Alex was a postdoctoral researcher with ARFC. He is dedicated to a reasonable marriage between openness and nuclear energy research. Upon completion at ARFC, he joined INL as a staff scientist.

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. After graduation, he joined Argonne National Laboratory as a staff scientist.

Roberto was a Masters Student interested in mutiphysics simulations of advanced fission reactors. After his MS, he completed his PhD in another NPRE research group and joined Kairos Power.

Ansh was a graduate student interested in mutiphysics simulations of advanced fission reactors. After his MS, he joined a different research group in NPRE.

Amanda was a PhD student working on fuel cycle modeling. After she received her PhD in 2023, she joined Argonne National Laboratory.

Lu was 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. After their time in ARFC, they became a Mathematics instructor with Mathnasium.

Nataly was 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. After graduation, she joined the University of Michigan to pursue a PhD in Nuclear Engineering.

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

Gavin Ridley was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC. After working with ARFC, he continued his studies as an undergraduate at UTK looking to help molten salt reactors come to fruition through HPC.

Snehal Chandan was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC while she was an undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay.

Aditya Bhosale was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC while he was an undergraduate studying Aerospace Engineering at IIT Bombay, interested in HPC.

Katie was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC. After graduating, she pursued her PhD at the University of Wisconsin Madison

Eric Riewski was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC. He later attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin - Madiscon.

Yukun Tan was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC while she pursued her undergraduate degree in CS at the University of Illinois.

Gyutae Park was an Undergraduate Student at UIUC interested in fuel cycle simulations. After graduating, he returned to complete his national service with the Republic of Korea.

Daniel Chiu was an Undergraduate Student in UIUC, interested in fuel cycle simulations.

Adam received his undergraduate degree in 2019 and accepted a job at Epic Systems in Madison, WI

Brad was an undergraduate researcher interested in fuel cycle analysis and repository simulation. After graduation, he joined Enercon as a Mechanical Engineer.

Akanksha was an undergraduate researcher in ARFC interested in nuclear physics computation, nuclear fuel cycles, and cybersecurity. She completed her BS in Mathematics and Computer Science.

Jin Whan Bae received his MS in 2018 and joined ORNL as a staff scientist.

Tyler was an undergraduate researcher interested in nuclear reactor physics computation. Upon graduation, he joined Purdue University to pursue his PhD.

Matthew was an undergraduate research with ARFC, interested in nuclear physics computation and data science. Upon graduation, he joined SAIC.

Julia was an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois who is eager to gain technical experience in the nuclear engineering field.

Huan Yan is a PhD candidate working on advanced characterization of irradiated structural materials.

Mitchell is a nuclear engineering undergraduate interested in spent fuel management.

Sonata is a graduate student interested in fuel cycle simulations and fusion edge plasmas.

Anthony is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois interested in computational nuclear physics.

Maanu is a computer science undergraduate student interested in computer systems and scientific computing.

Eleonora was a graduate student from Warsaw University of Technology from Poland who visited us for one semester before returning.

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 received his MS degree in 2019 and joined the ORNL Safeguards and Security Technology group upon graduation.

Nathan is an undergraduate student in nuclear engineering at UIUC.

Matt worked as an undergraduate researcher with ARFC and joined Exelon upon graduation.

Kip was an undergraduate student in the NPRE department at UIUC, he's currently pursuing his master’s degree in nuclear engineering.

Gavin was an undergraduate student in the NPRE department at UIUC interested in microreactors and other advanced reactor designs.

David Atwater was a Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate interested in working on computational nuclear engineering.

Amber was an Undergraduate in NPRE interested in microreactors and other advanced reactor designs.

Anna was an NPRE undergraduate working on advanced reactor deployment efforts and video production for graduate reactor theory curriculum.

Mehmet worked with ARFC doing research on numerical simulations, Monte Carlo method, optimization, advanced nuclear reactor designs, in-core fuel management and uncertainty quantification in nuclear engineering.

Gwendolyn Chee graduated from NPRE with her PhD in 2022. After graduation, she joined Meta as a Machine Learning Software Engineer.

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

Riley was an undergraduate in NPRE at UIUC. He is interested in the interactions between society, policy, and reactor technologies and, upon graduating, joined the University of Michigan to pursue his PhD.

Dr. Munk served as acting the director of the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles group at Illinois. In 2024 she became an Assistant Professor at Oregon State University. She remains a core collaborator with the ARFC team.

Sun Myung Park was a PhD student in the ARFC group. Upon receiving his PhD, he joined the University of Texas at Austin as a Postdoctoral scholar.

Nathan started as an undergraduate research assistant and became a graduate student in ARFC, interested in the nuclear fuel cycle, energy system modeling, and machine learning. Upon graduating with his MS in 2025, he joined ORNL.

Bella was an undergraduate research assistant in NPRE. Upon graduating in 2025, she joined Constellation Energy at the Clinton Nuclear Power Plant.

Ceser was an undergraduate in NPRE at UIUC. Upon graduation in 2025 he joined Colorado School of Mines to pursue a PhD in Advanced Energy Systems.

Nathan was an undergraduate in NPRE conducting computational reactor physics modeling and simulation. Upon graduation, he joined Oregon State University to pursue a PhD in Nuclear Engineering.