Konghao Zhao

About

I am a second-year CS PhD at the University of Southern California, advised by Ruishan Liu in the Laboratory for Machine Learning, Health and Biomedicine. I obtained a B.S. degree with Magna Cum Laude in CS and Math at WFU, where I was fortunate to conduct research as an undergraduate researcher advised by Natalia Khuri. My current research focuses on AI in healthcare. Specifically, I am building system of LLM agents to perform patient-trial matching and design phase 1 & 3 oncology clinical trial. I am also working on protecting and attacking the data privacy in VLM.

Experience

• PhD Summer Intern - Clinicial Data Science at Boehringer Ingelheim
  May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

• PHD Researcher at University of Southern California
  Aug 2024 - Present · 1 yr 11 mos

• Statistics Co-Op - Clinical Data Science at Boehringer Ingelheim
  Sep 2025 - Jan 2026 · 5 mos

  Global ExpMed Data Analysis and Biostat.

• Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States)
  • Undergraduate Researcher
    May 2021 - May 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo

  • URECA Scholar
    May 2022 - Aug 2022 · 4 mos

    Wake Forest Research Fellowships (WFRF) award by URECA center

• Student Trainee, Presenter, and Contestant at SC Conference Series
  Nov 2021 - Dec 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  The International Conference for High-Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis - SC23 Competed in Student Cluster Competition (IndySCC) (Ranked 4th overall and 1st in US) - SC22 Presented in ACM SRC and served as Student Volunteer - SC21 Selected to HPC Immersion Program