--- title: "Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang — author profile and papers" description: "Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2021), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ting-hao-kenneth-huang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ting-hao-kenneth-huang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang # Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang works on language technology that connects text with other kinds of information, such as images or tables, and on building datasets and evaluation tasks for it. Huang's two papers here share a method: asking people to write language for a defined task, then using that collection to test what systems can and cannot do. One paper addresses storytelling grounded in photos. The other addresses multi-step numerical [reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) over documents. The most cited of these papers is [FinQA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2021-finqa-dataset-numerical-reasoning-over/) (2021). It introduces a question-answering benchmark built on S&P 500 earnings reports. Finance professionals wrote the questions, and answering them often requires combining figures from tables with the surrounding prose and chaining several calculations. Each answer is paired with an executable reasoning program, so a system can be checked both on its final number and on the steps it took. The earlier [Visual Storytelling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2016-visual-storytelling/) (2016) moves image captioning from literal descriptions of single photos toward narratives about photo sequences. It presents the SIND v.1 dataset, which collects several tiers of text for the same images, and it tests automatic metrics against human judgments before choosing one. Taken in order, the two papers shift from vision-and-language generation in 2016 to numerical reasoning over financial text and tables in 2021. Bylines from 2018 to 2025 list [Pennsylvania State University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/pennsylvania-state-university/), and those from 2011 to 2017 list [Carnegie Mellon University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/). Co-authors on the papers here include [Nasrin Mostafazadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nasrin-mostafazadeh/), [Devi Parikh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/devi-parikh/), [Dhruv Batra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dhruv-batra/), [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) and [Charese Smiley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charese-smiley/). Ting-Hao Kenneth Huang has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2021, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Aishwarya Agrawal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-agrawal/), [C. Lawrence Zitnick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/c-lawrence-zitnick/), [Charese Smiley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charese-smiley/). 2 papers in our library · 2016–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5083675499) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-4627) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q103307904) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5083675499) · [103 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083675499) · [1,668 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083675499&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ting-hao-kenneth-huang/#papers) · [🔗 405 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ting-hao-kenneth-huang/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #2195](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/22/#star-2195) 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=Ting-Hao+Kenneth+Huang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ting-Hao+Kenneth+Huang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ting-Hao+Kenneth+Huang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ting-Hao+Kenneth+Huang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Pennsylvania State University** State College · United States 2018–2025 · 53 papersEmployment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/pennsylvania-state-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2011–2017 · 14 papersEducation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**National Taiwan University** Taipei · Taiwan 2006–2009 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-taiwan-university/) · [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 2021–2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) 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. ## Topics [Reasoning (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2021-finqa-dataset-numerical-reasoning-over/) ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2016-visual-storytelling/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[FinQA: A Dataset of Numerical Reasoning over Financial Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2021-finqa-dataset-numerical-reasoning-over/)** *(2021 · 510 citations)* Analysts have to pull figures out of long earnings reports and chain several calculations together. General-domain QA benchmarks such as DROP rarely test this, because their Wikipedia-based questions usually need only one arithmetic step. FinQA addresses this gap. Eleven finance professionals (CPAs, MBAs) wrote 8,281… 2. **[Visual Storytelling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2016-visual-storytelling/)** *(2016 · 344 citations)* Image captioning research mostly produces literal descriptions of single photos. This paper asks whether systems can instead produce narratives for photo sequences, using social, evaluative and figurative language grounded in what the images show. The authors build SIND v.1, described as the first dataset for… ## Also in our library 2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aishwarya Agrawal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-agrawal/) - [C. Lawrence Zitnick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/c-lawrence-zitnick/) - [Charese Smiley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charese-smiley/) - [Devi Parikh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/devi-parikh/) - [Dhruv Batra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dhruv-batra/) - [Ishan Misra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ishan-misra/) - [Jacob Devlin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-devlin/) - [Nasrin Mostafazadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nasrin-mostafazadeh/) - [Pushmeet Kohli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pushmeet-kohli/) - [Ross Girshick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ross-girshick/) - [Sameena Shah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sameena-shah/) - [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 405 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ting-hao-kenneth-huang/cited-by/).