Samson Yu

samson.yu [at] u.nus.edu

My research interest is AI-assisted scientific discovery for longevity. I envision a future where research agents (RA) can send ideas into cloud-based, AI-assisted wet labs for efficient and explainable experiments. 🧬

I'm currently fascinated by these research questions:

Knowledge & representations: Can the way RAs choose experiments tell us about its scientific knowledge?
Ideation: Can thought experiments help RAs come up with creative (original and effective) ideas?
Experimentation: Does an explicit set of beliefs about the underlying world help agents choose informative experiments in a principled way?
Evaluation: What wet lab skills can be trained in simulation?
Longevity: Which areas in longevity research are most amenable to AI-assisted discovery?

I’m a PhD student at NUS Medicine, advised by Dianbo Liu. I hold a Master of Computing (AI) from NUS, advised by Harold Soh, and a BEng (ISTD) from SUTD.

Outside of research, I treat music (making music, playing piano, singing) as serious leisure for emotional wellbeing (mentored by Melvin Goh), and participate in my local Plum Village community for spiritual wellbeing. 🎵🪷

news

Sep 25, 2026	FML-bench is accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 Evaluations & Datasets (E&D) Track! 🎉

selected publications

PhysRev

Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?

A. Einstein^*†, B. Podolsky^*, and N. Rosen^*

Phys. Rev., New Jersey. More Information can be found here , May 1935

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In a complete theory there is an element corresponding to each element of reality. A sufficient condition for the reality of a physical quantity is the possibility of predicting it with certainty, without disturbing the system. In quantum mechanics in the case of two physical quantities described by non-commuting operators, the knowledge of one precludes the knowledge of the other. Then either (1) the description of reality given by the wave function in quantum mechanics is not complete or (2) these two quantities cannot have simultaneous reality. Consideration of the problem of making predictions concerning a system on the basis of measurements made on another system that had previously interacted with it leads to the result that if (1) is false then (2) is also false. One is thus led to conclude that the description of reality as given by a wave function is not complete.