Yuekai Xu

Hi! I’m an incoming CS PhD student at UCLA, advised by Prof Yuzhe Yang.

Previously, I obtained my BS degree from the University of Washington, where I double majored in Computer Science (with honors) and Applied Mathematics. I am fortunated to be co-advised by Professor Sheng Wang and Professor Linda G Shapiro, and pleased mentored by Zixuan Liu in UW CSE.

My research interests are broadly in AI4Science, including the fields of machine learning, computer vision, and natural language processing. I am especially passionate about vision-language pretraining, multimodal learning, foundation models, and their applications in biomedicine and clinical medicine.

🔥 News

• [Jun 2025] Our paper GrinAdapt: Source-free Multi-Target Domain Adaptation for Retinal Vessel Segmentation has been accepted to MICCAI 2025

📑 Publications

* Equal Contribution   

GrinAdapt: Source-free Multi-Target Domain Adaptation for Retinal Vessel Segmentation
Zixuan Liu*, Aaron Honjaya*, Yuekai Xu*, Yi Zhang, Hefu Pan, Xin Wang, Linda G. Shapiro, Sheng Wang, Ruikang K. Wang
MICCAI 2025

📖 Academic Services

• UW CSE 576: Computer Vision (Grad, Spring 2026)

🎓 Education

• University of California, Los Angeles, 2026 - 2031 (Expected)
  Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science
  
  • Advised by Prof Yuzhe Yang
• University of Washington, 2022 - 2026
  B.S. in Computer Science Honors, AMATH
  
  • Dean’s List (All Quarters & Years), Mary Gates Research Scholarship 2025

🏅 Competitions & Projects

• INRIX Amazon University Hack 2023, ParkinGPT [website]
• GPTCheck: AI-Generated Text Detection Website [website]
• Kaggle - LLM Science Exam, Silver Medal (Top 4%) [website]
• Kaggle - CAFA 5 Protein Function Prediction, Silver Medal (Top 3%) [website]
• Kaggle -LLM Detect Al Generated Text, Bronze Medal (Top 8%) [website]