Katy is the director of the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles group at Illinois. She previously served as the Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy in the United States Department of Energy.

Madicken is acting the director of the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles group at Illinois.

Sun Myung Park is a PhD student embarking on his nuclear engineering journey.

Zoe is an NRC fellow with an interest in advanced reactors, fuel cycles, and nonproliferation.

Sam works on grid-scale energy system modeling and optimization methods with a focus on nuclear energy and its implications for energy justice.

Olek is a graduate student interested in passive safety and operations, microreactors, and decentralized power generation. He is still trying to figure out how to integrate these interests into a viable career.

Luke is a PhD student interested in advanced reactor modeling and simulation, particularly Molten Salt Reactors.

Nathan is a graduate student interested in the nuclear fuel cycle, energy system modeling, and machine learning.

Ceser is an undergraduate in NPRE at UIUC. He is interested in the usage of simulations for reactor cores.

Nathan is an undergraduate in NPRE at UIUC, interested in fission reactor fuel modeling and simulation.

Riley is an undergraduate in NPRE at UIUC. He is interested in the interactions between society, policy, and reactor technologies

Eli is an undergraduate in NPRE interested in modeling nuclear energy systems.

Rhys is an undergraduate in NPRE. He is interested in understanding the global fuel cycle.

Owen is an NPRE undergraduate at UIUC interested in modeling and simulation of nuclear power systems, especially Molten Salt Reactors

Bella is an undergraduate in NPRE. She is interested in spent fuel management practices, such as fuel reprocessing, as well as in simulating the nuclear fuel cycle.

Matthew Disimone is an undergraduate in NPRE and is interested in modeling neutron transport in advanced reactors.

Ideal ARFC group members seek to advance nuclear energy challenges through advanced computing, physics-informed modeling, and sophisticated simulation