About

Biography

My name is Zilin Jing. I’m a second-year CS Ph.D. student advised by Prof. Shalmali Joshi at Columbia University.

Previously, I received my B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, where I was fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Shuang Li and Prof. Hongyuan Zha. From Jan 2023 to Aug 2023, I was an international visiting student at Yale University through Y-VISP.

You can reach me at zj2398{at}columbia.edu.

Research

Research Interest: foundation models for event streams (e.g., electronic health records), causal inference, reinforcement learning, and in-context learning.

News

• [2025/11] Seeking Summer 2026 Research Scientist / ML Engineer internship opportunities — feel free to contact me.
• [2025/09] 🎉 New paper on Active Feature Acquisition with In-Context Learning : Learning-to-Measure (L2M) arXiv.
• [2025/05] 🎉 New Paper on Foundation Model for structured Electronic Health Records (EHRs): Fomoh arXiv.
• [2024/09] Started my CS Ph.D. at Columbia.
• [2023/07] 🎉 One paper accepted to ICML 2023 (IMLH workshop) OpenReview.