--- title: "Kexin Pei · University of Chicago — author profile and papers" description: "Kexin Pei, University of Chicago: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexin-pei/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexin-pei/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kexin Pei # Kexin Pei Kexin Pei has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Alexander Wettig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wettig/), [Carlos E. Jimenez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carlos-e-jimenez/), [John Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-yang/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5007048525) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5052-9808) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130827792) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5007048525) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5007048525) · [4,206 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5007048525&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexin-pei/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 635 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexin-pei/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3435](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/35/#star-3435) 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=Kexin+Pei) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kexin+Pei) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kexin+Pei) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kexin+Pei) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Chicago** Chicago · United States 2023–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chicago/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2016–2024 · 20 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 2015–2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Software · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) 🧭 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** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexin-pei/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexin-pei/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SWE-bench: Can Language Models Resolve Real-World GitHub Issues?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jimenez-2024-swe-bench-can-language-models/)** *(2024 · 704 citations)* Existing coding benchmarks such as HumanEval mostly test short, self-contained functions, so they say little about whether language models can do real software maintenance. 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. ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alexander Wettig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wettig/) - [Carlos E. Jimenez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carlos-e-jimenez/) - [John Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-yang/) - [Karthik Narasimhan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karthik-narasimhan/) - [Kevin Leach](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-leach/) - [Ofir Press](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ofir-press/) - [Shunyu Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shunyu-yao/) - [Yifan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhang/) - [Yu Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-huang/) ## 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/): [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 635 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [177 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexin-pei/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026