Zhiwen (Jerome) You
Doctoral Student
PhD, Information Sciences, Illinois (in progress)
MS, Information Management, Illinois
Research focus
My interests are broadly in natural language processing, bias/fairness of large language models (LLMs), and AI for health. I am particularly interested in developing transparent and trustworthy language models for clinical and biomedical applications. Some of my current focuses include explainable LLM-based clinical reasoning , factual consistency evaluation, and gender bias probing in LLMs.
Honors and Awards
- Excellent Instructor (IS 504), Illinois, Spring 2025
- Graduate College's Conference Presentation Award, Fall 2024
- Excellent Instructor (IS 202), Illinois, Fall 2023
Advisors
Publications & Papers
For a complete list of publications, visit Zhiwen You's Google Scholar profile.
You, Z., & Guo, Y. (2025). PlainQAFact: Retrieval-augmented Factual Consistency Evaluation Metric for Biomedical Plain Language Summarization. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.08890.
Zhiwen You, Kanyao Han, Haotian Zhu, Bertram Ludaescher, and Jana Diesner. 2024. SciPrompt: Knowledge-augmented Prompting for Fine-grained Categorization of Scientific Topics. In Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 6087–6104, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.350
Zhiwen You, Shruthan Radhakrishna, Shufan Ming, and Halil Kilicoglu. 2024. UIUC_BioNLP at BioLaySumm: An Extract-then-Summarize Approach Augmented with Wikipedia Knowledge for Biomedical Lay Summarization. In Proceedings of the 23rd Workshop on Biomedical Natural Language Processing, pages 132–143, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.bionlp-1.11
Zhiwen You*, HaeJin Lee*, Shubhanshu Mishra, Sullam Jeoung, Apratim Mishra, Jinseok Kim, and Jana Diesner. 2024. Beyond Binary Gender Labels: Revealing Gender Bias in LLMs through Gender-Neutral Name Predictions. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing (GeBNLP), pages 255–268, Bangkok, Thailand. Association for Computational Linguistics. DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.gebnlp-1.16
* indicates equal contribution.