I am Qianqi “Jackie” Yan, a second year CSE Ph.D. student @University of California, Santa Cruz, working with Prof. Xin (Eric) Wang as a member of the Embodied and Responsible Interaction and Communication (ERIC) Lab.

I obtained my dual bachelor’s degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2023. Previously, I worked with Prof. Joyce Chai and Prof. Stella Yu.

Research Interests

My research interests focus on visual-language models, AI for healthcare, and embodied AI. Please don’t hesitate to email me if you are interested in this area. I will be happy to talk with you ;)

News

  • [2024.04] I will join eBay as a research intern in 2024 summer.

Publication & Preprints

  • Worse than Random? An Embarrassingly Simple Probing Evaluation of Large Multimodal Models in Medical VQA
    Qianqi Yan, Xuehai He, Xiang Yue, Xin Eric Wang
    Under Review

  • Muffin or Chihuahua? Challenging Large Vision-Language Models with Multipanel VQA
    Yue Fan, Jing Gu, Kaiwen Zhou, Qianqi Yan, Shan Jiang, Ching-Chen Kuo, Xinze Guan, Xin Eric Wang
    ACL 2024

  • Med-HVL: Automatic Medical Domain Hallucination Evaluation for Large Vision-Language Models
    Qianqi Yan, Xuehai He, Xin Eric Wang
    AAAI 2024 Spring Symposium on Clinical Foundation Models

Service

Program Committee Member (Reviewer)

  • ICLR 2024, ICCV 2023

Education

  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2023 - present
  • B.S.E. in Computer Science, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), 2021 - 2023
  • B.S.E. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2019 - 2023
  • Visiting Student, Technische Universit¨at Berlin, 2020

Teaching

  • CSE101: Introduction to Data Structures and Algorithms, University of California, Santa Cruz
  • EECS 448: Human-Centered Machine Learning, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • VE 215: Intro to Circuits, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
  • VG 101: Intro to Computers and Programming, Shanghai Jiao Tong University