I am Qianqi “Jackie” Yan, a first-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

• 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
  Preprint
  

• 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