Simon A. Lee
UCLA Computational Medicine
Simon A. Lee is a 3rd Year Ph.D. Student at UCLA working in the Computational Medicine Department with Jeffrey Chiang. His primary work revolves around developing methods and evaluations that operate on health data. Some of his current/past affiliations and collaborations have included Samsung Research as a Health AI Scholar, Celsius Therapeutics as a Data Science Researcher, Optum Labs and was a former student at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. His main research interests are listed in the followng:
- Building and Reproducing Robust Foundation Models for Health Data
- Designing Evaluations and Benchmarks for AI Systems
- Challenging Fallacies and Malpractices in Artificial Intelligence
Outside of research, he likes to socialize, travel, and experience brand new things. Please do reach out if you have any inquiries regarding both personal and social life at simonlee711 [at] g [dot] ucla [dot] edu.
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news
| Jun 04, 2025 | Simon’s first journal paper and project MEME gets accepted into npj Digital Medicine |
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| Jun 03, 2025 | Simon completes his 2nd Year of PhD and moves to Mountain View to begin working at Samsung Research. |
| Jun 03, 2025 | Ulzee, Bronson, and Simon recieve a Spotlight featured paper at ICML 2025 |
| Mar 13, 2025 | Simon will be joining Samsung Research this summer on the Digital Health Team advised by Sharanya Desai |
| Jan 03, 2025 | Helio’s Summer Project gets accepted into AI for Medicine and Healthcare AAAI Bridge Program and wins runner up best paper |
selected publications
- npj Digital Medicine
Clinical decision support using pseudo-notes from multiple streams of EHR Datanpj Digital Medicine, 2025 - NeurIPS 2025
How different is my deep learning model from yours?Under Review at NeurIPS, 2025 - ICML 2025 Spotlight
Raptor: Scalable Train-Free Embeddings for 3D Medical Volumes Leveraging Pretrained 2D Foundation ModelsIn Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2025
