Neven Y Ali

Neven Y Ali serves as a Senior Lecturer III in the Department of Nuclear Engineering at the University of New Mexico, where she has held a faculty position since 2017 after transitioning from a postdoctoral fellowship at Missouri University of Science and Technology.

Her academic credentials include:

• Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
• M.S. in Nuclear Engineering, Missouri University of Science and Technology
• M.S. in Computer Information Systems, Arab Academy for Banking and Financial Sciences

Dr. Ali's research program centers on thermal-hydraulics for fourth-generation nuclear reactors, light water reactors (LWR), small modular reactors (SMR), and advanced nuclear fuel manufacturing processes. She pioneered the application of non-invasive radioisotope-based measurement techniques—including Gamma Ray Computed Tomography and Radioactive Particle Tracking—to optimize gas-solid spouted bed systems for TRISO nuclear fuel particle coating, directly addressing commercialization bottlenecks in next-generation reactor technology. Her work bridges fundamental hydrodynamics with practical nuclear fuel fabrication challenges.

Her teaching portfolio includes NE 323L Radiation Detection Measurement, reflecting her expertise in nuclear instrumentation and measurement methodologies.