Kevin M. Zhang

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Hello! I am a BS/MS student at the University of Washington studying computer science and biochemistry. I currently work on medical multimodal reasoning, large-scale data curation, and benchmarking with Wisdom Ikezogwo under Prof. Linda Shapiro and Prof. Ranjay Krishna. I also work on applications of medical AI under Dr. Jay Pal.

My research interests include:

  • Large-scale multimodal dataset curation
  • Multimodal reasoning

I am involved in an international medical effort in Nepal led by Dr. Jay Pal under UW’s Department of Global Health. I also volunteer in community health at the Asia Pacific Cultural Center.

In my free time, I enjoy water polo and reading.

news

Sep 13, 2025 Completed my internship at Microsoft! Many thanks to Rohit Pathak, Adrian Leal, Michael Berezansky, and Jessie Yao for their guidance and mentorship.
Sep 10, 2025 A photo taken of the humanitarian outreach effort in Nepal led by Dr. Pal appeared in the 2024 TSF Annual Report.
Aug 26, 2025 Our abstract Comprehensive Phenotypic and Institutional Variation in Contemporary TAVR Recipients: Insights from a Regional Multicenter Cohort was accepted for a presentation at TCT 2025 in San Francisco, CA.

selected publications

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    MedicalNarratives: Connecting Medical Vision and Language with Localized Narratives
    Kevin Zhang*, Wisdom O. Ikezogwo*, Mehmet Saygin Seyfioglu, Fatemeh Ghezloo, Linda Shapiro, and Ranjay Krishna
    PrePrint 2025
    arXiv website
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    MedBLINK: Probing Basic Perception in Multimodal Language Models for Medicine
    Kevin Zhang*, Mahtab Bigverdi*, Wisdom Ikezogwo*, Hyewon Jeong, Mingyu Lu, Sungjae Cho, Linda Shapiro, and Ranjay Krishna
    CVAMD 2025
    arXiv website