Dr. Raymond recently completed his PhD at MIT and is now a Postdoctoral Scholar at Stanford. He received his B.Eng in Mechanical Engineering (2011) and M.Eng in Computational Engineering (2014) from Monash University, Australia. Prior to joining MIT, Sam worked for a start-up company in Texas as an R&D engineer. He is currently in a dual Ph.D. program at MIT in both Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) and Civil Engineering. Sam’s previous research involved the simulation of materials using meshless methods including Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) and the Material Point Method (MPM). Using these techniques he has worked on manufacturing simulations, failure mechanics in metals, material science, and geomechanics. His current research revolves around the use of these two techniques in a variety of processes in the oil and gas industry to study the behaviour and interaction of solids and fluids.