Samuel Schapiro

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Bio and Research Interests

I am an interdisciplinary scholar studying the science of intelligence. I am currently interested in

1. Understanding the foundations of creativity–namely, how it is implemented in minds and machines
2. Developing AI methods and systems that exhibit creative behavior

Previously, I was a researcher at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Berkeley. I did my undergrad at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where I studied theoretical computer science.

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Foundations 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]
• 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.

Creative AI Systems

• S. Schapiro, C. Francisco Park, F. Sosa, L. R. Varshney, CreativityNeuro: Discovering Controllable and Transferable Creativity Subspaces in LLMs, Under Review at Third Conference on Language Modeling, 2026.
• 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.

Service

• Reviewer at ICML 2026, COLM 2026, NeurIPS 2026, NeurIPS 2024 (Workshop on Creativity & Generative AI)

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