Zihao Yang

Zihao Yang

First-year CS PhD student at Northeastern University. Graduated with a Bachelor's degree in CS & DS from NYU.

Hi, there! I’m Zihao(Gavin).

I am a first-year CS PhD student at Northeastern University, advised by Professor Byron Wallace. I graduated cum laude from New York University with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Data Science. Previously, I worked in VisionX Lab as a research intern, advised by Professor Saining Xie. During my undergraduate program, I worked in OLAB and Memo Lab, advised by Professor Eric K. Oermann and Professor Chen Shuo respectively. My research interests include AI for Healthcare and Multimodal Learning. My research currently focuses on incorporating mechanistic interpretability techniques into real-world clinical scenarios to enhance model trustworthiness.

I have been fortunate to be advised by Professor Xie, Professor Oermann, and Professor Shuo. I am also grateful for the memtorship from Lavender Y. Jiang, Xujin C. Liu, Professor Kyunghyun Cho, and Professor Samuel R. Bowman.

Email: yang.zih@northeastern.edu ; zy2091@nyu.edu. CV: link.

Publication

Refining Packing and Shuffling Strategies for Enhanced Performance in Generative Language Models
Yanbing Chen, Ruilin Wang, Zihao Yang, Lavender Jiang, Eric Oermann
Preprint

Medical large language models are vulnerable to data-poisoning attacks
Daniel Alber, Zihao Yang, Anton Alyakin, Eunice Yang, Sumedha Rai, Aly Valliani, Jeff Zhang, Gabriel Rosenbaum, Ashley Amend-Thomas, David Kurland, Caroline Kremer, Alexander Eremiev, Bruck Negash, Daniel Wiggan, Michelle Nakatsuka, Karl Sangwon, Sean Neifert, Hammad Khan, Akshay Save, Adhith Palla, Eric Grin, Monika Hedman, Mustafa Nasir-Moin, Xujin Liu, Lavender Jiang, Michal Mankowski, Dorry Segev, Yindalon Aphinyanaphongs, Howard Riina, John Golfinos, Daniel Orringer, Douglas Kondziolka, Eric Oermann
Nature Medicine

BPQA Dataset: Evaluating How Well Language Models Leverage Blood Pressures to Answer Biomedical Questions
Chi Hang, Ruiqi Deng, Lavender Jiang, Zihao Yang, Daniel Alber, Anton Alyakin, Eric Oermann
Preprint

Language Models Can Guess Your Identities from De-identified Clinical Notes
Lavender Jiang, Daniel Alber, Zihao Yang, Karl Sangwon, Xujin Liu, Kyunghyun Cho, Eric Oermann
Preprint

Intriguing Effect of the Correlation Prior on ICD-9 Code Assignment
Zihao Yang, Chenkang Zhang, Muru Wu, Xujin Liu, Lavender Jiang, Kyunghyun Cho, Eric Oermann
ACL 2023 SRW

Education

  • (2025-present) Ph.D., Computer Science, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
  • (2020-2024) B.A., Computer Science & Data Science, New York University, New York, NY, USA