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Haruko Wainwright is an assistant professor in the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her Master’s degree in statistics and her PhD in nuclear engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining MIT, she was a staff scientist at the Earth and Environmental Sciences Area of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research focuses on environmental modeling and monitoring technologies, with a particular emphasis on nuclear waste and nuclear-related contamination. Wainwright's work highlights the importance of long-term environmental monitoring in ensuring public safety and combating misinformation at contaminated sites. Additionally, she is investigating the effects of climate change, which can cause extreme weather events that remobilize residual contaminants. Her research aims to develop a new paradigm in environmental monitoring by integrating state-of-the-art technologies, including situ sensors and machine learning, along with contaminant and radionuclide transport simulations. Wainwright is also developing methodologies for uncertainty quantification and conducting comparative analyses to quantify the environmental impacts of nuclear waste and advanced reactor waste.