Samuel Schapiro

I am the Co-Founder and CEO of Spiral Works. We are an AI research lab developing creative superintelligence.

I lead our research team studying the algorithmic and theoretical foundations of creativity.

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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.
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, Jun 23-27, Campinas, Brazil. [Best Short Paper Award]
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, Jun 23-27, Campinas, Brazil.