Katy is the director of the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles group at Illinois and is currently on a leave of absence to serve in the 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.

Gwendolyn Chee is a Masters Student interested in fuel cycle simulations.

Ansh is a graduate student interested in mutiphysics simulations of advanced fission reactors.

Roberto is a Masters Student interested in mutiphysics simulations of advanced fission reactors.

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

Sam is currently working on machine learning applications for isotope identification and is interested in everything.

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.

Amanda is a PhD student interested in the nuclear fuel cycle and the best ways to implement nonproliferation safeguards.

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

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

Nathan is a graduate student interested in the simulation of new regimes in nuclear reactors, energy system modeling, and machine learning.

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.

Nicholas is an undergraduate student currrently majoring in philosophy at UIUC. He is interested in learning more about simulation of reactor designs.

Gabriele is an NPRE undergraduate at UIUC. His interests in Math and Science motivate him to study the future of nuclear reactor devlopement.

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