Yifei Shen

Hi! I’m a 2nd-year master’s student at the University of Washington in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prior to UW, I received my BEng from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and University of Liverpool in 2024, advised by Prof. Jieming Ma.

I’m currently working as a remote intern at the Yale NLP Lab, advised by Prof. Arman Cohan and Yilun Zhao. Previously, I worked as a Research Intern on a collaborative project between the University of Washington and Lenovo Research, advised by Prof. Radha Poovendran and Dr. Yan Li.

I’m seeking research intern positions in large language models and PhD opportunities for Fall 2026.

Research Interests

• (Multimodal) Foundation Models
• LLM Agents
• AI for Healthcare

News

• 01/2026: Our work ClinSQL: A Challenging Benchmark for Patient-Similarity Cohort Reasoning in Clinical Text-to-SQL has been accepted to EACL 2026 Main!
• 06/2025: Our work Jupyter Notebook As a Natural Multi-agent Multi-human Playground: A Generalizable Design for Collaborative Intelligence has been accepted to ICCV 2025 Workshop MMRAgI!
• 05/2025: Our work SciVer: Evaluating Foundation Models for Multimodal Scientific Claim Verification has been accepted to ACL 2025!
• 05/2025: Our team won 2nd Place at ENGINE 2025 Showcase for our project Efficient Inference of Large Language Models on Single GPU, sponsored by Lenovo Research!

Selected Publications

2026

• ClinSQL: A Challenging Benchmark for Patient-Similarity Cohort Reasoning in Clinical Text-to-SQL
  Yifei Shen, Yilun Zhao, Justice Ou, Tinglin Huang, Arman Cohan
  EACL 2026 Main
• Experience Retrieval-Augmentation with Electronic Health Records Enables Accurate Discharge QA
  Justice Ou∗, Tinglin Huang∗, Yilun Zhao, Ziyang Yu, Peiqing Lu, Yifei Shen, Rex Ying
  EACL 2026 Main

2025

• Jupyter Notebook As a Natural Multi-agent Multi-human Playground: A Generalizable Design for Collaborative Intelligence
  Tianwei Zhao, Bingyang Wang, Jiarong Li, Yifei Shen, Mo Yang, Xander Wu, Yijiang Li
  ICCV Workshop on Multi-Modal Reasoning for Agentic Intelligence
• SciVer: Evaluating Foundation Models for Multimodal Scientific Claim Verification
  Chengye Wang, Yifei Shen, Zexi Kuang, Arman Cohan, Yilun Zhao
  ACL 2025 Main