Yifei Shen
Hi! I’m an incoming PhD student in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, starting in Fall 2026, where I will be advised by Prof. Zhe Jiang. I am currently a 2nd-year master’s student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. Prior to UW, I received my BEng from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and the University of Liverpool in 2024, advised by Prof. Jieming Ma.
Most recently, I was a research 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.
Research Interests
- (Multimodal) Foundation Models
- LLM Agents
- AI4Research
News
- 03/2026: I will join the University of Florida CISE department as a PhD student in Fall 2026, advised by Prof. Zhe Jiang.
- 02/2026: Our work Patient-Similarity Cohort Reasoning in Clinical Text-to-SQL has been selected for an Oral presentation at EACL 2026 Main!
- 01/2026: Our work 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
- Patient-Similarity Cohort Reasoning in Clinical Text-to-SQL
Yifei Shen∗, Yilun Zhao∗, Justice Ou, Tinglin Huang, Arman Cohan
EACL 2026 Main (Oral)
2025
- SciVer: Evaluating Foundation Models for Multimodal Scientific Claim Verification
Chengye Wang, Yifei Shen, Zexi Kuang, Arman Cohan, Yilun Zhao
ACL 2025 Main