Yifei Shen
Hi! I’m an incoming CS PhD student at the University of Florida, where I will be advised by Prof. Zhe Jiang. Before that, I received my master’s degree from the University of Washington and my bachelor’s degree from the University of Liverpool. I’m interested in LLM for Science and AI Agents. If you’re interested in my research, feel free to reach out!
Research Interests
- Multimodal Foundation Models
- LLM Agents
- AI4S
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!
- 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