--- title: "Weixiang Zhao · Soochow University — author profile and papers" description: "Weixiang Zhao, Soochow University: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 28 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixiang-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixiang-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Weixiang Zhao # Weixiang Zhao Weixiang Zhao has 5 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Bing Qin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-qin/), [Yanyan Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanyan-zhao/), [Jiahe Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiahe-guo/). 5 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5112119688) · [**h-index 28**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5112119688) · [85 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5112119688) · [2,231 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5112119688&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixiang-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 27 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixiang-zhao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8494](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/85/#star-8494) 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=Weixiang+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Weixiang+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Weixiang+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Weixiang+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Soochow University** Suzhou · China 2018–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/soochow-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Davis** Davis · United States 2007–2015 · 29 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-davis/) · [🎓**Harbin Institute of Technology** Harbin · China 2021–2025 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harbin-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Clarkson University** Potsdam · United States 2004–2009 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/clarkson-university/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 1998–2004 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**Sun Yat-sen University** Guangzhou · China 2024–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/) · [🏢**National Grid** New York · United States 2012–2014 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/04vdxde73) · [🎓**Anhui Medical University** Hefei · China 2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03xb04968) · [🎓**Northeastern University** Shenyang · China 2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university-cn/) 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. ## 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).[Artificial Intelligence · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixiang-zhao/year/2026/) · [**2025** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixiang-zhao/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AdaSteer: Your Aligned LLM is Inherently an Adaptive Jailbreak Defender](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-adasteer-your-aligned-llm-is/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Safety-aligned LLMs can still be jailbroken. Activation steering is a training-free defense that pushes hidden states toward refusal, but it applies one fixed strength to every input. That fixed setting under-protects against some attacks and causes more false refusals of harmless requests. AdaSteer makes the… 2. **[Beware of Your Po! Measuring and Mitigating AI Safety Risks in Role-Play Fine-Tuning of LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-beware-your-po-measuring-mitigating/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* The paper examines how fine-tuning LLMs for character role-play affects their safety. The authors fine-tuned LLaMA-3-8B-Instruct separately for each of 95 characters from RoleBench. Role-play quality improved, but the models refused harmful AdvBench requests much less often, and villainous characters lost the most… 3. **[MPO: Multilingual Safety Alignment via Reward Gap Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-mpo-multilingual-safety-alignment-reward/)** *(2025 · 7 citations)* Safety-tuned LLMs refuse harmful requests reliably in English but much less so in lower-resource languages. 4. **[On Safety Risks in Experience-Driven Self-Evolving Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-safety-risks-experience-driven-self/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Experience-driven self-evolving LLM agents improve by distilling lessons from past interactions into an external memory and retrieving them for new tasks, while model weights stay frozen. 5. **[TEA-Bench: A Systematic Benchmarking of Tool-enhanced Emotional Support Dialogue Agent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sui-2026-tea-bench-systematic-benchmarking-tool/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Most emotional support conversation (ESC) systems and benchmarks only measure empathetic wording in text-only settings. ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bing Qin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-qin/) ×5 - [Yanyan Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanyan-zhao/) ×5 - [Jiahe Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiahe-guo/) ×4 - [Ting Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ting-liu/) ×4 - [Yang Deng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-deng/) ×4 - [Yulin Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yulin-hu/) ×4 - [An Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/an-zhang/) ×3 - [Tat-Seng Chua](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tat-seng-chua/) ×3 - [Xingyu Sui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingyu-sui/) ×3 - [Xinyang Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyang-han/) ×2 - [Hao He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-he/) - [Tongtong Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tongtong-wu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×3: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ×2 - [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 27 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixiang-zhao/cited-by/). 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