--- title: "Guangya Wan · University of Virginia — author profile and papers" description: "Guangya Wan, University of Virginia: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangya-wan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangya-wan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Guangya Wan # Guangya Wan Guangya Wan has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Sheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sheng-li/), [Jie Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-chen/), [Maarten Sap](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-sap/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5093973925) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5093973925) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5093973925) · [8 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5093973925&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangya-wan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 28 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangya-wan/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9439](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/95/#star-9439) 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=Guangya+Wan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Guangya+Wan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Guangya+Wan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Guangya+Wan) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Virginia** Charlottesville · United States 2024–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-virginia/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangya-wan/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangya-wan/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Reasoning Aware Self-Consistency: Leveraging Reasoning Paths for Efficient LLM Sampling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2025-reasoning-aware-self-consistency-leveraging/)** *(2025 · 29 citations)* Self-Consistency (SC) improves LLM reasoning by drawing many chain-of-thought samples and taking a majority vote. 2. **[Disparities in LLM Reasoning Accuracy and Explanations: A Case Study on African American English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2025-disparities-llm-reasoning-accuracy-explanations/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* The paper asks whether large language models reason as well, and explain themselves as well, when a question is written in African American English (AAE) as when it is written in Standard American English (SAE). 3. **[COMPASS: Enhancing Agent Long-Horizon Reasoning with Evolving Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2026-compass-enhancing-agent-long-horizon/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* LLM agents often fail on long-horizon tasks that need many chained tool calls. Small mistakes pile up, and as the history grows the agent misses key evidence, gets distracted, or stops too early instead of changing its plan. The authors argue that context management is the main obstacle. They propose COMPASS, a… ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Sheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sheng-li/) ×3 - [Jie Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-chen/) - [Maarten Sap](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-sap/) - [Rujun Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rujun-han/) - [Saadia Gabriel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saadia-gabriel/) - [Thomas Hartvigsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-hartvigsen/) - [Xiaoqi Ren](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoqi-ren/) ## 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/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 28 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangya-wan/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026