--- title: "Kevin Zhu — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kevin Zhu, University of California, Berkeley: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-zhu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-zhu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kevin Zhu # Kevin Zhu Kevin Zhu has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, 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/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Sean O'Brien](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-o-brien/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101471343) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1881-8384) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101471343) · [82 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101471343) · [251 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101471343&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-zhu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 13 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-zhu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9221](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/93/#star-9221) 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+Zhu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kevin+Zhu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kevin+Zhu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kevin+Zhu) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 2021–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) 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 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-zhu/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-zhu/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AAVENUE: Detecting LLM Biases on NLU Tasks in AAVE via a Novel Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gupta-2024-aavenue-detecting-llm-biases-nlu/)** *(2024 · 17 citations)* Standard NLU benchmarks such as GLUE and SuperGLUE are written almost entirely in Standard American English (SAE), so they cannot show how LLMs handle African American Vernacular English (AAVE). 2. **[Adaptive Originality Filtering: Rejection Based Prompting and RiddleScore for Culturally Grounded Multilingual Riddle Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/le-2025-adaptive-originality-filtering-rejection-based/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* When LLMs are asked to write riddles in several languages, they tend to reuse familiar templates or repeat riddles they memorized during pretraining. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Sean O'Brien](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-o-brien/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4pi/): [Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nlp4pi/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 13 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-zhu/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026