--- title: "Cyril Zakka · Stanford Medicine — author profile and papers" description: "Cyril Zakka, Stanford Medicine: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cyril-zakka/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cyril-zakka/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Cyril Zakka # Cyril Zakka Cyril Zakka has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Andres Marafioti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andres-marafioti/), [Anton Lozhkov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anton-lozhkov/), [Eduardo Pontes Reis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduardo-pontes-reis/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5010687578) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8446-2349) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5010687578) · [32 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5010687578) · [718 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5010687578&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cyril-zakka/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 290 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cyril-zakka/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7101](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/72/#star-7101) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Cyril+Zakka) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Cyril+Zakka) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Cyril+Zakka) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Cyril+Zakka) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2023–2026 · 15 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏥**Stanford Medicine** Stanford · United States 2023–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/stanford-medicine/) · [🎓**American University of Beirut** Beirut · Lebanon 2021–2024 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/american-university-of-beirut/) · [🏥**American University of Beirut Medical Center** Beirut · Lebanon 2021–2024 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/00wmm6v75) · [🏢**Hugging Face** New York · United States Employment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/hugging-face/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Vision & language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cyril-zakka/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cyril-zakka/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Med-Flamingo: a Multimodal Medical Few-shot Learner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moor-2023-med-flamingo-multimodal-medical-few/)** *(2023 · 116 citations)* Medical vision-language models usually need fine-tuning on large labeled downstream sets, but clinical data for many tasks is scarce. 2. **[SmolVLM: Redefining small and efficient multimodal models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marafioti-2025-smolvlm-redefining-small-efficient-multimodal/)** *(2025 · 56 citations)* Most compact vision-language models are shrunken copies of large ones. They inherit memory-hungry choices, such as producing many visual tokens per image, which makes them impractical on phones and edge hardware. The SmolVLM authors at Hugging Face and Stanford redesigned a small VLM from scratch. They paired SmolLM2… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Med-Flamingo: a Multimodal Medical Few-shot Learner arXiv:2307.15189**Michael Moor, Qian Huang, Shirley Wu, et al.*2023 · 116 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moor-2023-med-flamingo-multimodal-medical-few/) 2. [**SmolVLM: Redefining small and efficient multimodal models arXiv:2504.05299**Andres Marafioti, Orr Zohar, Miquel Farre, et al.*2025 · 56 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marafioti-2025-smolvlm-redefining-small-efficient-multimodal/) 3. **[MIRIAD: Augmenting LLMs with millions of medical query-response pairs ↗](https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-c-000794594) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Qinyue Zheng et al.*2025 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andres Marafioti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andres-marafioti/) - [Anton Lozhkov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anton-lozhkov/) - [Eduardo Pontes Reis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduardo-pontes-reis/) - [Elie Bakouch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elie-bakouch/) - [Joshua Lochner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-lochner/) - [Jure Leskovec](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jure-leskovec/) - [Loubna Ben Allal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/loubna-ben-allal/) - [Michael Moor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-moor/) - [Michihiro Yasunaga](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michihiro-yasunaga/) - [Nouamane Tazi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nouamane-tazi/) - [Pranav Rajpurkar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranav-rajpurkar/) - [Qian Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qian-huang/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 290 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [67 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cyril-zakka/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026