Yilin Xu

About

I am a first-year PhD student in the Computer Science and Informatics (CSI) program at Emory University, advised by Prof. Youngjoong Kwon. My research focuses on computer graphics and 4D reconstruction. Prior to this, I worked on natural language processing and AI for healthcare. My broad interest is in useful ai for medical settings. Before joining Emory, I received my M.S. from Johns Hopkins University and my B.S. from Brandeis University.

Selected Publications

• Did the Model Use That? Counterfactual Training Boosts Self-Attribution in Language Models

  Cyrus Zhou, Jiacheng Sang, Yilin Xu, Yufei Jin, Monica S. Lam

  Preprint, 2026

  arXiv · Code

• Accountable AI with Grounded, Faithful, Consistent, Actionable Rationales: A Case Study in Clinical Trial Matching with VERDICT

  Cyrus Zhou, Yufei Jin, Yilin Xu, Yu-Chiang Wang, Chieh-Ju Chao, Monica S. Lam

  EMNLP Main, 2026

  Outstanding Paper Award (one of 23 out of 17,669 submissions)

  arXiv · Code

• SatIR: Scalable High-Recall Constraint-Satisfaction-Based Information Retrieval for Clinical Trials Matching

  Cyrus Zhou, Yufei Jin*, Yilin Xu*, Yu-Chiang Wang, Chieh-Ju Chao, Monica S. Lam

  COLM, 2026

  arXiv · Project Page · Code

* Equal contribution.

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Informatics and Biomedical Informatics Emory University 2026-Present
• M.S. in Biomedical Engineering Johns Hopkins University 2024-2025
• B.S. in Neuroscience and B.S in Computer Science Brandeis University 2020-2024