Dongjin Seo

Blog

Notes and informal essays. Mostly about AI for physicists, scientific machine learning, and things I’m trying to understand more deeply by writing them down.

• Aug 07, 2026 Perspective Perspective: Coming Soon
  Research directions I find compelling but am not directly working on: ideas worth someone pursuing.
• Aug 07, 2026 Paper Reviewed Paper Reviewed: Coming Soon
  Reviews of papers I didn't write, spanning neuroscience, AI, and physics: what I think they get right, and why.
• Aug 07, 2026 MetaLife MetaLife: Coming Soon
  Altruism, game theory, feedback, and failure: ideas about how to live and understand people, argued from first principles.
• Aug 07, 2026 Photonics for Computer Scientists Photonics for Computer Scientists: Coming Soon
  Photonics concepts explained for people with a computer science background, and vice versa.
• Aug 07, 2026 MetaResearch MetaResearch: Coming Soon
  A collection of research philosophies from people I find worth learning from, and what I take from each.
• May 31, 2026 Paper Explained Designing Photonic Devices with Diffusion Models + Physics: AdjointDiffusion
  An intuitive walkthrough of our ACS Photonics paper: how combining a generative diffusion model with the adjoint method discovers high-performance, fabricable photonic devices.
• May 26, 2026 AI for Physicists AI for Physicists 1: Gradient Descent
  Re-reading gradient descent with a physicist's intuition: potential landscapes, forces, and why it is the starting point of modern ML.

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