Kevin M. Zhang

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Hello! I am a BS/MS student at the University of Washington studying computer science. I am a student researcher at AI2 on the Open Ecosystem team. I currently work on medical multimodal reasoning, large-scale data curation, and benchmarking with Wisdom Ikezogwo under James Park, Prof. Ranjay Krishna, and Prof. Linda Shapiro. I also work on applications of medical AI under Dr. Jay Pal.

My research interests include:

  • Large-scale multimodal dataset curation
  • multimodal grounded 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 07, 2026 Our paper MedBLINK: Probing Basic Perception in Multimodal Language Models for Medicine was accepted at the COLM 2026 DAIH Workshop.
Jun 10, 2026 Started at AI2 on the Open Ecosystem team as a student researcher.
Sep 18, 2025 Our paper MedicalNarratives: Connecting Medical Vision and Language with Localized Narratives has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025 D&B.

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
    NeurIPS 2025
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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
    ICCV 2025 CVAMD Workshop, COLM 2026 DAIH Workshop 2025