My name is Patrick Lynch and I am a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Washington University in St. Louis. I work under the advisory of Chenyang Lu as part of the Cyber-Physical Systems Labaratory and the AI for Health Institute. I received my B.S. in computer science and cognitive neuroscience from WashU in 2023, and subsequently completed my M.S. in computer science at WashU in 2024. My research interests include computer vision and its application to neuroimaging, with a particular emphasis on representation learning.

Research

• Wang, Ruiqi & Gao, Peiqi & Lynch, Patrick & Liu, Tingjun & Lee, Yejin & Baum, Carolyn & Connor, Lisa & Lu, Chenyang. (2025). CHEF-VL: Detecting Cognitive Sequencing Errors in Cooking with Vision-language Models. Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies. 9. 1-35. 10.1145/3770714.

• Lee, Y., Wang, R., Lynch, P., Gao, P., Baum, M. C., Lu, C., & Connor, L. T. (accepted) Developing an artificial intelligence-based smart kitchen system to detect functional cognitive errors during a simple cooking task. Oral presentation at the 19th World Federation of Occupational Therapy Congress (WFOT), Bangkok, Thailand.