Through the project, the student will learn how to conduct literature reviews and formulate research questions, and will gain hands-on experience with modern AI techniques relevant to virtual patient modeling, such as medical multimodal foundation models / vision-language models, generative modeling, world-model-inspired patient simulation, and agentic AI. The student will also learn practical research skills including medical data processing, model implementation and training, experimental design, quantitative evaluation, and analysis of model behaviors and limitations.

For students making strong progress, the project may further involve developing a research prototype, designing new methods or evaluation frameworks, and contributing to the preparation of a research manuscript.