--- title: "Minghan Li · Harvard University — author profile and papers" description: "Minghan Li, Harvard University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minghan-li/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minghan-li/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Minghan Li # Minghan Li Minghan Li has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Jimmy Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimmy-lin/), [Sheng-Chieh Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sheng-chieh-lin/), [Akari Asai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akari-asai/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100622894) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0055-9261) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100622894) · [36 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100622894) · [1,096 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100622894&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minghan-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 106 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minghan-li/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5892](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/59/#star-5892) 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=Minghan+Li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Minghan+Li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Minghan+Li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Minghan+Li) ## Affiliations [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2024–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**Hong Kong Polytechnic University** Hong Kong · China 2021–2025 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-polytechnic-university/) · [🎓**University of Science and Technology of China** Hefei · China 2017–2021 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china/) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 2022–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) · [🎓**Xi'an Jiaotong University** Xi'an · China 2018–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xi-an-jiaotong-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 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).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minghan-li/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minghan-li/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[How to Train Your Dragon: Diverse Augmentation Towards Generalizable Dense Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2023-how-train-your-dragon-diverse/)** *(2023 · 116 citations)* Dense retrievers (DR) of BERT-base size have usually forced a choice: models tuned for in-domain supervised retrieval on MS MARCO tend to transfer poorly to new domains, and the reverse also holds. 2. **[Unifying Multimodal Retrieval via Document Screenshot Embedding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2024-unifying-multimodal-retrieval-document-screenshot/)** *(2024 · 61 citations)* Conventional retrieval pipelines depend on format-specific parsing such as HTML extractors and OCR. These steps are laborious and error-prone, and they discard layout and visual cues. The authors propose Document Screenshot Embedding (DSE), which skips extraction and treats a screenshot of each document as its only… ## 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. **[Exact Feature Distribution Matching for Arbitrary Style Transfer and Domain Generalization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52688.2022.00787) 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**Yabin Zhang et al.*2022 · 254 citations* 2. **[How to Train Your Dragon: Diverse Augmentation Towards Generalizable Dense Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lin-2023-how-train-your-dragon-diverse/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Sheng-Chieh Lin, Akari Asai, Minghan Li, et al.*2023 · 116 citations* 3. **[Unifying Multimodal Retrieval via Document Screenshot Embedding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2024-unifying-multimodal-retrieval-document-screenshot/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Xueguang Ma, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Minghan Li, et al.*2024 · 61 citations* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jimmy Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimmy-lin/) ×2 - [Sheng-Chieh Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sheng-chieh-lin/) ×2 - [Akari Asai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akari-asai/) - [Barlas Oguz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barlas-oguz/) - [Wen-tau Yih](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-tau-yih/) - [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) - [Xilun Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xilun-chen/) - [Xueguang Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xueguang-ma/) - [Yashar Mehdad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yashar-mehdad/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - [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/) - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 106 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [14 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minghan-li/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026