--- title: "Hansi Zeng — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Hansi Zeng, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-zeng/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-zeng/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hansi Zeng # Hansi Zeng Hansi Zeng has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Bowen Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-jin/), [Dakuo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dakuo-wang/), [Dong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-wang/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5020583822) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-2699-8460) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131161497) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5020583822) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020583822) · [191 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020583822&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-zeng/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 311 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-zeng/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4803](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4803) 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=Hansi+Zeng) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hansi+Zeng) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hansi+Zeng) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hansi+Zeng) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2022–2026 · 20 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**University of Utah** Salt Lake City · United States 2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-utah/) 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).[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 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Inverted index · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/inverted-index/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-zeng/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-zeng/year/2025/) ## 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 · 322 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. **[Agentic Conversational Search with Contextualized Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mo-2026-agentic-conversational-search-contextualized-reasoning/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Multi-turn conversational search is usually handled by a fixed "rewrite, retrieve, generate" chain of separately trained components. ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bowen Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-jin/) - [Dakuo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dakuo-wang/) - [Dong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-wang/) - [Fengran Mo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fengran-mo/) - [Hamed Zamani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamed-zamani/) - [Jianshu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-chen/) - [Jiawei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-han/) - [Jinsung Yoon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinsung-yoon/) - [Meng Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-jiang/) - [Sha Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sha-li/) - [Xian Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xian-li/) - [Xin Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-liu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 311 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [92 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hansi-zeng/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026