in nuclear physics from Lanzhou University in 1994 and Ph.D. from the nuclear and radiological engineering program at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007. Dr. Cao did postdoctoral research at the Positron Emission Tomography Lab at Harvard Medical School and also at the Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at Maryland during 2007-2009. Dr. Cao‘s research interests focus on radiation detection, wide bandgap semiconductors radiation sensors for harsh environment, and the neutron imaging and neutron depth profiling for advanced materials characterization.  Dr. Cao has published over 170 journal articles and conference proceedings. Dr. Cao is the Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science and on the editorial board of Nuclear Science and Engineering.