Rate My Professor Benoit Forget

Benoit Forget is the KEPCO Professor of Nuclear Engineering and Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering within the School of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Appointed department head effective April 1, 2023, succeeding Professor Anne White, he previously served as associate head since 2019, focusing on expanding computational science and engineering activities and leading the department's engagement with the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, including as co-chair of the Working Group on College Infrastructure. Since joining the MIT faculty in 2008, Forget has led the Computational Reactor Physics Group (CRPG), which developed the open-source codes OpenMC for Monte Carlo transport and OpenMOC for the method of characteristics, enabling high-fidelity reactor simulations on advanced computing platforms to optimize designs for safer, more efficient nuclear reactors. Prior to MIT, he worked as a nuclear engineer at the Idaho National Laboratory on reactor methods development and fuel cycle analysis. He holds a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology (2006), a Master of Engineering in Energy Engineering (2003), and a Bachelor of Engineering in Chemical Engineering (2001) from École Polytechnique de Montréal.