--- title: "Ruochen Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Ruochen Zhang, Shenyang Ligong University: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 22 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruochen-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruochen-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ruochen Zhang # Ruochen Zhang Ruochen Zhang has 4 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Genta Indra Winata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/genta-indra-winata/), [Jan Christian Blaise Cruz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-christian-blaise-cruz/), [Samuel Cahyawijaya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-cahyawijaya/). 4 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102001980) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3104-6944) · [**h-index 22**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102001980) · [105 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102001980) · [2,391 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102001980&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruochen-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 259 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruochen-zhang/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6270](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/63/#star-6270) 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=Ruochen+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ruochen+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ruochen+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ruochen+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 2020–2026 · 18 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🎓**Beijing Institute of Technology** Beijing · China 2024–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Shandong University of Science and Technology** Qingdao · China 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04gtjhw98) · [🎓**Shenyang Ligong University** Shenyang · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/03m20nr07) · [🎓**Tiangong University** Tianjin · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/00xsr9m91) · [🎓**Nankai University** Tianjin · China 2022–2025 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nankai-university/) · [🎓**Xi'an University of Technology** Xi'an · China 2023–2025 · 10 papers](https://ror.org/038avdt50) · [🏥**First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University** Suzhou · China 2020–2022 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/051jg5p78) · [🔬**Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemical Science and Engineering Tianjin** Tianjin · China 2023–2025 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/0225a5s12) · [🎓**North China University of Science and Technology** Tangshan · China 2020–2021 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/04z4wmb81) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 22 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).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruochen-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruochen-zhang/year/2025/) · [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruochen-zhang/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Multilingual Large Language Models Are Not (Yet) Code-Switchers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-multilingual-large-language-models-are/)** *(2023 · 86 citations)* Code-switching (CSW), where speakers alternate between languages within a single utterance, is common in multilingual communities. 2. **[Prompting Multilingual Large Language Models to Generate Code-Mixed Texts: The Case of South East Asian Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yong-2023-prompting-multilingual-large-language-models/)** *(2023 · 48 citations)* Code-mixing, or switching between languages within a single utterance, is common across South East Asia. Yet NLP research on it has little data, because such speech is mostly informal or spoken, and scraping it from social media raises legal and scaling problems. The authors ask whether instruction-tuned multilingual… 3. **[Paths Not Taken: Understanding and Mending the Multilingual Factual Recall Pipeline](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2025-paths-not-taken-understanding-mending/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Multilingual LLMs often answer the same factual question differently depending on the language, and they tend to do worse outside high-resource languages. 4. **[Disentangling Linguistic Relatedness from Task Alignment in Cross-Lingual Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2026-disentangling-linguistic-relatedness-task-alignment/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether fine-tuning an LLM on one Semitic language helps it on related languages because of shared linguistic structure, or for a more mundane reason. ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[CVQA: Culturally-diverse Multilingual Visual Question Answering Benchmark ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.05967) arXiv:2406.05967 · no summary yet**David Romero et al.*2024 · 90 citations* 2. **[Multilingual Large Language Models Are Not (Yet) Code-Switchers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-multilingual-large-language-models-are/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Ruochen Zhang, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Jan Christian Blaise Cruz, et al.*2023 · 86 citations* 3. [**Prompting Multilingual Large Language Models to Generate Code-Mixed Texts: The Case of South East Asian Languages arXiv:2303.13592**Zheng-Xin Yong, Ruochen Zhang, Jessica Zosa Forde, et al.*2023 · 48 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yong-2023-prompting-multilingual-large-language-models/) 4. **[The Same But Different: Structural Similarities and Differences in Multilingual Language Modeling ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09223) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Ruochen Zhang et al.*2024 · 14 citations* 5. **[Re-Evaluating Evaluation for Multilingual Summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-main.1085/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Jessica Zosa Forde et al.*2024 · 12 citations* 6. **[Paths Not Taken: Understanding and Mending the Multilingual Factual Recall Pipeline](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2025-paths-not-taken-understanding-mending/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Meng Lu, Ruochen Zhang, Carsten Eickhoff, et al.*2025 · 9 citations* 7. **[Disentangling Linguistic Relatedness from Task Alignment in Cross-Lingual Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahmed-2026-disentangling-linguistic-relatedness-task-alignment/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ahmed Haj Ahmed, Ruochen Zhang, Alvin C Grissom II*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Genta Indra Winata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/genta-indra-winata/) ×2 - [Jan Christian Blaise Cruz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-christian-blaise-cruz/) ×2 - [Samuel Cahyawijaya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-cahyawijaya/) ×2 - [Ahmed Haj Ahmed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-haj-ahmed/) - [Alham Fikri Aji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alham-fikri-aji/) - [Arjun Subramonian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arjun-subramonian/) - [Carsten Eickhoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carsten-eickhoff/) - [Ellie Pavlick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellie-pavlick/) - [Holy Lovenia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/holy-lovenia/) - [Lintang Sutawika](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lintang-sutawika/) - [Long Phan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/long-phan/) - [Meng Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-lu/) ## 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/) ×4: [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/), [EMNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2023/) - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 259 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [63 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruochen-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026