--- title: "Tong Chen · Northeastern University — author profile and papers" description: "Tong Chen, Northeastern University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-chen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-chen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tong Chen # Tong Chen Tong Chen has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Anh Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anh-nguyen/), [Dong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-yu/), [Hongbin Na](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongbin-na/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5004108186) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0056-9857) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5004108186) · [107 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004108186) · [1,004 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004108186&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-chen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 70 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-chen/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4898](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4898) 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=Tong+Chen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tong+Chen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tong+Chen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tong+Chen) ## Affiliations [🎓**Guangxi University of Science and Technology** Liuchow · China 2020–2025 · 14 papers*current*](https://ror.org/02fj6b627) · [🎓**Northeastern University** Shenyang · China 2025 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university-cn/) · [🎓**Southwest University** Chongqing · China 2017–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/01kj4z117) · [🏥**Chinese PLA General Hospital** Beijing · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/04gw3ra78) · [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Mineral Processing** Beijing 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/02edjvw12) · [🎓**Jiangsu University** Zhenjiang · China 2018–2020 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/03jc41j30) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**Suzhou Vocational University** Suzhou · China 2006–2010 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/00hn8pj83) · [🎓**China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences** Beijing · China 2019–2023 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/042pgcv68) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 19 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 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 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [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/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper MEUR: A Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Multimodal Event Understanding and Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-meur-benchmark-evaluating-vision-language/) · [**2024** 1 paper Dense X Retrieval: What Retrieval Granularity Should We Use?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-dense-x-retrieval-what-retrieval/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Dense X Retrieval: What Retrieval Granularity Should We Use?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-dense-x-retrieval-what-retrieval/)** *(2024 · 142 citations)* Dense retrieval systems must decide how to split a corpus into indexable units, and this choice is usually fixed in advance. 2. **[MEUR: A Benchmark for Evaluating Vision-Language Models on Multimodal Event Understanding and Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-meur-benchmark-evaluating-vision-language/)** *(2026)* Most visual question answering benchmarks test objects, attributes and spatial relations. Datasets such as VQA-E and GQA include few questions about actions or events, and those can often be solved through shortcuts. The authors introduce MEUR, a benchmark that checks whether VLMs understand what is happening in an… ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anh Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anh-nguyen/) - [Dong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-yu/) - [Hongbin Na](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongbin-na/) - [Hongming Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongming-zhang/) - [Hongwei Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongwei-wang/) - [Kaixin Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaixin-ma/) - [Ling Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ling-chen/) - [Qi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-chen/) - [Sihao Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sihao-chen/) - [Wenhao Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhao-yu/) - [Xinran Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinran-zhao/) - [Yuqi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuqi-wang/) ## 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 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 70 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-chen/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026