🔥 News

• 2026.08: 🎉 OpenSkill: Open-World Self-Evolution for LLM Agents accepted by EMNLP 2026
• 2026.07: 🎉 Evaluating GPT-4V for Multi-modal Medical Applications: A Comparative Study Using Open-source Datasets accepted by IEEE TRPMS
• 2026.06: 🎉 LiveMedBench: A Contamination-Free Medical Benchmark for LLMs with Automated Rubric Evaluation accepted by KDD 2026
• 2026.05: 🎉 Agentic AI Enhances Physician Trust in Clinical Decision Making accepted by AMIA 2026 Annual Symposium
• 2026.05: 🏆 Received Best Research Award from CSE, Lehigh University
• 2026.05: 🚀 Started research internship at Harvard University
• 2026.02: 🎉 TTT-UNet: Enhancing U-Net with Test-Time Training Layers for Biomedical Image Segmentation accepted by MIDL 2026 (Oral)

📝 Selected Publications

• OpenSkill: Open-World Self-Evolution for LLM Agents, Zhiling Yan❁, Dingjie Song❁, Hanrong Zhang, Wei Liang, Yuxuan Zhang, Yutong Dai, Lifang He, Philip S. Yu, Ran Xu, Xiang Li, Lichao Sun (EMNLP 26) [Code]
• LiveMedBench: A Contamination-Free Medical Benchmark for LLMs with Automated Rubric Evaluation, Zhiling Yan, Dingjie Song, Zhe Fang, Yisheng Ji, Xiang Li, Quanzheng Li, Lichao Sun (KDD 26) [Code]
• Agentic AI Enhances Physician Trust in Clinical Decision Making, Zhiling Yan, Zhe Fang, David J. King, Ann Pongsakul, Eashan Adhikarla, Hui Ren, Sunyang Fu, Quanzheng Li, Lifang He, Xiang Li, Hongfang Liu, Yonghui Wu, Lichao Sun (AMIA 26) [Code]
• Evaluating GPT-4V for Multi-modal Medical Applications: A Comparative Study Using Open-source Datasets, Zhiling Yan, Rong Zhou, Kai Zhang, Wenting Chen, Yuteng Zeng, Yi Luo, Zhe Fang, Hui Ren, Quanzheng Li, Yixuan Yuan, Tianming Liu, Carl Yang, Yong Chen, James Zou, Lifang He, Xiang Li, Lichao Sun (IEEE TRPMS 26) [Code]
• SAMed-2: Selective Memory Enhanced Medical Segment Anything Model, Zhiling Yan, Sifan Song, Dingjie Song, Yiwei Li, Rong Zhou, Weixiang Sun, Zhennong Chen, Sekeun Kim, Hui Ren, Tianming Liu, Quanzheng Li, Xiang Li, Lifang He, Lichao Sun (MICCAI 25) [Code]
• CellMix: A General Instance Relationship based Method for Data Augmentation Towards Pathology Image Classification, Tianyi Zhang❁, Zhiling Yan❁, Chunhui Li, Nan Ying, Yanli Lei, Yunlu Feng, Yu Zhao, Guanglei Zhang (IEEE TNNLS 25) [Code]
• TTT-UNet: Enhancing U-Net with Test-Time Training Layers for Biomedical Image Segmentation, Rong Zhou❁, Zhengqing Yuan❁, Zhiling Yan❁, Weixiang Sun❁, Kai Zhang, Yiwei Li, Xiang Li, Quanzheng Li, Lifang He, Lichao Sun (MIDL 26, Oral) [Code]
• A generalist vision–language foundation model for diverse biomedical tasks, Kai Zhang, Rong Zhou, Eashan Adhikarla, Zhiling Yan, Yixin Liu, Jun Yu, Zhengliang Liu, Xun Chen, Brian D. Davison, Hui Ren, Jing Huang, Chen Chen, Yuyin Zhou, Sunyang Fu, Wei Liu, Tianming Liu, Xiang Li, Yong Chen, Lifang He, James Zou, Quanzheng Li, Hongfang Liu, Lichao Sun (Nature Medicine 24) [Code]
• A Survey of AI-Generated Content (AIGC), Yihan Cao, Siyu Li, Yixin Liu, Zhiling Yan, Yutong Dai, Philip S. Yu, Lichao Sun (ACM Computing Surveys 25)
• MA-SAM: Modality-agnostic SAM adaptation for 3D medical image segmentation, Cheng Chen, Juzheng Miao, Dufan Wu, Aoxiao Zhong, Zhiling Yan, Sekeun Kim, Jiang Hu, Zhengliang Liu, Lichao Sun, Xiang Li, Tianming Liu, Pheng-Ann Heng, Quanzheng Li (Medical Image Analysis 24) [Code]

❁ denotes equal contribution.

📰 Peer Review

• NeurIPS Reviewer
• KDD Reviewer
• COLM Reviewer
• MICCAI Reviewer
• IEEE ICHI Reviewer
• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI) Reviewer
• IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (TAI) Reviewer
• ACM Transactions on Computing for Healthcare Reviewer

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2026.05 Best Research Award, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University
• 2026.04 NSF ACCESS Award (Award CIS260542)
• 2025.09 Lehigh University Fellowship
• 2023.09 Lehigh University Fellowship