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Sam is a graduate student in the Advanced Reactors and Fuel Cycles group at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is pursuing a PhD in Nuclear Engineering and graduate concentrations in Computational Science and Engineering (CSE), Energy and Sustainability Engineering(EaSE) and science communication . His current research focuses on reactor physics, machine learning, and energy economics.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from UIUC with a concentration in Complex Systems.
He is also the proud owner of two Associates Degrees from the College of Lake County: An Associate of Science (Physics concentration) and an Associate of Arts (Humanities).
His favorite fiction books are (as of 7/2020):
- Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
- The Three Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemison
His favorite non-fiction books are (as of 7/2020):
- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
- Scale by Geoffrey West
- The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
- Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen