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Sam is an Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Materials Design at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London, and leads the 'Tools Learning, Design, Research' (TLDR) group. His research primarily focuses on applying artificial intelligence to the design of materials for energy storage technologies. In 2023, he co-founded Polaron, a company that has since been awarded £1M in the inaugural Manchester Prize for 'AI Public Good'. Sam has been a lecturer for the Engineering Mathematics course and is the departmental Admissions Tutor. He developed an online course in Multivariate Calculus for a Coursera specialization in Mathematics for Machine Learning, which has over 600,000 enrollments since its launch in 2018. After obtaining his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering at Imperial in 2012, he completed his PhD in the Department of Materials, focusing on the characterization of solid oxide fuel cell materials. He has also worked as a postgraduate research associate in the Electrochemical Science and Engineering group, contributing to projects on energy storage and low carbon grids. His team has pioneered methods using Generative AI to optimize microstructures for advanced materials like battery electrodes and published several influential tools for analyzing 3D microstructural data.
Imperial College London, Dyson School of Design Engineering • London, United Kingdom
Teaching and research in machine learning and materials design.
Polaron • London, United Kingdom
Leading research and development in AI for materials.
Specialisms available in Materials for the Energy Transition or Theory and Simulation of Materials.