--- title: "Brian Yan — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Brian Yan, Carnegie Mellon University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-yan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-yan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Brian Yan # Brian Yan Brian Yan has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Boris Ginsburg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boris-ginsburg/), [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/), [Injy Hamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/injy-hamed/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5021201726) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5021201726) · [37 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021201726) · [349 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021201726&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-yan/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 26 times in our library · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11914](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/120/#star-11914) 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=Brian+Yan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Brian+Yan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Brian+Yan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Brian+Yan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2021–2026 · 31 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brian-yan/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CS-YODAS: A Mined Dataset of In-the-Wild Code-Switched Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2026-cs-yodas-mined-dataset-wild/)** *(2026)* Large multilingual speech corpora usually tag each utterance with one language and filter out mixed-language material. 2. **[Hierarchical Policy Optimization for Simultaneous Translation of Unbounded Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ouyang-2026-hierarchical-policy-optimization-simultaneous-translation/)** *(2026)* Simultaneous speech translation (SST) systems built on LLMs can handle unbounded, hours-long audio efficiently when framed as a multi-turn dialogue that reuses the KV cache. ## All works 5 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. **[CTC Alignments Improve Autoregressive Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.eacl-main.119/) Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Brian Yan et al.*2023 · 46 citations* 2. **[CMU's IWSLT 2024 Simultaneous Speech Translation System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.iwslt-1.20/) Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2024) · no summary yet**Xi Xu et al.*2024 · 4 citations* 3. **[Nvidia-Nemo's WMT 2025 Metrics Shared Task Submission ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.wmt-1.66/) Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Machine Translation · no summary yet**Brian Yan et al.*2025 · 1 citation* 4. **[CS-YODAS: A Mined Dataset of In-the-Wild Code-Switched Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2026-cs-yodas-mined-dataset-wild/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Brian Yan, Qingzheng Wang, Matthew Wiesner, et al.*2026* 5. **[Hierarchical Policy Optimization for Simultaneous Translation of Unbounded Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ouyang-2026-hierarchical-policy-optimization-simultaneous-translation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Siqi Ouyang, Shuoyang Ding, Oleksii Hrinchuk, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Boris Ginsburg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boris-ginsburg/) - [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/) - [Injy Hamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/injy-hamed/) - [Lei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/) - [Shuoyang Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuoyang-ding/) - [Siqi Ouyang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siqi-ouyang/) - [Thomas Hain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-hain/) - [Vitaly Lavrukhin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vitaly-lavrukhin/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - Proceedings of the 17th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2024) - Proceedings of the Tenth Conference on Machine Translation ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 26 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). 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