--- title: "Yada Zhu — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Yada Zhu, IBM: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yada-zhu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yada-zhu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yada Zhu # Yada Zhu Yada Zhu has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Jingrui He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingrui-he/), [Hanghang Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanghang-tong/), [Jiaru Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaru-zou/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101792548) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3338-6371) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101792548) · [92 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101792548) · [871 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101792548&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yada-zhu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 39 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yada-zhu/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10077](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/101/#star-10077) 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=Yada+Zhu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yada+Zhu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yada+Zhu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yada+Zhu) ## Affiliations [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2012–2026 · 61 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🔬**IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research Center** Yorktown Heights · United States 2011–2026 · 35 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ibm-research-thomas-j-watson-research-center/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2021–2025 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2022–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey** New Brunswick · United States 2009–2015 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rutgers-the-state-university-of-new-jersey/) 🏛️**IBM Research** Yorktown Heights · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2010Employment since 2010 · Pricinple Research Scientist, IBM Research From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yada-zhu/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Mem-Gallery: Benchmarking Multimodal Long-Term Conversational Memory for MLLM Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bei-2026-mem-gallery-benchmarking-multimodal-long/)** *(2026 · 6 citations)* Agents built on multimodal large language models (MLLMs) need to remember what users show and tell them over many conversations. 2. **[RAG over Tables: Hierarchical Memory Index, Multi-Stage Retrieval, and Benchmarking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zou-2026-rag-over-tables-hierarchical-memory/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Many real questions can only be answered by combining facts spread over several tables, yet RAG systems mostly target plain text, and realistic benchmarks for multi-table retrieval are scarce. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Reinforcement-Learning Based Portfolio Management with Augmented Asset Movement Prediction States ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i01.5462) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Yunan Ye et al.*2020 · 169 citations* 2. **[Paraphrase and Solve: Exploring and Exploiting the Impact of Surface Form on Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.153/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yue Zhou et al.*2024 · 23 citations* 3. **[Reasoning of Large Language Models over Knowledge Graphs with Super-Relations ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.22166) arXiv:2503.22166 · no summary yet**Song Wang et al.*2025 · 8 citations* 4. **[Mem-Gallery: Benchmarking Multimodal Long-Term Conversational Memory for MLLM Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bei-2026-mem-gallery-benchmarking-multimodal-long/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yuanchen Bei, Tianxin Wei, Xuying Ning, et al.*2026 · 6 citations* 5. **[RAG over Tables: Hierarchical Memory Index, Multi-Stage Retrieval, and Benchmarking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zou-2026-rag-over-tables-hierarchical-memory/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jiaru Zou, Dongqi Fu, Sirui Chen, et al.*2026 · 3 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jingrui He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingrui-he/) ×2 - [Hanghang Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanghang-tong/) - [Jiaru Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaru-zou/) - [Jiawei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-han/) - [Sirui Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sirui-chen/) - [Tianxin Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianxin-wei/) - [Xiao Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiao-lin/) - [Xuying Ning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuying-ning/) - [Yanjun Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanjun-zhao/) - [Yuanchen Bei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanchen-bei/) - [Zhining Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhining-liu/) - [Zihao Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-li/) ## 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/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [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/) - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 39 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yada-zhu/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026