--- title: "Lionel Ming-shuan Ni — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Lionel Ming-shuan Ni, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 83 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lionel-ming-shuan-ni/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lionel-ming-shuan-ni/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Lionel Ming-shuan Ni # Lionel Ming-shuan Ni Lionel Ming-shuan Ni has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Hang Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hang-yuan/), [Jiachen Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiachen-zhu/), [Jian Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-guo/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5021357065) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2325-6215) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60660308) · [**h-index 83**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5021357065) · [591 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021357065) · [33,640 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021357065&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lionel-ming-shuan-ni/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 106 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lionel-ming-shuan-ni/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9415](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/95/#star-9415) 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=Lionel+Ming-shuan+Ni) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Lionel+Ming-shuan+Ni) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Lionel+Ming-shuan+Ni) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Lionel+Ming-shuan+Ni) ## Affiliations [🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · China 2002–2026 · 283 papersEmployment since 2002 · Chair Professor, Computer Science and Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)** Guangzhou · China 2012–2026 · 34 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology-guangzhou/) · [🎓**Michigan State University** East Lansing · United States 1981–2005 · 160 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/michigan-state-university/) · [🎓**University of Macau** Macao · China 2015–2019 · 48 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-macau/) · [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2007–2015 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🔬**Guangzhou HKUST Fok Ying Tung Research Institute** Guangzhou · China 2013–2014 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/05cvbj479) · [🎓**Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers** Piscataway · United States 2005–2007 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/01n002310) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2009–2011 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology** Shenzhen · China 2009–2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/shenzhen-institutes-of-advanced-technology/) · [🎓**Imperial College London** London · United Kingdom 2008 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 12 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 9 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Economics, Econometrics and Finance · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/economics-econometrics-and-finance/) · [Finance · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/economics-econometrics-and-finance/finance/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lionel-ming-shuan-ni/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[OpenR: An Open Source Framework for Advanced Reasoning with Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2024-openr-open-source-framework-advanced/)** *(2024 · 50 citations)* OpenAI's o1 suggested that LLMs reason better when they use extra compute at inference and learn through reinforcement learning. 2. **[QuantAgent: Seeking Holy Grail in Trading by Self-Improving Large Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2024-quantagent-seeking-holy-grail-trading/)** *(2024 · 10 citations)* Adapting LLM agents to specialised fields such as quantitative investment is difficult because a high-quality domain knowledge base (for example, a library of financial alphas) is expensive or impractical to assemble by hand. ## All works 5 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. **[Generalizing from a Few Examples ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3386252) ACM Computing Surveys · no summary yet**Yaqing Wang et al.*2020 · 2,778 citations* 2. **[DN-DETR: Accelerate DETR Training by Introducing Query DeNoising ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52688.2022.01325) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Feng Li et al.*2022 · 1,061 citations* 3. **[Mask DINO: Towards A Unified Transformer-based Framework for Object Detection and Segmentation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52729.2023.00297) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Feng Li et al.*2023 · 576 citations* 4. [**OpenR: An Open Source Framework for Advanced Reasoning with Large Language Models arXiv:2410.09671**Jun Wang, Meng Fang, Ziyu Wan, et al.*2024 · 50 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2024-openr-open-source-framework-advanced/) 5. [**QuantAgent: Seeking Holy Grail in Trading by Self-Improving Large Language Model arXiv:2402.03755**Saizhuo Wang, Hang Yuan, Lionel M. Ni, et al.*2024 · 10 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2024-quantagent-seeking-holy-grail-trading/) ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hang Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hang-yuan/) - [Jiachen Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiachen-zhu/) - [Jian Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-guo/) - [Jun Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-wang/) - [Lei Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-chen/) - [Linyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linyi-yang/) - [Meng Fang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-fang/) - [Muning Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muning-wen/) - [Yan Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-song/) - [Ying Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-wen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings ×2 - ACM Computing Surveys ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 106 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/lionel-ming-shuan-ni/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026