Previous members of the ARFC research group, and where they are now.
Alex Lindsay
Postdoctoral Researcher
Alex was a postdoctoral researcher with ARFC. He is dedicated to a reasonable marriage between openness and nuclear energy research. He is now a staff scientist at INL.
Andrei Rykhlevskii
Graduate Research Assistant
Andrei was a Research Assistant with ARFC focusing on fuel depletion calculations for Molten Salt Reactors. He received M.Sc. in 2018 and Ph.D in 2020. He is now a staff scientist at Argonne National Laboratory.
Roberto Fairhurst Agosta
Graduate Research Assistant
Roberto is a Masters Student interested in mutiphysics simulations of advanced fission reactors.
Anshuman Chaube
Graduate Researcher
Ansh is a graduate student interested in mutiphysics simulations of advanced fission reactors.
Amanda Bachmann
Graduate Research Assistant
Amanda was a PhD student working on fuel cycle modeling. She received her PhD in 2023, and is now a postdoc at Argonne National Laboratory.
Lu Kissinger
Graduate Research Assistant
Lu is a Masters student using Monte Carlo codes to investigate the feasibility of Lunar Surface Fission Power. They also worked on reactor modeling projects with ARFC as an undergraduate and at Argonne post-bachelor's
Nataly Panczyk
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Nataly is an undergraduate in NPRE at UIUC. Her interests in nuclear power stem largely from her concern for the environment and her love of physics, math, and computer science.
Yi Nok Yeung (Nicholas)
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Nicholas is an undergraduate student currrently majoring in philosophy at UIUC. He is interested in learning more about simulation of reactor designs.
Gavin Ridley
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Gavin Ridley was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC. He is an undergraduate at UTK looking to help molten salt reactors come to fruition through HPC.
Snehal Chandan
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Snehal Chandan was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC while she was an undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay.
Aditya Bhosale
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Aditya Bhosale was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC while he was an undergraduate studying Aerospace Engineering at IIT Bombay, interested in HPC.
Katie Mummah
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Katie was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC. She is now pursuing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin Madson
Eric Riewski
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Eric Riewski was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC. He later attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin - Madiscon.
Yukun Tan
NCSA SPIN intern
Yukun Tan was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC while she pursued her undergraduate degree in CS at the University of Illinois.
Gyutae Park
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Gyutae Park was an Undergraduate Student at UIUC interested in fuel cycle simulations.
Daniel Chiu
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Daniel Chiu was an Undergraduate Student in UIUC, interested in fuel cycle simulations.
Adam Pichman
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Adam received his undergraduate degree in 2019 and accepted a job at Epic Systems in Madison, WI
Brad Ellis
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Brad was an undergraduate researcher interested in fuel cycle analysis and repository simulation.
Akanksha Panda
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Akanksha was an undergraduate reseearcher in ARFC interested in nuclear physics computation, nuclear fuel cycles, and cybersecurity.
Jin Whan Bae
Graduate Research Assistant
Jin Whan Bae received his MS in 2018 and is now a staff member at ORNL
Tyler Kennelly
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Tyler was an undergraduate research interested in nuclear reactor physics computation. He is now pursuing a graduate degree.
Matthew Koziol
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Matthew was an undergraduate research with ARFC, interested in nuclear physics computation and data science.
Julia Roessler
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Julia is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois who is eager to gain technical experience in the nuclear engineering field.
Huan Yan
Research Assistant
Huan Yan is a PhD candidate working on advanced characterization of irradiated structural materials.
Mitchell Whalen
Technical Editor
Mitchell is a nuclear engineering undergraduate interested in spent fuel management.
Sonata Valaitis
Graduate Research Assistant
Sonata is a graduate student interested in fuel cycle simulations and fusion edge plasmas.
Anthony Ruzzo
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Anthony is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois interested in computational nuclear physics.
Maanu Grover
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Maanu is a computer science undergraduate student interested in computer systems and scientific computing.
Eleonora Skrzypek
Visiting Scholar
Eleonora was a graduate student from Warsaw University of Technology from Poland who visited us for one semester before returning.
Mark Kamuda
Graduate Research Assistant
Mark Kamuda was the first PhD student to graduate from the ARFC group. Upon graduation, he joined Applied Research Analytics in North Carolina as a Data Scientist.
Greg Westphal
Graduate Researcher
Greg received his MS degree in 2019 and joined the ORNL Safeguards and Security Technology group upon graduation.
Nathan Bartholomew
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Nathan is an undergraduate student in nuclear engineering at UIUC.
Matt Kozak
Technical Editor
Matt worked as an undergraduate researcher with ARFC and joined Exelon upon graduation.
Kip Kleimenhagen
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Kip was an undergraduate student in the NPRE department at UIUC, he's currently pursuing his master’s degree in nuclear engineering.
Gavin Davis
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Gavin was an undergraduate student in the NPRE department at UIUC interested in microreactors and other advanced reactor designs.
David Atwater
Undergraduate Research Assistant
David Atwater was a Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate interested in working on computational nuclear engineering.
Amber Hunter
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Amber was an Undergraduate in NPRE interested in microreactors and other advanced reactor designs.
Anna Balla
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Anna was an NPRE undergraduate working on advanced reactor deployment efforts and video production for graduate reactor theory curriculum.
Mehmet Turkmen
Post-doctoral Researcher
Mehmet is doing researches on numerical simulations, Monte Carlo method, optimization, advanced nuclear reactor designs, in-core fuel management and uncertainty quantification in nuclear engineering.
Gwendolyn Chee
Graduate Research Assistant
Gwendolyn Chee recieved her MS in Nuclear Engineering in 2018, and graduated from NPRE with her PhD in 2022.
Gabriele Paciocco
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Gabriele is an NPRE undergraduate at UIUC. His interests in Math and Science motivate him to study the future of nuclear reactor devlopement.
A Return to NPRE
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Two ARFC Graduate Students Recognized with ANS Scholarships
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Andrei Rykhlevskii Recognized with ANS Scholarship
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Jin Whan Bae Recognized for Outstanding Undergraduate Research