Samuel Yuan

I'm from Sunnyvale, CA — I'm a rising sophomore at MIT studying CS.

Lately, I've enjoyed working on local LMs and agents. I also like writing, chess, and Minecraft. My favorite animal is the panda.

Publications & Preprints

*denotes equal contribution

Diffusion Models for Conditional Generation of Hypothetical New Families of Superconductors

S Yuan, SV Dordevic

Scientific Reports

May 4, 2024

paper arXiv code

Orbit Determination of Mars-Crossing Asteroid 699 Hela

M Judkins-Cooper*, N Marabito*, S Yuan*

SSP Final Report

July 16, 2024

paper slides code

Hopefully more to come soon!

Projects

wavecat

wavecat is a fully local personal agent that watches your screen. By viewing your activity, it develops a rich understanding of you. Entirely on device for privacy.

Learn More

Superconductor Discovery

I've worked on applying diffusion models for superconductor discovery and getting deep learning models to explore out-of-distribution.

Learn More

Asteroid Orbit Determination

At SSP, I spent six weeks with friends at the Sommers-Bausch Observatory in Boulder, CO and worked on determining the orbit of mars-crosser A910 LC with the Method of Gauss.

Learn More

thypher.com

(now deprecated; 29.3k peak players) A fun Physics-inspired Wordle-like game. You guess a daily 5-letter word by deciphering equations.

Learn More

Firebreak Optimization

A friend and I built a genetic algorithm for firebreak placement optimization and a cellular-automata wildfire simulation model for science fair.

Learn More

Hello! My name is Samuel Yuan.