--- title: "Weiyan Shi — author profile and papers" description: "Weiyan Shi, Northeastern University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2024), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiyan-shi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiyan-shi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Weiyan Shi # Weiyan Shi 2 papers on this site · 2019–2024 current affiliation [Northeastern University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/), Boston, United States Weiyan Shi has 2 papers on this site, in 2019–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Jingwen Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingwen-zhang/), [Diyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyi-yang/), [Ruoxi Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruoxi-jia/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5089522357) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0850-5831) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5089522357) · [53 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089522357) · [1 322 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089522357&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiyan-shi/#papers) · [379 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiyan-shi/cited-by/) · 2 more works in our library 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=Weiyan+Shi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Weiyan+Shi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Weiyan+Shi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Weiyan+Shi) ## Affiliations - [Northeastern University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) · Boston, United States —current · 2024–2026 on 7 papers - [Columbia University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · New York, United States —2021–2024 on 16 papers - [Stanford University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · Stanford, United States —2023–2024 on 5 papers - [Singapore University of Technology and Design](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/singapore-university-of-technology-and-design/) · Singapore, Singapore —2024 on 2 papers - [University of California, Los Angeles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) · Los Angeles, United States —2020–2024 on 2 papers - [Virginia Tech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/virginia-tech/) · Blacksburg, United States —2022 on 2 papers - [University of California, Davis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-davis/) · Davis, United States —2018–2021 on 17 papers - [University of California, Berkeley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · Berkeley, United States —2018–2020 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dialogue systems 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Bias, fairness & safety 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeng-2024-how-johnny-can-persuade-llms/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2019-persuasion-good-personalized-persuasive-dialogue/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Persuasion for Good: Towards a Personalized Persuasive Dialogue System for Social Good](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2019-persuasion-good-personalized-persuasive-dialogue/)** *(2019 · 366 citations)* The paper addresses the lack of data and theory for building dialogue agents that persuade people toward socially beneficial actions and adapt to the individual they are talking to. 2. **[How Johnny Can Persuade LLMs to Jailbreak Them: Rethinking Persuasion to Challenge AI Safety by Humanizing LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeng-2024-how-johnny-can-persuade-llms/)** *(2024 · 202 citations)* Most jailbreak research treats LLMs as algorithmic systems, attacking them with optimized gibberish suffixes, ciphers or role-play templates. ## 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 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jingwen Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingwen-zhang/) ×2 - [Diyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyi-yang/) - [Ruoxi Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruoxi-jia/) - [Yi Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-zeng/) - [Zhou Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhou-yu/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 379 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiyan-shi/cited-by/).