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 Google Research as a Student Researcher, 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
| Jan 29, 2026 | Simon will join Google Research in the future to work on Multimodality |
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| Jan 26, 2026 | HiMAE, Simon’s Samsung project gets accepted into the International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) out of 19,000 submissions |
| Nov 01, 2025 | Simon’s first project on Wearable Foundation Models at Samsung is publicly available on arxiv. |
| 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 |
selected publications
- ICLR 2026
HiMAE: Hierarchical Masked Autoencoders Discover Resolution-Specific Structure in Wearable Time SeriesIn The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026
