User:Katyhuff

Katy Huff
This is my user page.



Work
Katy (Kathryn Huff) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where she leads the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles Research Group. She served as a political appointee in the U.S. Department of Energy from May 2021 to May 2024, including as Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy. Previous to her time at DOE, she was an NPRE Assistant Professor and a Blue Waters Assistant Professor with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. She was previously a Postdoctoral Fellow in both the Nuclear Science and Security Consortium and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science at the University of California, Berkeley. She received her PhD in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2013 and her undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Chicago. Her current research focuses on modeling and simulation of advanced nuclear reactors and fuel cycles. She is an active member of the American Nuclear Society, a past chair of the Fuel Cycle and Waste Management Division, and recipient of both the Young Member Excellence and Mary Jane Oestmann Professional Women's Achievement awards. Through leadership within Software Carpentry, SciPy, the Hacker Within, and the Journal of Open Source Software she also advocates for best practices in open, reproducible scientific computing.

Play
Katy likes a lot of things.
 * vegetables
 * bicycles
 * coffee
 * public radio

Web Presence
Katy has a lot of things on the web.
 * katyhuff.github.io
 * arfc.github.io
 * hackerwithin.github.com/berkeley
 * twitter.com/katyhuff
 * inscight.org
 * linkedin.com/in/katyhuff/

Favorite Wikipedia Pages

 * Women_in_science
 * List_of_common_misconceptions
 * Unsolved_problems_in_physics
 * Unsolved_problems_in_math
 * E8_Theory
 * List_of_dimensionless_quantities

Wikipedia Pages I Want To Work On

 * Women_in_science
 * Nuclear_fuel_cycle