--- title: "Chengfeng Mao — author profile and papers" description: "Chengfeng Mao, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2023), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengfeng-mao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengfeng-mao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Chengfeng Mao # Chengfeng Mao Chengfeng Mao has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [AmirAli Bagher Zadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amirali-bagher-zadeh/), [Ehsan Hoque](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsan-hoque/), [Louis-Philippe Morency](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louis-philippe-morency/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5055221257) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-6679-7764) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5055221257) · [13 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055221257) · [867 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055221257&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengfeng-mao/#papers) · [🔗 117 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengfeng-mao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2494](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/25/#star-2494) 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=Chengfeng+Mao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chengfeng+Mao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chengfeng+Mao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chengfeng+Mao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2018–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2019–2025 · 3 papers](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. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 7[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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 2[Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2023-survey-large-language-models-medicine/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rahman-2020-integrating-multimodal-information-large-pretrained/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Integrating Multimodal Information in Large Pretrained Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rahman-2020-integrating-multimodal-information-large-pretrained/)** *(2020 · 743 citations)* Pretrained Transformers such as BERT and XLNet accept only text. Applying them to multimodal language, where spoken words come with voice and facial cues, has therefore meant one of two compromises: discarding the nonverbal signals, or using the models only to produce word features for a separate fusion network. The… 2. **[A Survey of Large Language Models in Medicine: Progress, Application, and Challenge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2023-survey-large-language-models-medicine/)** *(2023 · 87 citations)* This survey maps how large language models are being adapted to medicine. It covers how they are built, how well they perform, and what blocks their clinical use. Earlier reviews mostly described ChatGPT-style applications through small case studies. They offered little guidance on constructing medical models or… ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [AmirAli Bagher Zadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amirali-bagher-zadeh/) - [Ehsan Hoque](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsan-hoque/) - [Louis-Philippe Morency](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louis-philippe-morency/) ## 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…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 117 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengfeng-mao/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026