Scholar
Jike Zhong
Google Scholar ID: s_KkDawAAAAJ
University of Southern California
Citations & Impact
Citations
140
H-index
7
i10-index
5
Publications
11
Co-authors
6
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Publications: 'To Think Or Not Think' accepted as Spotlight at NeurIPS 2025; new paper on autoregressive motion prediction will appear as Oral in MICCAI '25 workshops; 'Med-R1', reinforcement finetuning for medical MLLM reasoning; benchmarking multimodal performance on EEE accepted at CVPR '25; vision-language finetuning accepted at EMNLP '24.
Research Experience
- Worked for a year with the data science team at Salesforce on LLM products; spent some time at CCVL lab at Johns Hopkins University, supervised by Prof. Alan Yuille.
Education
- PhD: University of Southern California (USC), advised by Prof. Konstantinos Psounis and Prof. Sai Praneeth Karimireddy; Bachelor's: Ohio State University (OSU, 2019-2022), advised by Prof. Wei-Lun Chao and Dr. Hong-You Chen.
Background
- Research Interests: Multimodal foundation models, visual and multimodal reasoning, post-training with reinforcement learning, personalized intelligence. Summary: Deeply interested in enhancing fundamental understanding of large models, from data curation to pre-training and post-training.
Miscellany
- Big aviation fan, loves anything related to it such as flying, photography, model collection, etc.; also enjoys classical piano and opera, especially works by Franz Liszt (Hungarian Rhapsody) and Bellini (I Puritani).
