--- title: "Kwok-Yan Lam — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kwok-Yan Lam, Nanyang Technological University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 40 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kwok-yan-lam/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kwok-yan-lam/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kwok-Yan Lam # Kwok-Yan Lam Kwok-Yan Lam has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Knowledge graphs & ontologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Aixin Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aixin-sun/), [Bing Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-li/), [Chen Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-chen/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101720092) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7479-7970) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130912467) · [**h-index 40**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101720092) · [374 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101720092) · [6,988 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101720092&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kwok-yan-lam/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 19 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kwok-yan-lam/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7246](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/73/#star-7246) 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=Kwok-Yan+Lam) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kwok-Yan+Lam) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kwok-Yan+Lam) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kwok-Yan+Lam) ## Affiliations [🎓**Nanyang Technological University** Singapore · Singapore 2016–2026 · 245 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanyang-technological-university/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2003–2012 · 47 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 1993–2020 · 38 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🔬**Strategic Centre for Research in Privacy-Preserving Technologies & Systems** Singapore · Singapore 2021–2024 · 18 papers](https://ror.org/015j4q458) · [🎓**Macquarie University** Sydney · Australia 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/macquarie-university/) · [🎓**University of London** London · United Kingdom 1991–1992 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-london/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kwok-yan-lam/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kwok-yan-lam/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Dipping PLMs Sauce: Bridging Structure and Text for Effective Knowledge Graph Completion via Conditional Soft Prompting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-dipping-plms-sauce-bridging-structure/)** *(2023 · 75 citations)* Knowledge Graph Completion (KGC) predicts missing entities in incomplete facts. Purely graph-based embedding models capture structure but ignore text. PLM-based models read entity text, but full fine-tuning makes them over-rely on surface wording. For example, they may mix up Leonardo da Vinci and Leonardo DiCaprio.… 2. **[Spectra: A Mechanistic Interpretability Library for Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/neo-2026-spectra-mechanistic-interpretability-library-vision/)** *(2026)* Tooling for mechanistic interpretability of vision-language models (VLMs) lags behind text-only tooling such as TransformerLens. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aixin Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aixin-sun/) - [Bing Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-li/) - [Chen Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-chen/) - [Yufei Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yufei-wang/) ## 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 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 19 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kwok-yan-lam/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026