--- title: "Ya Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Ya Zhang, Zhejiang Normal University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 58 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ya-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ya-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ya Zhang # Ya Zhang Ya Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Chaoyi Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaoyi-wu/), [Weidi Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weidi-xie/), [Weixiong Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixiong-lin/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100342828) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5390-9053) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131166970) · [**h-index 58**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100342828) · [909 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100342828) · [15,242 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100342828&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ya-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 136 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ya-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4072](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/41/#star-4072) 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=Ya+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ya+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ya+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ya+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2004–2026 · 287 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🔬**Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Shanghai · China 2020–2026 · 95 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/shanghai-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**North University of China** Taiyuan · China 2006–2026 · 38 papers*current*](https://ror.org/047bp1713) · [🎓**Zhejiang Normal University** Jinhua · China 2022–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://ror.org/01vevwk45) · [🏛️**Ningxia Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences** Yinchuan · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/019dkz313) · [🏛️**Ningxia Seismological Bureau** Yinchuan · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/029w34q36) · [🎓**Ningxia University** Yinchuan · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/04j7b2v61) · [🔬**Shanghai Key Laboratory of Digital Media Processing and Transmission** Shanghai · China 2013–2021 · 21 papers](https://ror.org/04gqa8725) · [🎓**Harbin Institute of Technology** Harbin · China 2014–2025 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harbin-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology** Nanjing · China 2009–2024 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/02y0rxk19) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 153 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 7 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/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper Towards Building Multilingual Language Model for Medicine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qiu-2024-towards-building-multilingual-language-model/) · [**2023** 1 paper PMC-LLaMA: Towards Building Open-source Language Models for Medicine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2023-pmc-llama-towards-building-open/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Towards Building Multilingual Language Model for Medicine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qiu-2024-towards-building-multilingual-language-model/)** *(2024 · 183 citations)* General-purpose multilingual LLMs such as BLOOM and InternLM 2 handle medical questions poorly outside English, mostly because their training data contain little medical text. 2. **[PMC-LLaMA: Towards Building Open-source Language Models for Medicine](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2023-pmc-llama-towards-building-open/)** *(2023 · 144 citations)* General-purpose LLMs handle everyday dialogue well but often give plausible yet wrong answers in medicine because they lack domain knowledge. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chaoyi Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaoyi-wu/) ×2 - [Weidi Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weidi-xie/) ×2 - [Weixiong Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixiong-lin/) ×2 - [Xiaoman Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoman-zhang/) ×2 - [Yanfeng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanfeng-wang/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 136 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ya-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026