Sam is an Associate Professor in Artificial Intelligence for Materials Design in the Dyson School of Design Engineering and leader of the "Tools for Learning, Design, and Research" (TLDR) group. His work is primarily focused on the application of AI to the design of materials for next generation energy storage technologies. In 2023 he spun-out a company, Polaron, along with two of his former PhD students, Isaac Squires and Steve Kench (www.polaron.ai), where he is the Chief Scientist. In 2025, Polaron was awarded the £1M inaugeral Manchester Prize in "AI for the Public Good". He is currently the lecturer for the first year Engineering Mathematics course, as well as the departmental Admissions Tutor. Sam has built an online course on Multivariate Calculus for the Coursera specialisation Mathematics for Machine Learning. The specialisation has had >600,000 enrollments since it launched in 2018.