Samuel Schapiro

I am an interdisciplinary scholar drawing upon computer science, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology to study the science of intelligence.

Previously, I was a visiting scholar at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley, where I worked on the theoretical foundations of creativity. I received my undergradute degree in computer science at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where I was advised by Prof. Han Zhao.

In my free time, I enjoy sports performance training and studying exercise science.

Select Publications

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.