--- title: "Na Zou · University of Houston — author profile and papers" description: "Na Zou, University of Houston: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/na-zou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/na-zou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Na Zou # Na Zou Na Zou has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, 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/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Guanchu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guanchu-wang/), [Andrew Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-wen/), [Chia-Yuan Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chia-yuan-chang/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5084497683) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1984-795X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130990765) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5084497683) · [74 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5084497683) · [1,562 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5084497683&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/na-zou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 180 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/na-zou/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5498](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/55/#star-5498) 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=Na+Zou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Na+Zou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Na+Zou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Na+Zou) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Houston** Houston · United States 2023–2025 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-houston/) · [🎓**Texas A&M University** College Station · United States 2016–2024 · 48 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/texas-a-m-university/) · [🎓**Arizona State University** Tempe · United States 2015 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/arizona-state-university/) · [🎓**University of Virginia** Charlottesville · United States 2019–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-virginia/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/na-zou/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Stop Overthinking: A Survey on Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sui-2025-stop-overthinking-survey-efficient-reasoning/)** *(2025 · 157 citations)* Reasoning-focused LLMs such as OpenAI o1 and DeepSeek-R1 get better at math and coding by writing long Chain-of-Thought traces. 2. **[MAIN-RAG: Multi-Agent Filtering Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2025-main-rag-multi-agent-filtering/)** *(2025 · 65 citations)* Retrieval-augmented generation can be undermined by retrieved passages that are off-topic or misleading. Such passages lower answer quality and add inference cost. MAIN-RAG is a post-retrieval filtering framework that needs no training or fine-tuning and runs on top of a standard retriever. It uses three LLM agents: ## 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. **[Non-Local U-Nets for Biomedical Image Segmentation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i04.6100) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Zhengyang Wang et al.*2020 · 177 citations* 2. [**Stop Overthinking: A Survey on Efficient Reasoning for Large Language Models arXiv:2503.16419**Yang Sui, Yu-Neng Chuang, Guanchu Wang, et al.*2025 · 157 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sui-2025-stop-overthinking-survey-efficient-reasoning/) 3. **[MAIN-RAG: Multi-Agent Filtering Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chang-2025-main-rag-multi-agent-filtering/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Chia-Yuan Chang, Zhimeng Jiang, Vineeth Rakesh, et al.*2025 · 65 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Guanchu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guanchu-wang/) ×2 - [Andrew Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-wen/) - [Chia-Yuan Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chia-yuan-chang/) - [Hanjie Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanjie-chen/) - [Hongyi Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongyi-liu/) - [Jiayi Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayi-yuan/) - [Shaochen Zhong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaochen-zhong/) - [Tianyi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyi-zhang/) - [Xia Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xia-hu/) - [Yan Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-zheng/) - [Yang Sui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-sui/) - [Yu-Neng Chuang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-neng-chuang/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 180 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [55 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/na-zou/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026