Saber Soleymani

Writing

Practitioner articles, essays, and academic papers. The practitioner pieces are where I test whether an idea is useful; the papers are where I test whether it is true.

Articles and essays

The Frontier TrapIn progress

Under development for HBR; also considering MIT SMR and CMR

Why enterprise AI spending rises as model costs fall.

The cost of innovation: accelerable versus scalableDraft

Human Genome Project versus Celera, and what it means for AI.

Do LLMs reduce criticism?Idea

Notes on how AI assistants change the culture of feedback.

Academic publications

Prompt2CypherUnder revision

Scientific Reports, 2026

Natural-language querying of biomedical knowledge graphs with LLMs (preprint: “Task Splitting and Prompt Engineering for Cypher Query Generation”, bioRxiv 2025).

Socratic Method Revisited: Human-AI Dialogue for Knowledge Creation

Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2026

Guided-conversation AI as a method for knowledge creation.

CLASPP: A unified model for predicting post-translational modifications

PLoS Computational Biology, 2026

A single model for predicting multiple post-translational modifications.

Identification and classification of ion channels across the tree of life

eLife, 2026

Sequence-based identification and classification of ion channels.

Flood of techniques and drought of theories: emotion mining in disasters

Journal of Computational Social Science, 2024

A review of emotion mining in disaster contexts and its thin theoretical base.

Using explainable machine learning to uncover the kinase-substrate interaction landscape

Bioinformatics, 2024

Explainable models of which kinases phosphorylate which substrates.

Phosformer: an explainable transformer model for protein kinase-specific phosphorylation predictions

Bioinformatics, 2023

A transformer for kinase-specific phosphorylation site prediction.

Dark kinase annotation, mining, and visualization using the Protein Kinase Ontology

PeerJ, 2023

Ontology-driven annotation of understudied kinases.

The cost of looking natural: why the no-makeup movement may fail

Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, 2021

Consumer responses to natural-looking versus made-up appearance.

GTXplorer: a portal to navigate and visualize the evolutionary information encoded in fold A glycosyltransferases

Glycobiology, 2021

A web portal for evolutionary analysis of glycosyltransferases.

Socially aware multimodal deep neural networks for fake news classification

IEEE Conference on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR), 2021

Combining text, images, and social context to classify fake news.

Personalized feedback emails: a case study on online introductory computer science courses

ACM Southeast Regional Conference, 2020

Automated personalized feedback for students in online CS courses.

Curtailing fake news propagation with psychographics

2020

Using psychographic profiles to slow the spread of fake news.