--- title: "Cheng Tan · Northeastern University — author profile and papers" description: "Cheng Tan, Northeastern University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-tan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-tan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Cheng Tan # Cheng Tan Cheng Tan has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Adam Fourney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-fourney/), [Dongxu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongxu-zhang/), [Eduardo Salinas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduardo-salinas/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102759092) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1420-5125) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102759092) · [35 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102759092) · [272 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102759092&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-tan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 42 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-tan/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9493](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/95/#star-9493) 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=Cheng+Tan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Cheng+Tan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Cheng+Tan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Cheng+Tan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2023–2025 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) · [🎓**Universiti Sains Malaysia** George Town · Malaysia 2023–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/02rgb2k63) · [🎓**Aerospace Information Research Institute** Beijing · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/aerospace-information-research-institute/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2017–2019 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2012–2015 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🎓**Fudan University** Shanghai · China 2012–2014 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 8 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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-tan/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-tan/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fourney-2024-magentic-one-generalist-multi/)** *(2024 · 54 citations)* General-purpose AI agents have to handle varied multi-step tasks, such as browsing the web, working with files, and writing and running code, rather than performing well in only one narrow domain. 2. **[Chain-of-Thought Compression Should Not Be Blind: V-Skip for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning via Dual-Path Anchoring](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-chain-thought-compression-should-not/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) rationales make Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) more accurate, but they also make them slow and memory-hungry. ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Adam Fourney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-fourney/) - [Dongxu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongxu-zhang/) - [Eduardo Salinas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduardo-salinas/) - [Friederike Niedtner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/friederike-niedtner/) - [Gagan Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gagan-bansal/) - [Grace Proebsting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/grace-proebsting/) - [Hussein Mozannar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hussein-mozannar/) - [Peter Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-chang/) - [Yiding Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiding-sun/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 42 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [14 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-tan/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026