I am a Research Fellow in the Department of Biomedical Informatics (DBMI) at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University, working with Prof. Tianxi Cai. Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at CCAI, College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University (2021–2024), advised by Prof. Yi Yang. My research builds reliable and controllable multimodal learning and generation methods, with growing emphasis on translational biomedical applications.

My work is organized around three connected research directions:

1) Translational Biomedical AI

Building biology-informed and clinically grounded AI systems across medical imaging, EHR intelligence, and translational biomedical settings.

2) Controllable Multimodal Generation

Developing controllable multimodal generation methods for image, video, and 3D content, with emphasis on compositionality, reliability, and practical usability.

3) Multimodal Perception and Understanding

Advancing multimodal perception and understanding for dynamic environments through segmentation, tracking, and reasoning with robust temporal consistency.

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Recent Updates

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  • 2026-07: CLINES accepted by BMJ Digital Health & AI.
  • 2026-07: Serving as a Senior Program Committee member for AAAI 2027.
  • 2026-06: Recognized as Outstanding Area Chair for CVPR 2026.
  • 2026-04: Three papers accepted to ICML 2026.
  • 2026-03: Two papers accepted by IEEE TPAMI.


Selected Publications

CATR: Combinatorial-Dependence Audio-Queried Transformer for Audio-Visual Video Segmentation

ACM MM 2023 2023

Kexin Li, Zongxin Yang✉, Lei Chen, Yi Yang, Jun Xiao

Multimodal Perception and Understanding Corresponding Author Best Paper

A Weakly Supervised Transformer for Rare Disease Diagnosis and Subphenotyping from EHRs with Pulmonary Case Studies

Nature Partner Journal Digital Medicine 2026

Kimberly F. Greco*, Zongxin Yang*, Mengyan Li, Han Tong, Sara Morini Sweet, Alon Geva, Kenneth D. Mandl, Benjamin A. Raby, Tianxi Cai

Translational Biomedical AI Co-first Author

Beyond Independent Genes: Learning Module-Inductive Representations for Gene Perturbation Prediction

ICML 2026 2026

Jiafa Ruan, Ruijie Quan, Zongxin Yang✉, Liyang Xu, Yi Yang

Translational Biomedical AI Corresponding Author

CLINES: Clinical LLM-based Information Extraction and Structuring Agent

BMJ Digital Health & AI (Accepted) 2026

Zongxin Yang*, Hongyi Yuan*, Raheel Sayeed*, Amelia Li Min Tan, Enci Cai, Mohammed Moro, Xiudi Li, Huaiyuan Ying, Nicholas Brown, Griffin Weber, and others

Translational Biomedical AI Co-first Author

RefineAnything: Multimodal Region-Specific Refinement for Perfect Local Details

arXiv 2026 2026

Dewei Zhou, You Li, Zongxin Yang, Yi Yang

Controllable Multimodal Generation

Efficient training of large vision models via advanced automated progressive learning

TPAMI 2026 2026

Changlin Li, Jiawei Zhang, Sihao Lin, Zongxin Yang, Junwei Liang, Xiaodan Liang, Xiaojun Chang

Multimodal Perception and Understanding

SELongVLM: Empowering Long Video Language Models with Self-Corrective Clip Selection

TPAMI 2026 2026

Kecheng Zhang, Zongxin Yang, Mingfei Han, Yunzhi Zhuge, Haihong Hao, Changlin Li, Zhihui Li, Xiaojun Chang

Multimodal Perception and Understanding

Are Image-to-Video Models Good Zero-Shot Image Editors?

CVPR 2026 2026

Zechuan Zhang, Zhenyuan Chen, Zongxin Yang, Yi Yang

Controllable Multimodal Generation

Progressive Online Video Understanding with Evidence-Aligned Timing and Transparent Decisions

ICLR 2026 2026

Kecheng Zhang, Zongxin Yang, Mingfei Han, Haihong Hao, Yunzhi Zhuge, Changlin Li, Junhan Zhao, Zhihui Li, Xiaojun Chang

Multimodal Perception and Understanding

BideDPO: Conditional Image Generation with Simultaneous Text and Condition Alignment

ICLR 2026 2026

Dewei Zhou, Mingwei Li, Zongxin Yang, Yu Lu, Yunqiu Xu, Zhizhong Wang, Zeyi Huang, Yi Yang

Controllable Multimodal Generation

Stroke3D: Lifting 2D strokes into rigged 3D model via latent diffusion models

ICLR 2026 2026

Ruisi Zhao, Haoren Zheng, Zongxin Yang, Hehe Fan, Yi Yang

Controllable Multimodal Generation

Insert Anything: Image Insertion via In-Context Editing in DiT

AAAI 2026 (Oral) 2026

Wensong Song, Hong Jiang, Zongxin Yang, Ruijie Quan, Yi Yang

Controllable Multimodal Generation Oral

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Selected Awards

Best Paper Award. ACM MM 2023. [Paper] [News]

1st in the VOTS 2023 challenge. ICCV 2023. [Report]

1st in Semi-Supervised Video Object Segmentation of EPIC-Kitchens Dataset Challenges. CVPR 2023. [Report]

1st in TREK-150 Object Tracking of EPIC-Kitchens Dataset Challenges. CVPR 2023. [Report]

1st in the VOT 2022 real-time segmentation tracking challenge. ECCV 2022. [Report]

1st in the VOT 2022 short-term segmentation tracking challenge. ECCV 2022. [Report]

1st in eBay eProduct Visual Search Challenge. CVPR 2022. [Report]

1st (Track 1) in the 3rd Large-scale Video Object Segmentation Challenge. CVPR 2021. [Report]

1st (Track 3) in the 3rd Large-scale Video Object Segmentation Challenge. CVPR 2021. [Report]

Guo Moruo Scholarship. From USTC, 2018.