Chuang Ren
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering
Professor, Department of Physics
Senior Scientist, Laboratory for Laser Energetics
PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1998), MS and BS, Tsinghua University (China)
- Office Location
- 203A Hopeman
- Telephone
- (585) 978-9673
- Fax
- (585) 256-2509
Research Overview
My current research focuses on three distinct but related areas: inertial confinement fusion, plasma astrophysics, and high performance computing. Substantial collaboration has also been established with researchers and faculty at Laboratory for Laser Energetics and departments of mechanical engineering, physics and astronomy, electrical and computer engineering, and scientists at other institutions.
(Last updated January 2024)
Research Interests
- Inertial confinement fusion
- Plasma astrophysics
- High performance computing including AI/ML
Selected Publications
- S. H. Cao, M. J. Rosenberg, A. A. Solodov, H. Wen and C. Ren, “Pump depletion and the Raman gap in ignition-scale plasmas,” Phys. Rev. E 110, 045202 (2024)
- Y. Zhang, P. V. Heuer, J. R. Davies, D. B. Schaeffer, H. Wen, F. García-Rubio, C. Ren, “Kinetic study of shock formation and particle acceleration in laser-driven quasi-parallel magnetized collisionless shocks,” Phys. Plasmas 31, 082303 (2024)
- M.-K. Chen et al., “Inertial Confinement Fusion Forecasting via Large Language Models.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11098 (2024)
- S. H. Cao , D. Patel, A. Lees, C. Stoeck, M. J. Rosenberg, V. Gopalaswamy, H. Wen, H. Huang, A. Shvydky, R. Betti, and C. Ren, “Predicting hot electron generation in inertial confinement fusion with particle-in-cell simulations,” Phys. Rev. E 106, 055214 (2022)