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Hello! My name is Samuel Yuan.

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I'm from Sunnyvale, CA — this fall, I'll be a sophomore at MIT majoring in CS.
Lately, I've enjoyed working on local LMs and agents. I also like writing, chess, and Minecraft. My favorite animal is the panda!
Publications & Preprints
*denotes equal contribution
Diffusion Models for Conditional Generation of Hypothetical New Families of Superconductors
S Yuan, SV Dordevic
Scientific Reports
May 4, 2024
paper arXiv code
Orbit Determination of Mars-Crossing Asteroid 699 Hela
M Judkins-Cooper*, N Marabito*, S Yuan*
SSP Final Report
July 16, 2024
paper slides code
Hopefully more to come soon!
Projects
Superconductor Discovery
I've worked on applying diffusion models for superconductor discovery and getting deep learning models to explore out-of-distribution.
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Asteroid Orbit Determination
At SSP, I spent six weeks with friends at the Sommers-Bausch Observatory in Boulder, CO and worked on determining the orbit of mars-crosser A910 LC with the Method of Gauss.
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thypher.com
(now deprecated; 29.3k peak players) A fun Physics-inspired Wordle-like game. You guess a daily 5-letter word by deciphering equations.
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Firebreak Optimization
A friend and I built a genetic algorithm for firebreak placement optimization and a cellular-automata wildfire simulation model for science fair.
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If you have questions about my work or if you'd just like to talk, please feel free to reach out at: sdkyuan [at] mit [dot] edu
© 2026 Samuel Yuan. (Last Updated: June 10, 2026)