--- title: "Kang Zhou — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kang Zhou, Amazon: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kang-zhou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kang-zhou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kang Zhou # Kang Zhou Kang Zhou has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026; often with [Kiran Ramnath](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiran-ramnath/), [Sangmin Woo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sangmin-woo/), [Han Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-ding/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5068416093) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4177-7188) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5068416093) · [23 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068416093) · [104 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068416093&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kang-zhou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 43 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kang-zhou/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9257](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/93/#star-9257) 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=Kang+Zhou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kang+Zhou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kang+Zhou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kang+Zhou) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2025–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**City University of Hong Kong** Hong Kong · China 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/city-university-of-hong-kong/) · [🔬**Peng Cheng Laboratory** Shenzhen · China 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/peng-cheng-laboratory/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🎓**Wuhan University** Wuhan · China 2021–2024 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/wuhan-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kang-zhou/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kang-zhou/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Systematic Survey of Automatic Prompt Optimization Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramnath-2025-systematic-survey-automatic-prompt-optimization/)** *(2025 · 40 citations)* Large language models react unpredictably to small changes in prompt wording, ordering or formatting. Manual prompt engineering is therefore laborious and quickly becomes outdated as models change. This survey by an Amazon Web Services team reviews black-box Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO): methods that improve… 2. **[Learning to Ideate for Machine Learning Engineering Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-learning-ideate-machine-learning-engineering/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Agents for machine learning engineering (MLE) often stop once they have one working solution and do not keep refining it. ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kiran Ramnath](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiran-ramnath/) ×2 - [Sangmin Woo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sangmin-woo/) ×2 - [Han Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-ding/) - [Lin Lee Cheong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-lee-cheong/) - [Shuai Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuai-wang/) - [Soumya Smruti Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soumya-smruti-mishra/) - [Xuan Qi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-qi/) - [Yawei Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yawei-wang/) - [Yun Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yun-zhou/) - [Yunxiang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunxiang-zhang/) - [Zhengyuan Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-shen/) - [Zhichao Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhichao-xu/) ## 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/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 43 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kang-zhou/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026