Ilon Joseph is the Deputy Associate Program Leader for the Fusion Energy Sciences Program Theory and Modeling Group at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). Ilon received his B.S. in Physics from Stanford University, his Ph.D. in Physics from Columbia University and worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the UCSD Center for Energy Research, stationed at the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at General Atomics, before joining LLNL in 2008. Ilon is an expert in magnetic confinement fusion including edge plasma physics, magnetic reconnection, and kinetic closure models. He has worked on controlling chaos in dynamical systems, understanding how resonant magnetic perturbations improve the performance of tokamak fusion reactors, developing efficient fluid closures that incorporate kinetic effects, and extending gyrokinetic theory to the largest possible electric field gradients. Recently, Ilon has developed an interest in understanding how quantum information science and quantum computing can be used to accelerate progress in fusion energy.