--- title: "Kevin Leach · Vanderbilt University — author profile and papers" description: "Kevin Leach, Vanderbilt University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-leach/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-leach/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kevin Leach # Kevin Leach Kevin Leach has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Yifan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhang/), [Yu Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-huang/), [Chen Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-huang/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5030030910) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4001-3442) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130804114) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5030030910) · [117 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030030910) · [1,434 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030030910&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-leach/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 286 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-leach/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13008](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/131/#star-13008) 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=Kevin+Leach) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kevin+Leach) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kevin+Leach) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kevin+Leach) ## Affiliations [🎓**Vanderbilt University** Nashville · United States 2022–2026 · 75 papersEmployment since 2022 · Assistant Professor, Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/vanderbilt-university/) · [🎓**University of Michigan** Ann Arbor · United States 2017–2026 · 19 papersEmployment 2017–2022 · Research Fellow, Computer Science and Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-michigan/) · [🎓**University of Virginia** Charlottesville · United States 2014–2017 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-virginia/) · [🏢**Vanderbilt Health** Nashville · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05grhsk96) · [🎓**Southern University of Science and Technology** Shenzhen · China 2021–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southern-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**George Mason University** Fairfax · United States 2013 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/george-mason-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 6 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/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) 🧭 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 [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-leach/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[EyeMulator: Improving Code Language Models by Mimicking Human Visual Attention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-eyemulator-improving-code-language-models/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Code language models usually learn where to "look" from token statistics alone. Human programmers instead concentrate on meaningful parts of code, such as conditions, signatures and data flow, and skim boilerplate. EyeMulator transfers this human selectivity into CodeLLMs without changing their architecture. The… 2. **[SynthFix: Adaptive Neuro-Symbolic Code Vulnerability Repair](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-synthfix-adaptive-neuro-symbolic-code/)** *(2026)* LLM-based code repair often produces patches that look plausible but break program semantics or leave the security flaw in place. ## 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. **[An Evaluation Dataset for Intent Classification and Out-of-Scope Prediction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1131/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · no summary yet**Stefan Larson et al.*2019 · 677 citations* 2. **[EyeMulator: Improving Code Language Models by Mimicking Human Visual Attention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-eyemulator-improving-code-language-models/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yifan Zhang, Chen Huang, Yueke Zhang, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 3. **[SynthFix: Adaptive Neuro-Symbolic Code Vulnerability Repair](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-synthfix-adaptive-neuro-symbolic-code/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Yifan Zhang, Jieyu Li, Kexin Pei, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yifan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhang/) ×2 - [Yu Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-huang/) ×2 - [Chen Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-huang/) - [Jiahao Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiahao-zhang/) - [Kexin Pei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexin-pei/) - [Toby Jia-Jun Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/toby-jia-jun-li/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [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/) - Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 286 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-leach/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026