ARFC - Key Persons


Adam Pichman

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Adam received his undergraduate degree in 2019 and accepted a job at Epic Systems in Madison, WI

Aditya Bhosale

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Aditya Bhosale was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC while he was an undergraduate studying Aerospace Engineering at IIT Bombay, interested in HPC.

Akanksha Panda

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Akanksha was an undergraduate reseearcher in ARFC interested in nuclear physics computation, nuclear fuel cycles, and cybersecurity.

Alex Lindsay

Job Titles:
  • Postdoctoral Researcher
bio 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.

Amanda Bachmann

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
bio 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.

Amber Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Amber was an Undergraduate in NPRE interested in microreactors and other advanced reactor designs.

Andrei Rykhlevskii

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
bio 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.

Anna Balla

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Anna was an NPRE undergraduate working on advanced reactor deployment efforts and video production for graduate reactor theory curriculum.

Anshuman Chaube

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Researcher

Anthony Ruzzo

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Anthony is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois interested in computational nuclear physics.

Brad Ellis

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Brad was an undergraduate researcher interested in fuel cycle analysis and repository simulation.

Ceser Zambrano

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Ceser is an undergraduate in NPRE at UIUC. He is interested in the usage of simulations for reactor cores.

Daniel Chiu

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Daniel Chiu was an Undergraduate Student in UIUC, interested in fuel cycle simulations.

David Atwater

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio David Atwater was a Nuclear Engineering Undergraduate interested in working on computational nuclear engineering.

Eleonora Skrzypek

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Scholar
bio Eleonora was a graduate student from Warsaw University of Technology from Poland who visited us for one semester before returning.

Elijah Capps

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant

Eric Riewski

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Eric Riewski was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC. He later attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin - Madiscon.

Gabriele Paciocco

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Gabriele is an NPRE undergraduate at UIUC. His interests in Math and Science motivate him to study the future of nuclear reactor devlopement.

Gavin Davis

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Gavin was an undergraduate student in the NPRE department at UIUC interested in microreactors and other advanced reactor designs.

Gavin Ridley

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio 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.

Greg Westphal

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Researcher
bio Greg received his MS degree in 2019 and joined the ORNL Safeguards and Security Technology group upon graduation.

Gwendolyn Chee

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
bio Gwendolyn Chee recieved her MS in Nuclear Engineering in 2018, and graduated from NPRE with her PhD in 2022.

Huan Yan

Job Titles:
  • Research Assistant
bio Huan Yan is a PhD candidate working on advanced characterization of irradiated structural materials.

Jin Whan Bae

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
bio Jin Whan Bae received his MS in 2018 and is now a staff member at ORNL

Julia Roessler

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Julia is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois who is eager to gain technical experience in the nuclear engineering field.

Katie Mummah

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Katie was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC. She is now pursuing her PhD at the University of Wisconsin Madson

Katy Huff

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Director of the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles Group at Illinois
bio 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.

Kip Kleimenhagen

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Kip was an undergraduate student in the NPRE department at UIUC, he's currently pursuing his master's degree in nuclear engineering.

Lu Kissinger

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
bio 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

Luke Seifert

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
bio Luke is a PhD student interested in advanced reactor modeling and simulation, particularly Molten Salt Reactors.

Maanu Grover

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Maanu is a computer science undergraduate student interested in computer systems and scientific computing.

Madicken Munk

Job Titles:
  • Research Scientist
bio Madicken is acting the director of the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles group at Illinois.

Mark Kamuda

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
bio 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.

Matt Kozak

Job Titles:
  • Technical Editor
bio Matt worked as an undergraduate researcher with ARFC and joined Exelon upon graduation.

Matthew Koziol

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Matthew was an undergraduate research with ARFC, interested in nuclear physics computation and data science.

Mitchell Whalen

Job Titles:
  • Technical Editor
bio Mitchell is a nuclear engineering undergraduate interested in spent fuel management.

Nataly Panczyk

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio 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.

Nathan Bartholomew

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Nathan is an undergraduate student in nuclear engineering at UIUC.

Nathan Glaser

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Nathan is an undergraduate in NPRE at UIUC, interested in fission reactor fuel modeling and simulation.

Nathan Ryan

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
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. bio Nathan is a graduate student interested in the nuclear fuel cycle, energy system modeling, and machine learning.

Oleksandr Yardas

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Owen Strong

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Owen is an NPRE undergraduate at UIUC interested in modeling and simulation of nuclear power systems, especially Molten Salt Reactors

Rhys MacMillan

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Rhys is an undergraduate in NPRE. He is interested in understanding the global fuel cycle.

Riley Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Riley is an undergraduate in NPRE at UIUC. He is interested in the interactions between society, policy, and reactor technologies

Roberto Fairhurst Agosta

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
bio Roberto is a Masters Student interested in mutiphysics simulations of advanced fission reactors.

Samuel Dotson

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant

Snehal Chandan

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Snehal Chandan was an undergraduate researcher with ARFC while she was an undergraduate student studying Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay.

Sonata Valaitis

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
bio Sonata is a graduate student interested in fuel cycle simulations and fusion edge plasmas.

Sun Myung Park

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
bio Sun Myung Park is a PhD student embarking on his nuclear engineering journey.

Tyler Kennelly

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Research Assistant
bio Tyler was an undergraduate research interested in nuclear reactor physics computation. He is now pursuing a graduate degree.

Yukun Tan

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

Zoe Richter

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Research Assistant
  • NRC Fellow
bio Zoe is an NRC fellow with an interest in advanced reactors, fuel cycles, and nonproliferation.