Parker Ralph Steenblik is a second year PhD student at Arizona State University. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in Physics and a Minor in Computer Science. His undergraduate research experience includes deriving thermophysical properties of molten salts from simulation and using Deep Learning to advance and more accurately predict these properties. Molten salts are used in nuclear reactors and now he does research on materials physics to make high power electronic devices that could be used in our power grid. He is specifically interested in the contacts and interfaces between cubic boron nitride and various metals and dielectrics.