Kathryn "Katy" D. Huff
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| Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Kathryn "Katy" D. Huff Ph.D. | |
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| 🏳️ Nationality | USA |
| 🎓 Alma mater | University of Wisconsin–Madison University of Chicago |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Cyclus Effective Computation in Physics The Hacker Within |
Kathryn "Katy" D. Huff was appointed as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the United States Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy on May 10, 2021, taking a leave of absence from her position as a professor of nuclear engineering in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Huff is the Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Energy.
Huff co-authored "Effective Computation in Physics: Field Guide to Research with Python" with Anthony Scopatz.
Huff helped to found The Hacker Within at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and then encouraged the formation of similar groups while at University of California-Berkeley and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Through her work with The Hacker Within, she became involved in Software Carpentry and was elected to serve on its first steering committee.
Education[edit]
Huff obtained a Bachelor of Arts in physics at the University of Chicago in 2008 and a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2013. She held a post-doctoral appointment at the University of California-Berkeley from 2013 through 2016, including two years as one of the first Data Science Fellows in the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. She began as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2016.
Research Interests[edit]
Huff leads the Advanced Reactor and Fuel Cycle (ARFC) group at the in the Department of Nuclear, Plasma and Radiological Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, designing and conducting simulations to understand and improve the safety and sustainability of nuclear energy. With a background in various aspects of modeling and simulation for nuclear energy systems, Huff and her team study problems that range from the dynamics of individual reactor systems over the time scales of relevant feedback mechanisms, to the interaction among fleets of facilities over decades time scales.
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