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 Dr. 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 at simonlee711 [at] g [dot] ucla [dot] edu.
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news
| Nov 01, 2025 | Simon’s first project on Wearable Foundation Models at Samsung is publicly available on arxiv. |
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| Aug 01, 2025 | Simon will be serving as a program committee member and help facilitate reviews for AAAI 2026 in Singapore. |
| Jun 04, 2025 | Simon’s first journal paper and project MEME gets accepted into npj Digital Medicine |
| 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 |
selected publications
- ICLR 2026
HiMAE: Hierarchical Masked Autoencoders Discover Resolution-Specific Structure in Wearable Time SeriesUnder Review at ICLR 2026, 2025
