--- title: "Yanjun Zhao — author profile and papers · Vision & language" description: "Yanjun Zhao, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanjun-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanjun-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yanjun Zhao # Yanjun Zhao Yanjun Zhao has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Hanghang Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanghang-tong/), [Jingrui He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingrui-he/), [Tianxin Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianxin-wei/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139782135) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139782135) · [2 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139782135) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139782135&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanjun-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 7 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanjun-zhao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10204](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/103/#star-10204) 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=Yanjun+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yanjun+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yanjun+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yanjun+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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/) · [History and Philosophy of Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/history-and-philosophy-of-science/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Vision & language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanjun-zhao/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. **[PAPERMIND: Benchmarking Agentic Reasoning and Critique over Scientific Papers in Multimodal LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-papermind-benchmarking-agentic-reasoning-critique/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* PaperMind is a benchmark for testing whether multimodal LLMs can reason about scientific papers in an integrated, agent-like way. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hanghang Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanghang-tong/) ×2 - [Jingrui He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingrui-he/) ×2 - [Tianxin Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianxin-wei/) ×2 - [Xuying Ning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuying-ning/) ×2 - [Yuanchen Bei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanchen-bei/) ×2 - [Jiaru Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaru-zou/) - [Lingjie Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingjie-chen/) - [Xiao Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiao-lin/) - [Yada Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yada-zhu/) - [Zhining Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhining-liu/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 7 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanjun-zhao/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026