--- title: "Howard Chen · Princeton University — author profile and papers" description: "Howard Chen, Princeton University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 27 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-chen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-chen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Howard Chen # Howard Chen Howard Chen has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Danqi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danqi-chen/), [John Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-yang/), [Karthik Narasimhan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karthik-narasimhan/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101444574) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8628-7847) · [**h-index 27**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101444574) · [130 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101444574) · [4,373 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101444574&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-chen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 494 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-chen/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3400](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3400) 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=Howard+Chen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Howard+Chen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Howard+Chen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Howard+Chen) ## Affiliations [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2021–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Chicago** Chicago · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-chicago/) · [🎓**University of Iowa** Iowa City · United States 2012–2017 · 18 papers](https://ror.org/036jqmy94) · [🎓**Auburn University** Auburn · United States 2016–2023 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/auburn-university/) · [🎓**University of Alabama in Huntsville** Huntsville · United States 2023–2025 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/02zsxwr40) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2004–2010 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🏢**United Microelectronics** Hsinchu · Taiwan 2009–2016 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/0580qje17) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 2004–2012 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🏢**Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA** Rahway · United States 1991–2010 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/02891sr49) · [🎓**University of Minnesota** Minneapolis · United States 2003–2005 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 15 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 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 [**2023** 1 paper What In-Context Learning “Learns” In-Context: Disentangling Task Recognition and Task Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2023-what-context-learning-learns-context/) · [**2022** 1 paper WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2022-webshop-towards-scalable-real-world/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2022-webshop-towards-scalable-real-world/)** *(2022 · 387 citations)* WebShop is a benchmark for agents that must read natural-language goals and act on web pages. Earlier interactive benchmarks either used toy language or needed heavy human effort to collect data and judge outcomes. WebShop simulates an online store with 1.18 million products scraped from amazon.com and 12,087… 2. **[What In-Context Learning “Learns” In-Context: Disentangling Task Recognition and Task Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2023-what-context-learning-learns-context/)** *(2023 · 100 citations)* The paper asks what language models actually do when they solve tasks from a few in-context examples. Do they simply identify a task they already know from pre-training, or do they acquire new input-label associations from the prompt? The authors separate these into two abilities. Task recognition (TR) means… ## All works 6 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. **[WebShop: Towards Scalable Real-World Web Interaction with Grounded Language Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2022-webshop-towards-scalable-real-world/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Shunyu Yao, Howard Chen, John Yang, et al.*2022 · 387 citations* 2. **[CharXiv: Charting Gaps in Realistic Chart Understanding in Multimodal LLMs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.18521) arXiv:2406.18521 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Zirui Wang et al.*2024 · 116 citations* 3. **[What In-Context Learning “Learns” In-Context: Disentangling Task Recognition and Task Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2023-what-context-learning-learns-context/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jane Pan, Tianyu Gao, Howard Chen, et al.*2023 · 100 citations* 4. **[Language Models as Science Tutors](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11111) arXiv:2402.11111 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Alexis Chevalier et al.*2024 · 29 citations* 5. **[COLLIE: Systematic Construction of Constrained Text Generation Tasks](https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.08689) arXiv:2307.08689 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Shunyu Yao et al.*2023 · 23 citations* 6. **[Statutory Construction and Interpretation for Artificial Intelligence](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01186) arXiv:2509.01186 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Luxi He et al.*2025 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Danqi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danqi-chen/) - [John Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-yang/) - [Karthik Narasimhan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karthik-narasimhan/) - [Shunyu Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shunyu-yao/) - [Tianyu Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-gao/) ## 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 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 494 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [50 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-chen/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026