Sam del Forno joined Splash as a Junior Developer in 2017. Before moving to NY, they held a postdoctoral researcher position at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. From 2012 to 2015, they were a postdoctoral associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA. Sam received their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA, in 2009 and 2012, respectively. Prior to their graduate studies, they received their B.S. degree in Software Development from the University of Tokyo, Japan.