--- title: "Jiaru Zou — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Jiaru Zou, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaru-zou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaru-zou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jiaru Zou # Jiaru Zou Jiaru Zou has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Jingrui He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingrui-he/), [Hanghang Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanghang-tong/), [Jiawei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-han/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051330767) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051330767) · [36 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051330767) · [94 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051330767&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaru-zou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 5 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaru-zou/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10558](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/106/#star-10558) 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=Jiaru+Zou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jiaru+Zou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jiaru+Zou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jiaru+Zou) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2024–2026 · 31 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Institute of Geology and Geophysics** Beijing · China 2021 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/030vmwa78) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [History and Philosophy of Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/history-and-philosophy-of-science/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaru-zou/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[RAG over Tables: Hierarchical Memory Index, Multi-Stage Retrieval, and Benchmarking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zou-2026-rag-over-tables-hierarchical-memory/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Many real questions can only be answered by combining facts spread over several tables, yet RAG systems mostly target plain text, and realistic benchmarks for multi-table retrieval are scarce. 2. **[PAPERMIND: Benchmarking Agentic Reasoning and Critique over Scientific Papers in Multimodal LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-papermind-benchmarking-agentic-reasoning-critique/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* PaperMind is a benchmark for testing whether multimodal LLMs can reason about scientific papers in an integrated, agent-like way. ## All works 3 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. **[RAG over Tables: Hierarchical Memory Index, Multi-Stage Retrieval, and Benchmarking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zou-2026-rag-over-tables-hierarchical-memory/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jiaru Zou, Dongqi Fu, Sirui Chen, et al.*2026 · 3 citations* 2. **[PAPERMIND: Benchmarking Agentic Reasoning and Critique over Scientific Papers in Multimodal LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-papermind-benchmarking-agentic-reasoning-critique/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Yanjun Zhao, Tianxin Wei, Jiaru Zou, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 3. **[Zero-Shot Open-Schema Entity Structure Discovery ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.eacl-long.354/) Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Xueqiang Xu et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jingrui He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingrui-he/) ×2 - [Hanghang Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanghang-tong/) - [Jiawei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-han/) - [Lingjie Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingjie-chen/) - [Sirui Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sirui-chen/) - [Tianxin Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianxin-wei/) - [Xuying Ning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuying-ning/) - [Yada Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yada-zhu/) - [Yanjun Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanjun-zhao/) - [Yuanchen Bei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanchen-bei/) - [Zihao Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-li/) ## 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/) ×2: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ×2 - Proceedings of the 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 5 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaru-zou/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026