Dwaipayan Dasgupta is a research assistant professor with the University of Tennessee-Oak Ridge Innovation Institute’s Clean Manufacturing and Advanced Materials Convergent Research Initiative, with a focus on Nuclear Fusion. 

His research at UT-ORII focuses on assessing the performance degradation of plasma facing components and structural materials in the fusion environment, with particular emphasis on the permeation and retention of hydrogen isotopes in fusion materials. His group along with collaborators are working on developing high-fidelity models, supported by experimental data, to inform Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence capabilities that can be leveraged for fusion pilot plant design and optimization. 

Prior to joining UT-ORII in 2025, he was a research scientist and, before that, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. In 2022-2023, he served as an editor for a special focus issue of Materials Research Express on Plasma-Facing Materials in Nuclear Fusion Reactors.

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