--- title: "Hamed Zamani · Amherst College — author profile and papers" description: "Hamed Zamani, Amherst College: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 36 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamed-zamani/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamed-zamani/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hamed Zamani # Hamed Zamani Hamed Zamani has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, 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 [Bowen Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-jin/), [Dong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-wang/), [Jiawei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-han/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101457713) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0800-3340) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130800239) · [**h-index 36**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101457713) · [197 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101457713) · [4,464 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101457713&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamed-zamani/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 468 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamed-zamani/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3226](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/33/#star-3226) 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=Hamed+Zamani) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hamed+Zamani) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hamed+Zamani) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hamed+Zamani) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2016–2026 · 148 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**Amherst College** Amherst Center · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/028vqfs63) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2020–2024 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Tehran** Tehran · Iran 2014–2019 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-tehran/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## 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).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper Hamed Zamani's papers of 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jin-2025-search-r1-training-llms-reason/) · [**2024** 1 paper Hamed Zamani's papers of 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/salemi-2024-lamp-when-large-language-models/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jin-2025-search-r1-training-llms-reason/)** *(2025 · 303 citations)* Large language models often need outside, current knowledge, but simply prompting them to use a search engine works poorly because they were never trained to interact with one. 2. **[LaMP: When Large Language Models Meet Personalization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/salemi-2024-lamp-when-large-language-models/)** *(2024 · 239 citations)* Most NLP benchmarks evaluate models the same way for every user, so there has been little infrastructure for studying how LLMs can tailor outputs to individuals. ## 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. [**Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2503.09516**Bowen Jin, Hansi Zeng, Zhenrui Yue, et al.*2025 · 303 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jin-2025-search-r1-training-llms-reason/) 2. **[LaMP: When Large Language Models Meet Personalization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/salemi-2024-lamp-when-large-language-models/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Alireza Salemi, Sheshera Mysore, Michael Bendersky, et al.*2024 · 239 citations* 3. **[Evaluating Retrieval Quality in Retrieval-Augmented Generation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13781) arXiv:2404.13781 · no summary yet**Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani*2024 · 181 citations* 4. **[Personalized Generation In Large Model Era: A Survey ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1201/) Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yiyan Xu et al.*2025 · 24 citations* 5. **[LaMP-QA: A Benchmark for Personalized Long-form Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.60/) Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani*2025 · 11 citations* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bowen Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-jin/) - [Dong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-wang/) - [Jiawei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-han/) - [Jinsung Yoon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinsung-yoon/) - [Michael Bendersky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-bendersky/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) - Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 468 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamed-zamani/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026