Cliff Shang

Cliff Shang is currently program director for Weapons Infrastructure concurrently serving as director for the Office of Laboratory Infrastructure where he leads an integrated organization responsible for the planning, sustainment and modernization of LLNL’s capital infrastructure base.

Shang has 33 years at the Laboratory, with 30 years in the weapons program with specialty in quantum devices and numerical methods in nonlinear systems. His research focus has been simulation and design of space-charge dominated beam sources, numerical methods to solution of hyperbolic and parabolic systems, analysis and design of high-power components for fusion plasma heating and nuclear weapons enterprise modeling.

Shang has received five Defense Program Awards of Excellence (2004 Individual Award for Enterprise Modeling, 2005 for Nuclear Weapons Hydrotest Program, 2016 for Capabilities Based Infrastructure Program Team, 2017 for Tri-Lab Support of Nuclear Posture Review, 2018 for SSMP NSE Team), three NNSA Safety, Infrastructure and Operations Excellence Awards (2015 Mission Dependency Index, 2016 Deep Dive Process, 2020 Infrastructure Stewardship) and a 2017 Secretary’s Achievement Award.