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 trustworthy AI models and AI for healthcare. Please don’t hesitate to email me if you are interested in this area. I will be happy to talk with you ;)

News

• [2024.12] I will be attending Neurips 2024 and presenting at the GenAI4Health Workshop. Please feel free to reach out for a coffee chat!
• [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
  Neurips 2024 GenAI4Health Workshop
  

• 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)

• Main Conference: ICLR 2025, ICLR 2024, ICCV 2023
• Workshop: ALVR 2024

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