--- title: "Hejia Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Hejia Zhang, University of San Diego: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hejia-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hejia-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hejia Zhang # Hejia Zhang Hejia Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Barlas Oguz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barlas-oguz/), [Beibin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beibin-li/), [Han Fang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-fang/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5047725424) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5222-5277) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92658732) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5047725424) · [83 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047725424) · [1,242 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047725424&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hejia-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 184 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hejia-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6544](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/66/#star-6544) 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=Hejia+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hejia+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hejia+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hejia+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 2021–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) · [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) · [🏥**UC San Diego Health System** San Diego · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/01kbfgm16) · [🎓**University of San Diego** San Diego · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/03jbbze48) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2019–2024 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2015–2022 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) · [🏥**Beijing Children’s Hospital** Beijing · China 2019–2025 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/04skmn292) · [🎓**Capital Medical University** Beijing · China 2019–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/capital-medical-university/) · [🎓**Tianjin University** Tianjin · China 2017–2021 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tianjin-university/) · [🎓**Jilin University** Changchun · China 2018–2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/jilin-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 11 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).[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/) · [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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hejia-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hejia-zhang/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Effective Long-Context Scaling of Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiong-2023-effective-long-context-scaling-foundation/)** *(2023 · 184 citations)* In 2023, strong long-input handling was mostly available through proprietary APIs. Earlier open attempts to extend context were usually judged only by perplexity or synthetic probes, and they often lost quality on short tasks. This Meta paper introduces Llama 2 Long, a family of 7B–70B models built by continuing to… 2. **[AdvancedIF: Rubric-Based Benchmarking and Reinforcement Learning for Advancing LLM Instruction Following](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2026-advancedif-rubric-based-benchmarking-reinforcement/)** *(2026 · 9 citations)* LLMs still struggle with demanding instruction following (IF): prompts with many stacked constraints, instructions carried across long conversations, and directives in system prompts. ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Barlas Oguz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barlas-oguz/) - [Beibin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/beibin-li/) - [Han Fang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-fang/) - [Jingyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingyu-liu/) - [Karishma Mandyam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karishma-mandyam/) - [Louis Martin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louis-martin/) - [Madian Khabsa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/madian-khabsa/) - [Prajjwal Bhargava](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prajjwal-bhargava/) - [Rashi Rungta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rashi-rungta/) - [Rui Hou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-hou/) - [Shengjie Bi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shengjie-bi/) - [Shishir G Patil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shishir-g-patil/) ## 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 184 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [71 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hejia-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026