Research output

Publications

Papers in medical AI, large language models, and neuro-imaging — spanning journals and top ML conferences.

How Much Data Does This Study Actually Need? Measuring Minimum Necessary Exposure for AI on Sensitive Human Data

G.C. Oliveira, D.K. Pham, D. Mehta, A. Yoshida, S. Sim Zi Yang, D. Kumar, Z. Ge, D. Dwyer · AAAI 2027 · 2026

Co-author

Under Review

NeuroCast: Neural Decoding Benchmarks for Naturalistic Speech in Human ECoG

Z. Paris, A. Bhattacharjee, A. L. Lee, J. Han, D. D. Han, G. Peeper, S. Sim Zi Yang, L. Niekerken, Z. Zada, P. S. Scotti, J. Cha, U. Hasson, I. Jalon · Manuscript · 2026

Co-author in collaboration with

Princeton University

In Preparation

Medmarks: A Comprehensive Open-Source LLM Benchmark Suite for Medical Tasks

B. Warner, R. S. Grandhi, M. Kieffer, A. Ouraq, … S. Sim Zi Yang, … C. Lane, P. S. Scotti, T. M. Abraham · NeurIPS 2026 (Evaluations & Datasets Track) · ICML 2026 FM4LS Workshop (Poster) · 2026

Co-author

Cited by OpenAI

Accepted

Scaling Vision Transformers for Functional MRI with Flat Maps

C. Lane, M. Tripathy, L. K. Murali, R. S. Grandhi, S. Sim Zi Yang, S. Gijsen, … P. S. Scotti · ICML 2026 (Main) · 2026

Co-author

Accepted

Forensic Sex Estimation from Skull and Neck Radiographs Using Interpretable Convolutional Neural Networks

S. Sim Zi Yang, E. Chung, S.C. Lim, T. Chen, M.F. Goh, W.L. Ng, H. Abouzahir, S.R. Sirasanagandla, K.W. Choy · Forensic Imaging · 2026

1st Author in collaboration with

Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM)

Accepted

Critique of Impure Reason: Unveiling the reasoning behaviour of medical Large Language Models

S. Sim Zi Yang, T. Chen · eLife 14:e106187 (Q1) · 2025

1st Author

Published

Enhancing Medical Summarization with Parameter Efficient Fine Tuning on Local CPUs

S. Sim Zi Yang, M.F. Goh, W.C. Yap, Z.Y. Diong · IEEE ICECCE 2024 · 2024

1st Author in collaboration with

Intel Malaysia

Oral Presentation

Conference Presentations

Simpler is Stronger: Interpretable Machine Learning Confirms Alzheimer's Biomarkers from CSF Proteomics at Clinical Sample Sizes

S. Sim Zi Yang, J. Y. Lim, M. S. Tan · InCoB / ISCB-APAC 2026 · 2026

1st Author

Accepted · Oral