Samson Yu

samson.yu [at] u.nus.edu

My research interests are AI-assisted scientific discovery (ideation, experimentation) and longevity. 🧬

I'm currently fascinated by these research questions:

How can foundation and/or world models improve research ideation and experiment selection?
What areas of longevity have the most room for AI-assisted improvements?
How can we build an effective automated wet lab?

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, and participate in my local Plum Village community for spiritual wellbeing. 🎵🪷

news

Jan 15, 2016	A simple inline announcement with Markdown emoji!
Nov 07, 2015	A long announcement with details
Oct 22, 2015	A simple inline announcement.

latest posts

Apr 28, 2025	a post with marimo snippets
Mar 26, 2025	a post with plotly.js
Dec 04, 2024	a post with image galleries

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.