My name is Yiming Zhang (张一鸣 in Chinese), currently a master student at Tsuda group of Computational Biolofy and Medical Sciences in The University of Tokyo supervised by Prof. Koji Tsuda. I graduated from Okumura-Funakoshi group of Institute of Innovative Research in Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo Tech), supervised by Prof. Manabu Okumura.
My research interests include:
- Artificial Intelligence-based Drug Discovery
- AI4Science, Computational Biology, AI guided Protein / biomolecules Design
- AI4healthcare, health informatics
🔥 News
- 2025.05 🎉🎉 NbBench is submitted to Arxiv.
- 2025.05 🎉🎉 GenSPARC is open at Research Square
- 2024.12 🎉🎉 ProtHyena about protein language model is accepted by iMetaOmics.
- 2023.10: 🎉🎉 My work Self-Sampling Meta SAM: Enhancing Few-shot Medical Image Segmentation with Meta-Learning was accepted by IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2024! Thanks for all collaborators!
📝 Publications
Yiming Zhang, Atsuhiro Tomita, Mizuki Takemoto, Ryuichiro Ishitani
NbBench: Benchmarking Language Models for Comprehensive Nanobody Tasks
Yiming Zhang, Koji Tsuda
ProtHyena: A fast and efficient foundation protein language model at single amino acid resolution
Yiming Zhang, Bian Bian, Manabu Oku
Self-Sampling Meta SAM: Enhancing Few-shot Medical Image Segmentation with Meta-Learning
Yiming Zhang, Tianang Leng, Kun Han, Xiaohui Xie
🔬 Research Experience
- 2023.12 - 2024.04, Yale University, Research Assistant, advised by Dr. Xiangru Tang.
- *2023.12 - 2025.03, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Undergraduate Research, supervised by Prof. Manabu Oku.
- 2023.10 - 2025.05, the University of Tokyo, Research Assistant. Works on Deep learning modelling for translation velocity, mRNA design and optimization
- 2023.06 - 2023.09, University of California, Irvine, Research Intern, supervised by Prof. Xiaohui Xie.
💻 Internships
- 2025.06 - now, SB Intuitions, Tokyo, Japan. Research Engineer@AI4Science team.
- 2025.05 - 2025.06, Ivry Corp, Tokyo, Japan. AI Engineering.
- 2024.12 - 2025.03, Huawei Japan Tokyo Research Center, Tokyo, Japan. AI Engineer@Camera AI team.
- 2024.08 - 2025.03, Preferred Networks, Tokyo, Japan. Research Engineer@Drug Discovery team
- 2023.09 - 2023.10, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan. Supervised by SOCIOCOM group, Prof. Eiji Aramaki
📖 Educations
- 2025.04 - now, master student in the Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, The University of Tokyo.
- 2021.04 - 2025.03, undergraduate student in the Department of Information and Communications Technology, Tokyo Institute of Technology.
🎖 Honors and Awards
- 2023.04 - 2024.04 Outstanding Performance Award Scholarship, Tokyo Tech
- 2021.10 - 2023.04 Best Performance Award Scholarship, Tokyo Tech