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Publications (24)

physics.optics2022

Automated Discovery and Optimization of 3D Topological Photonic Crystals

Samuel Kim, Thomas Christensen, Steven G. Johnson +1

Topological photonic crystals have received considerable attention for their ability to manipulate and guide light in unique ways. They are typically designed by hand based on care…

cs.CL2019

Toward estimating personal well-being using voice

Samuel Kim, Namhee Kwon, Henry O'Connell

Estimating personal well-being draws increasing attention particularly from healthcare and pharmaceutical industries. We propose an approach to estimate personal well-being in term…

physics.optics2025

Wide-Angle, Multiplexed Backscatter Communications Using a Dynamic Metasurface-Backed Luneburg Lens

Samuel Kim, Tim Sleasman, Avrami Rakovsky +2

Backscatter communications is attractive for its low power requirements due to the lack of actively radiating components; however, commonly used devices are typically limited in ra…

nucl-ex2023

Reactor Antineutrino Spectral "Bump": Cumulative Fission Yields of Irradiated U-235 and Pu-239 Measured by HPGe Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy

Samuel Kim, C. J. Martoff, Michael Dion +1

Recent measurements of the reactor antineutrino emission show that there exists a spectral excess (the "bump") in the 5-7 MeV region when compared to the Huber-Muller prediction ba…

cs.LG2022

Deep Learning for Bayesian Optimization of Scientific Problems with High-Dimensional Structure

Samuel Kim, Peter Y. Lu, Charlotte Loh +3

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular paradigm for global optimization of expensive black-box functions, but there are many domains where the function is not completely a black-b…

cs.LG2020

Integration of Neural Network-Based Symbolic Regression in Deep Learning for Scientific Discovery

Samuel Kim, Peter Y. Lu, Srijon Mukherjee +4

Symbolic regression is a powerful technique that can discover analytical equations that describe data, which can lead to explainable models and generalizability outside of the trai…

q-bio.QM2023

Predicting Development of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and its Risk Factor Analysis

Soojin Lee, Ingu Sean Lee, Samuel Kim

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is an irreversible airway obstruction with a high societal burden. Although smoking is known to be the biggest risk factor, additional…

cs.LG2021

Surrogate- and invariance-boosted contrastive learning for data-scarce applications in science

Charlotte Loh, Thomas Christensen, Rumen Dangovski +2

Deep learning techniques have been increasingly applied to the natural sciences, e.g., for property prediction and optimization or material discovery. A fundamental ingredient of s…

cs.HC2025

VisAnatomy: An SVG Chart Corpus with Fine-Grained Semantic Labels

Chen Chen, Hannah K. Bako, Peihong Yu +10

Chart corpora, which comprise data visualizations and their semantic labels, are crucial for advancing visualization research. However, the labels in most existing corpora are high…

cs.LG2024

Data augmentation method for modeling health records with applications to clopidogrel treatment failure detection

Sunwoong Choi, Samuel Kim

We present a novel data augmentation method to address the challenge of data scarcity in modeling longitudinal patterns in Electronic Health Records (EHR) of patients using natural…

cs.LG2023

Detection and prediction of clopidogrel treatment failures using longitudinal structured electronic health records

Samuel Kim, In Gu Sean Lee, Mijeong Irene Ban +1

We propose machine learning algorithms to automatically detect and predict clopidogrel treatment failure using longitudinal structured electronic health records (EHR). By drawing a…

cs.CL2025

Interpretable Depression Detection from Social Media Text Using LLM-Derived Embeddings

Samuel Kim, Oghenemaro Imieye, Yunting Yin

Accurate and interpretable detection of depressive language in social media can support early identification of mental health conditions and inform timely interventions. In this pa…

cs.LG2024

Leveraging Federated Learning for Automatic Detection of Clopidogrel Treatment Failures

Samuel Kim, Min Sang Kim

The effectiveness of clopidogrel, a widely used antiplatelet medication, varies significantly among individuals, necessitating the development of precise predictive models to optim…

cs.LG2023

Why Do Students Drop Out? University Dropout Prediction and Associated Factor Analysis Using Machine Learning Techniques

Sean Kim, Eliot Yoo, Samuel Kim

Graduation and dropout rates have always been a serious consideration for educational institutions and students. High dropout rates negatively impact both the lives of individual s…

cs.MA2024

Work Smarter Not Harder: Simple Imitation Learning with CS-PIBT Outperforms Large Scale Imitation Learning for MAPF

Rishi Veerapaneni, Arthur Jakobsson, Kevin Ren +3

Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) is the problem of effectively finding efficient collision-free paths for a group of agents in a shared workspace. The MAPF community has largely foc…

cs.LG2023

Deep Learning and Symbolic Regression for Discovering Parametric Equations

Michael Zhang, Samuel Kim, Peter Y. Lu +1

Symbolic regression is a machine learning technique that can learn the governing formulas of data and thus has the potential to transform scientific discovery. However, symbolic re…

cs.LG2025

Multimodal Foundation Models for Material Property Prediction and Discovery

Viggo Moro, Charlotte Loh, Rumen Dangovski +7

Artificial intelligence is transforming computational materials science, improving the prediction of material properties, and accelerating the discovery of novel materials. Recentl…

cs.LG2023

Automatic prediction of mortality in patients with mental illness using electronic health records

Sean Kim, Samuel Kim

Mental disorders impact the lives of millions of people globally, not only impeding their day-to-day lives but also markedly reducing life expectancy. This paper addresses the pers…

physics.comp-ph2020

Extracting Interpretable Physical Parameters from Spatiotemporal Systems using Unsupervised Learning

Peter Y. Lu, Samuel Kim, Marin Soljačić

Experimental data is often affected by uncontrolled variables that make analysis and interpretation difficult. For spatiotemporal systems, this problem is further exacerbated by th…

cs.LG2023

Predicting Students' Exam Scores Using Physiological Signals

Willie Kang, Sean Kim, Eliot Yoo +1

While acute stress has been shown to have both positive and negative effects on performance, not much is known about the impacts of stress on students grades during examinations. T…

cs.LG2023

OccamNet: A Fast Neural Model for Symbolic Regression at Scale

Owen Dugan, Rumen Dangovski, Allan Costa +4

Neural networks' expressiveness comes at the cost of complex, black-box models that often extrapolate poorly beyond the domain of the training dataset, conflicting with the goal of…

cs.LG2023

Multi-Site Clinical Federated Learning using Recursive and Attentive Models and NVFlare

Won Joon Yun, Samuel Kim, Joongheon Kim

The prodigious growth of digital health data has precipitated a mounting interest in harnessing machine learning methodologies, such as natural language processing (NLP), to scruti…

quant-ph2015

Enhanced strain coupling of nitrogen vacancy spins to nanoscale diamond cantilevers

Srujan Meesala, Young-Ik Sohn, Haig A. Atikian +4

Nitrogen vacancy (NV) centers can couple to confined phonons in diamond mechanical resonators via the effect of lattice strain on their energy levels. Access to the strong spin-pho…

cs.CL2025

Word Definitions from Large Language Models

Bach Pham, JuiHsuan Wong, Samuel Kim +2

Dictionary definitions are historically the arbitrator of what words mean, but this primacy has come under threat by recent progress in NLP, including word embeddings and generativ…