About
Biography
My name is Zilin Jing. Iām 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
- [2026/05-2026/08] š I will join the Microsoft Health Futures team as a research intern this summer. Open to coffee chat if you are around Seattle.
- [2026/05] Our paper L2M on active feature acquisition with In-Context Learning is accpeted by ICML 2026!
- [2025/05] New benchmark paper on foundation model for structured Electronic Health Records (EHRs).
- [2024/09] Started my CS Ph.D. at Columbia.
- [2023/07] One paper accepted to ICML 2023 Workshop Interpretable Machine Learning in Healthcare Paper.