I am a PhD student from University of Washington, advised by Prof. Sheng Wang. Previously, I received my M.Eng. degree from UC Berkeley in 2024 and my B.S. degree from Peking University in 2022. I was also the second place(2/983000) of the Henan College Entrance Exam in 2018.

My research focuses on building foundation models for biomedicine, facilitating scientific discovery with deep learning techniques.

Here’s my latest CV.

Contact: yongkang@uw.edu

News

• Yongkang completed a research internship at Microsoft AI, Redmond (Jun 2026 – Sep 2026).
• Yongkang became a reviewer of RECOMB 2025.
• Yongkang became a reviewer of RECOMB 2026.
• Yongkang became a reviewer of Genome Research.

Experience

• Research Intern, Microsoft AI, Redmond (Jun 2026 – Sep 2026). Designed EvoClinician, a self-evolving framework that builds fully interpretable and auditable medical intelligence from multimodal EHR data, achieving state-of-the-art performance over EHR foundation models across diverse clinical tasks.
• Research Scientist Intern, GE HealthCare, Seattle (May 2024 – Aug 2024). Developed a multi-agent system for single-cell analysis, enabling low-code solutions in the field.

Selected Honors and Awards

• Second Place in Henan College Entrance Exam (out of 983,000 students), 2018
• First Prize of Freshmen Scholarship, 2018
• Merit Undergraduate Research, 2022
• Yuanpei College Academic Star, 2022
• Yuanpei College Outstanding Graduate, 2022