Samuel Schapiro

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Bio

Interdisciplinary scholar studying creativity and the science of intelligence.

Currently

Founding research scientist at Prior Computers, the machine psychology company.

Previously

Researcher at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley.

Undergrad in TCS at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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Theories of Creativity

• S. Schapiro, J. Black, L. R. Varshney, Transformational Creativity in Science: A Graphical Theory, in the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2025. [Best Short Paper Award]

Understanding Creativity in Large Language Models

• S. Schapiro, C. Francisco Park, S. Murthy, L. R. Varshney, F. Sosa, CreativityNeuro: Discovering Controllable and Transferable Creativity Subspaces in LLMs, Under Review at Third Conference on Language Modeling, 2026.
• S. Schapiro, S. Shashidhar, A. Gladstone, J. Black, R. Moon, D. Hakkani-Tur, L. R. Varshney, Combinatorial Creativity: A New Frontier in Generalization Abilities, Under Review at 16th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2026.

Computational Creativity Systems

• A. Sanyal, S. Schapiro, S. Shashidhar, R. Moon, L. R. Varshney, D. Hakkani-Tur, Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea Generation, in the Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Creativity, 2025.

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