Dr. Elliott Biondo is an R&D staff member in the HPC Methods for Nuclear Applications Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He received a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin in 2016. His research involves the development of radiation transport methods for fission and fusion applications. Specific research areas include GPU computing, computational geometry, reactor physics, and Monte Carlo (MC) variance reduction. He is a developer of the Shift and Celeritas MC particle transport codes.