About
Hi! I’m Zihan, a third-year Ph.D. student at University of Washington, Seattle, advised by Prof. Paul Kinahan (IEEE Life Fellow, FAAPM, FSNMMI, FAIMBE). I received my Master degree from the Department of Computer Science, UIUC in 2023.
My research focuses on the Pretraining and Optimization of Multimodal Foundation Model, Supervised Fine-Tuning and Alignment of Vision-Language Model, Autonomous Agentic LLM, and Large-scale Data Harmonization. I am also committed to carrying out quantitative analysis for tissues and organs of the human body and determine treatment planning by combining AI with healthcare data. I am currently a member of the AAPM-MIDRC subcommittee and MIDRC/CRP-12, dedicated to determining medical image data quality, provenance, and harmonization. Open to future collaboration on any interesting project, I’d be delighted to engage in further conversation via Email.
I am on the job market and actively seeking research scientist/academic position opportunities starting in Summer 2027!
Recent News
- 🔥 [June 2026] Awarded the UW Herbold Fellowship (only 5 Recipients).
- 🔥 [June 2026] Awarded the Ruby Newhall Memorial Scholarship.
- 🔥 [May 2026] One work SynMamba is early accepted by MICCAI 2026.
- 🔥 [Apr 2026] We are calling for the submission of topic “Clinical Neuroinformatics: AI-Powered Precision Medicine for the Brain”. Submission Deadline: 12 October, 2026
- 🔥 [Feb 2026] Our work DiffKT3D is accepted by CVPR 2026.
- 🔥 [Feb 2026] Our work receive the Imaging Informatics Best Paper Runner-Up at SPIE Medical Imaging.
- 🔥 [Feb 2026] One paper is accepted by Journal of Advanced Research.
- 🔥 [Jan 2026] Our work MGLL is accepted by ICLR 2026.
- 🔥 [Dec 2025] Awarded the Gold-level Top Reviewer for IEEE TMI.
- 🔥 [Nov 2025] Our work SASNet is accepted by Pattern Recognition.
- 🔥 [Oct 2025] Our work is accepted by SPIE MI 2026 as Oral Presentation.
- 🔥 [Aug 2025] Our work VisionUnite is accepted by IEEE TPAMI.
- [May 2025] Our work STPNet is accepted by IEEE TIP.
- [Mar 2025] Awarded the Mortar Board Alumni/Tolo Foundation’s Ayers Scholarship.
- [Jan 2025] One abstract is accepted by SIIM 2025 as Oral Presentation.
- [Dec 2024] Our work ICTC is accepted by ICASSP 2025.
- [Oct 2024] One paper is accepted by Medical Physics.
- [Aug 2024] One paper is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems.
- [May 2024] Our work RAOS is early accepted by MICCAI 2024.
- [Apr 2024] One paper is accepted by Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer.
- [Feb 2024] Our work ScribFormer is accepted by IEEE TMI.
- [Aug 2023] Our work ScribbleVC is accepted by ACM MM 2023.
- [July 2023] One paper NeRCo is accepted by ICCV 2023.
- [June 2023] Our work LViT is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI).
- [May 2023] We release the first Medical LLM ChatDoctor and its huggingface repo.
- [May 2023] Two papers (SwinMM, CorSegRec) are accepted by MICCAI 2023 as Oral Presentation.
- [May 2023] One paper DTDF-HFF is accepted by IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS).
- [May 2023] Awarded the Conference Presentation Award for Graduate Students by UIUC.
- [Feb 2023] Our Work C2FVL is accepted by ICASSP 2023.
My work and research
My current works focus on multimodal foundation model and agentic AI. I have participated in multiple internships in both academia and industry. I have worked as a research intern at the University of Cambridge, Johns Hopkins University, and Peking University, as well as at Optum AI (UnitedHealth Group), Siemens Healthineers, Alibaba DAMO Academy and Shanghai AI Laboratory. I have worked closely with several respected professors including Prof. Alan L. Yuille, Prof. Pietro Liò, Prof. Sina Farsiu, Prof. Jeffrey Bradley, Prof. Dinggang Shen, Prof. Jie Tian, Prof. Yu Qiao, Dr. Ali Kamen and Dr. Le Lu.
My background and history
I am pursuing my Ph.D. degree from University of Washington and I received Master Degree from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and received Bachelor Degree from Xiamen University.