After receiving his BS degree in engineering physics from Tsinghua University at Beijing, China in 1999, Dr. Ji went on to earn a MS in the area of nuclear technology and its application from the same institution in 2002. He then came to the U.S. to enter the Ph.D. program in Nuclear Engineering at the University of Michigan, earning his MS in 2004 and Ph.D. in 2007. During this period, Dr. Ji had participated in several DOE funded projects on the research, development and demonstration of Very-high Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors, one of the promising candidates for Gen IV designs. He had been a research specialist at General Atomics and Argonne National Laboratory in 2005, working on the advanced fuel cycle designs using deep-burn gas cooled reactors.
