--- title: "Jian Zhu — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Jian Zhu, University of British Columbia: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-zhu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-zhu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jian Zhu # Jian Zhu Jian Zhu 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/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/), [Farhan Samir](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/farhan-samir/), [Shenran Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shenran-wang/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139781807) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139781807) · [5 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139781807) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139781807&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-zhu/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 6 times in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10285](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/103/#star-10285) 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=Jian+Zhu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jian+Zhu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jian+Zhu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jian+Zhu) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) 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 7 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/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [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/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [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/jian-zhu/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-zhu/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ZIPA: A family of efficient models for multilingual phone recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2025-zipa-family-efficient-models-multilingual/)** *(2025 · 7 citations)* The paper addresses universal phone recognition: converting speech in any language into broad IPA transcriptions, which supports language documentation and other speech tasks. 2. **[Understanding In-Context Learning Beyond Transformers: An Investigation of State Space and Hybrid Architectures](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-understanding-context-learning-beyond-transformers/)** *(2026)* Mechanistic work on in-context learning (ICL) has so far explained it mainly through particular attention heads in transformers, such as function vector (FV) heads and induction heads. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/) - [Farhan Samir](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/farhan-samir/) - [Shenran Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shenran-wang/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [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 6 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 1 November 2026