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 received my MSEE from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington. During my time at UW, I worked on a UW-Lenovo Research project with Prof. Radha Poovendran and Dr. Yan Li, and interned at the Yale NLP Lab with Prof. Arman Cohan and Yilun Zhao. Before that, I received my BEng from Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and the University of Liverpool in 2024, advised by Prof. Jieming Ma.

Research Interests

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!

Patient-Similarity Cohort Reasoning in Clinical Text-to-SQL
Yifei Shen∗, Yilun Zhao∗, Justice Ou, Tinglin Huang, Arman Cohan
EACL 2026 Main (Oral)