Andrei V Smirnov has an M.S. degree with honours in Physics from Lomonosov University in Moscow, Russia and a Ph.D. in Computational Fluid Dynamics from Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. From 1998 till 2008 he worked as an Assistant Professor at West Virginia University where he conducted research on multi-physics modeling and published over 80 technical papers. Between 2008 and 2014 he worked as an Advisory Engineer at Babcock & Wilcox Company on the development of a nuclear reactor. Between 2014 and 2016 he worked at Bechtel Corporation on modeling of radioactive waste treatment systems. Between 2016 and 2018 he was employed at FuelCell Energy in a position of a Senior Product Development Engineer. Currently, he works as a Senior Data Scientist at Booz Allen Hamilton. Owner of MulPhys and co-founder of H2GenTech. Holds an active Professional Engineering license, Linux Sysadmin license, Linux+ certificate, (E-Badge), and Cybersecurity Analyst (E-Badge).