--- title: "Ping Nie · University of Waterloo — author profile and papers" description: "Ping Nie, University of Waterloo: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ping-nie/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ping-nie/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ping Nie # Ping Nie Ping Nie has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [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 [Bo Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-li/), [Hangxiao Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hangxiao-zhu/), [Kai Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zou/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139826183) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139826183) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139826183) · [2 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139826183&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ping-nie/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 8 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ping-nie/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11309](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/114/#star-11309) 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=Ping+Nie) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ping+Nie) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ping+Nie) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ping+Nie) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) 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 8 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 · 1 work](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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/statistics-probability-and-uncertainty/) 🧭 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/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ping-nie/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ping-nie/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[VisualWebInstruct: Scaling up Multimodal Instruction Data through Web Search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jia-2025-visualwebinstruct-scaling-up-multimodal-instruction/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Vision-language models handle perception tasks well but lag on multi-step reasoning, largely because little diverse, reasoning-oriented multimodal training data exists. 2. **[SciImpact: A Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Field Benchmark for Scientific Impact Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-sciimpact-multi-dimensional-multi-field/)** *(2026)* Most work on forecasting research influence treats citation counts as the only target. This leaves open whether models can judge other kinds of influence. SciImpact addresses this with a benchmark covering seven impact dimensions: Citation, Award, Patent, Media, Code (GitHub stars), Dataset and Model (Hugging Face… ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bo Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-li/) - [Hangxiao Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hangxiao-zhu/) - [Kai Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zou/) - [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) - [Xiang Yue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-yue/) - [Yu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-zhang/) - [Yuyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuyu-zhang/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [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 8 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/ping-nie/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026