--- title: "Huanzhi Mao — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Huanzhi Mao, University of California, Berkeley: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huanzhi-mao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huanzhi-mao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Huanzhi Mao # Huanzhi Mao Huanzhi Mao has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Alejandro Cuadron](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alejandro-cuadron/), [Dacheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dacheng-li/), [Shu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shu-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5136237313) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5136237313) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5136237313) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5136237313&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huanzhi-mao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 39 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huanzhi-mao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10009](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/101/#star-10009) 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=Huanzhi+Mao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Huanzhi+Mao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Huanzhi+Mao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Huanzhi+Mao) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huanzhi-mao/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huanzhi-mao/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Danger of Overthinking: Examining the Reasoning-Action Dilemma in Agentic Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cuadron-2025-danger-overthinking-examining-reasoning-action/)** *(2025 · 41 citations)* Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) such as o1, QwQ and DeepSeek-R1 perform well on static benchmarks. In agentic settings, however, they must keep choosing between acting in the environment and continuing to reason internally. The authors call this the Reasoning-Action Dilemma. They study "overthinking," where a model… 2. **[Assertion-Conditioned Compliance: A Provenance-Aware Vulnerability in Multi-Turn Tool-Calling Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/waqas-2026-assertion-conditioned-compliance-provenance-aware/)** *(2026)* Tool-calling LLM agents are often judged by leaderboard accuracy. That score says little about how they behave when a conversation contains plausible but wrong information. The authors define Assertion-Conditioned Compliance (A-CC): an agent accepts a false claim and lets it change which functions it actually… ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alejandro Cuadron](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alejandro-cuadron/) - [Dacheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dacheng-li/) - [Shu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shu-liu/) - [Siyuan Zhuang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siyuan-zhuang/) - [Tian Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tian-xia/) - [Wenjie Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-ma/) - [Xingyao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingyao-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 39 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huanzhi-mao/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026