- My name is Nathan Boyle. I'm a current IC community postdoctoral fellow at Purdue University. I got my degree from Purdue University in 2020 in nuclear engineering, and I'm currently working on trying to integrate machine learning to track and predict plume dispersion after a post detonation event. The most interesting part of my experience would be learning more about machine learning, learning more about a field that I had really no experience in starting. But as I started, I got more interested in it and learned more about it and saw the power of how great it can be and what we can do with it. And it's really interesting to see how far I've come. As an ORISE participant, The most valuable lesson I've learned was being able to understand that when first starting out, it may be difficult to know how to approach a problem but this opportunity gave me the ability to kind of take a step back and consider how to approach new subjects and new ideas. And that's really interesting for me. The advice that I would give future ORISE interns or fellows is to take advantage of your mentors. I've had a great mentor so far, David Stout and he's been with me along the entire process. We've been talking about our ideas and how to further progress. He's been absolutely excellent so being able to take advantage of him has been something that I'm very happy with and I think other interns and participants should do the same. The most influential people in my life, I would say would have to be my grandparents. They were very, very great with helping out in the community and basically gave me that passion as well to kind of go out and volunteer and help in the community. And they essentially led me on my track to wanting to be an educator and a mentor by just going out and doing the things they did.