Lingwei Zhang

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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

  1. Rethinking the Development of Large Language Models from the Causal Perspective: A Legal Text Prediction Case Study
    Haotian Chen, Lingwei Zhang, Yiran Liu, and 1 more author
    Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Mar 2024
  2. MEDMKG: Benchmarking Medical Knowledge Exploitation with Multimodal Knowledge Graph
    Xiaochen Wang, Yuan Zhong, Lingwei Zhang, and 3 more authors
    Mar 2026
    ACM MM 2026
  3. IQAR: Intent-aware Query Augmentation for Zero-shot Retrieval
    Lingwei Zhang, Jiaqi Wang, and Fenglong Ma
    2026
    In submission
  4. ContactVLA: Enhancing Dexterous Manipulation with Predictive Tactile Representations
    Lingwei Zhang, Xinmin Fang, Zhengxiong Li, and 1 more author
    2026
    In submission