Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
Baciak Lab
Led by James Baciak · Materials Science and Engineering
What we study
The Baciak Lab studies nuclear security and detection, focusing on gamma-ray spectroscopy and environmental sampling. They develop techniques for cargo monitoring and on-site inspections.
What working here is like
- Building & testing
- Coding helps
- Papers
- 4
Recent papers, explained
- Microsample identification in post-detonation samples with advanced digital autoradiography systems
2026 · Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry
- Advances in Autoradiography Systems for Nuclear Forensic Analysis
2026 · Nuclear Science and Engineering
Improves autoradiography systems to better locate radioactive materials in samples.
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- Material Identification Through Single-Sided Imaging of Explosive Threats at Various Distances with Differing Beam Strengths
2026 · Nuclear Science and Engineering
Tests if backscatter X-ray imaging can identify explosive materials without dual-energy scans.
- A generalist biomedical vision-language model via multi-CLIP knowledge distillation
2026 · Nature Communications
Builds a biomedical AI model by combining knowledge from nine medical image-text models.
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How to reach out
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