--- title: "Sherry Yang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Sherry Yang, Thomas Jefferson University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sherry Yang # Sherry Yang Sherry Yang has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Dale Schuurmans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dale-schuurmans/), [Pieter Abbeel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pieter-abbeel/), [Yilun Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-du/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5047689869) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-9684-0627) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5047689869) · [63 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047689869) · [947 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047689869&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 83 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7513](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/76/#star-7513) 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=Sherry+Yang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sherry+Yang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sherry+Yang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sherry+Yang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Thomas Jefferson University** Philadelphia · United States 2016–2026 · 23 papers*current*](https://ror.org/00ysqcn41) · [🏥**Thomas Jefferson University Hospital** Philadelphia · United States 2015–2025 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/04zhhva53) · [🏛️**National Cancer Institute** Bethesda · United States 2005–2015 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/040gcmg81) · [🏛️**National Institutes of Health** Bethesda · United States 2005–2014 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/national-institutes-of-health/) · [🤝**Henry Ford Health** Detroit · United States 2014–2015 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02kwnkm68) · [🏥**Henry Ford Hospital** Detroit · United States 2014–2015 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/0193sb042) · [🏥**Washington Hospital** Washington · United States 2007–2008 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00jerb145) · [🔬**Center for Cancer Research** Bethesda · United States 2005–2007 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05bjen692) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 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).[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/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Control and Systems Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/control-and-systems-engineering/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yang/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Foundation Models for Decision Making: Problems, Methods, and Opportunities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2023-foundation-models-decision-making-problems/)** *(2023 · 92 citations)* This survey addresses a growing gap. Large pretrained models for vision and language are now used in settings where they must act, receive feedback, and plan over many steps. Sequential decision making, by contrast, has mostly trained agents from scratch on single tasks. The authors (Google Research Brain Team, UC… 2. **[Learning Interactive Real-World Simulators](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2023-learning-interactive-real-world-simulators/)** *(2023 · 54 citations)* The paper asks whether a generative model can serve as an interactive simulator of the real world, producing the visual result of an action applied to a scene. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dale Schuurmans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dale-schuurmans/) ×2 - [Pieter Abbeel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pieter-abbeel/) ×2 - [Yilun Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-du/) ×2 - [Jason Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-wei/) - [Leslie Pack Kaelbling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leslie-pack-kaelbling/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 83 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sherry-yang/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026