Lingwei Zhang
I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before that, I earned my M.S. in Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University and B.Eng. in Computer Science and Engineering at Tsinghua University, Yao Class.
My research focuses on multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and Vision–Language–Action (VLA) models, emphasizing multimodal grounding and reliable decision-making for embodied AI.
selected publications
- MEDMKG: Benchmarking Medical Knowledge Exploitation with Multimodal Knowledge GraphMar 2026ACM MM 2026
- IQAR: Intent-aware Query Augmentation for Zero-shot Retrieval2026In submission
- ContactVLA: Enhancing Dexterous Manipulation with Predictive Tactile Representations2026In submission