Dr. Abdalla Abou Jaoude is a recognized expert in advanced reactor technology at Idaho National Lab (INL). He is the deputy national technical director of the DOE Systems Analysis & Integration (SA&I) campaign and the MARVEL testing & experiment interface. He graduated with a doctorate in Nuclear Engineering from Georgia Tech in 2017 and was selected as the INL Deboisblanc Distinguished Postdoctoral Associate in 2018. He obtained an M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London, in 2013. During his time at INL, Dr. Abou Jaoude served as an Advanced Reactor Research Integrator, where he led a broad research portfolio across seven Department of Energy (DOE) programs. His topic areas encompassed advanced modeling and simulation, molten salt technology, and nuclear technoeconomics. In the first area, Abdalla was the lead for the Virtual Test Bed (VTB) and the BlueCRAB initiative. On the Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) side, he was the confirmatory analysis technical lead for the Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment (MCRE). He also founded and managed a research group on a multiphysics simulation of MSRs and led the first-ever fueled chloride salt irradiation in history.