--- title: "Aidong Zhang · University of Virginia — author profile and papers" description: "Aidong Zhang, University of Virginia: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 56 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aidong-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aidong-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Aidong Zhang # Aidong Zhang Aidong Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Guangzhi Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangzhi-xiong/), [Qiao Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiao-jin/), [Zhiyong Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyong-lu/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5013588572) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9723-3246) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52927763) · [**h-index 56**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5013588572) · [535 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013588572) · [12,102 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013588572&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aidong-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 141 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aidong-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4536](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/46/#star-4536) 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=Aidong+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Aidong+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Aidong+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Aidong+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Virginia** Charlottesville · United States 2019–2026 · 117 papersEmployment · Professor, Computer Science and Biomedical Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-virginia/) · [🎓**University at Buffalo, State University of New York** Buffalo · United States 1994–2023 · 305 papersEmployment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-at-buffalo-state-university-of-new-york/) · [🏥**First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University** Guangzhou · China 2009–2022 · 12 papers](https://ror.org/05d5vvz89) · [🎓**State University of New York** Albany · United States 2001–2016 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/state-university-of-new-york/) · [🔬**Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences** Shanghai · China 2019–2024 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/04ejmmq75) · [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 1993–1994 · 3 papersEducation until 1994](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) · [🎓**Jinan University** Guangzhou · China 2019–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/jinan-university/) · [🎓**Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College** Beijing · China 2020 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02drdmm93) · [🔬**Institute of Basic Medical Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences** Beijing 2020 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/055qbch41) · [🎓**University of Kentucky** Lexington · United States 1989–1990 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-kentucky/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 23 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 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Retrieval-augmented generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/retrieval-augmented-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aidong-zhang/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Benchmarking Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Medicine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiong-2024-benchmarking-retrieval-augmented-generation-medicine/)** *(2024 · 430 citations)* Large language models answer medical questions well, but they can produce confident errors and miss recent clinical knowledge. 2. **[Improving Scientific Hypothesis Generation with Knowledge Grounded Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiong-2024-improving-scientific-hypothesis-generation-knowledge/)** *(2024 · 16 citations)* LLMs can propose new research directions, but they often produce convincing yet false claims. In science, where each reasoning step must be checkable, this is a serious problem. The authors present KG-CoI (Knowledge Grounded Chain of Ideas), a system that anchors LLM hypothesis generation in structured knowledge… ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Guangzhi Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangzhi-xiong/) ×2 - [Qiao Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiao-jin/) - [Zhiyong Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyong-lu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 141 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [36 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aidong-zhang/cited-by/). 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