Curriculum Vitae

Research profile, training, and recent milestones

Sihang Zeng develops AI methods for longitudinal electronic health records, with a focus on patient trajectory modeling, clinical foundation models, and trustworthy decision support.

PhD Candidate in Biomedical Informatics, University of Washington Seattle, Washington

Education

PhD in Biomedical Informatics 2023 - 2026 (expected)

University of Washington

Advised by Ruth Etzioni and Meliha Yetisgen. Committee includes Hoifung Poon, Matthew Thompson, and Noemi Kreif.

BEng in Electronic Engineering, Minor in Statistics 2019 - 2023

Tsinghua University

Built the foundations for later work in biomedical representation learning and AI for healthcare.

Experience

ML Intern 2025

Truveta

Worked on foundation-model ideas over large-scale de-identified clinical data for disease trajectory and screening applications.

PhD Researcher 2023 - present

University of Washington

Researching longitudinal EHR modeling, clinical decision support, and evaluation methods for biomedical AI.

Undergraduate Researcher 2019 - 2023

Tsinghua University

Focused on biomedical term and knowledge representation, bridging NLP infrastructure with downstream biomedical reasoning.

Selected honors

  • 1st Place, ChemoTimelines 2025 Challenge
  • NeurIPS 2024 Datasets and Benchmarks Spotlight for UltraMedical

Profiles