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Simon A. Lee

Simon A. Lee

World models for health AI

PhD student

UCLA

Your week at a glance

  • Small group — you facilitate Group 5 · Perseus on Day 4 (Methods & modeling).
  • Job talk — Day 6 (Sat, Jun 27), 9:15 AM · Room A · Alder 107 — “Toward a General Health Intelligence: Learning to Understand and Intervene in Human Health”.
  • Poster — Day 7 (Sun, Jun 28) · Session B (10:30–11:30 AM).

Simon A. Lee is a Ph.D. Candidate working with Dr. Jeffrey Chiang. His primary work revolves around developing foundations and world models on health data. He’s held positions in the industry at Google Research, Samsung Research, and Celsius Therapeutics during his time as a student. He’s generously supported by the Warren Alpert Fellowship, and is an active member of the MEDS Working Group.

Awards & honors

Recognition

  • Travel Award, ICLR (2026)
  • Presidential Award, Samsung Research America (2025)
  • NVIDIA Academic Grant Program (DGX Spark) (2025)
  • ICML Spotlight Paper — top 2.6% (313/12107) (2025)
  • Travel Award, SAIL Symposium (2025)
  • Best Paper Runner-Up, AAAI Bridge Program on AI for Medicine and Healthcare (2025)
  • OpenAI–UCLA Project Proposal Selection (2024)
  • Warren Alpert Computational Biology & AI Fellow (2024)