--- title: "Yifan Zhang — author profile and papers" description: "Yifan Zhang, Second Institute of Oceanography: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2026), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yifan Zhang # Yifan Zhang 2 papers on this site · 2016–2026 current affiliation [Second Institute of Oceanography](https://ror.org/01tkb7c15), Hangzhou, China Yifan Zhang has 2 papers on this site, in 2016–2026, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Ahmed Ali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-ali/), [Hamdy Mubarak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamdy-mubarak/), [James Glass](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-glass/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100376927) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8882-4327) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100376927) · [125 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100376927) · [1 269 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100376927&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhang/#papers) · [252 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhang/cited-by/) · 1 more work 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=Yifan+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yifan+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yifan+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yifan+Zhang) ## Affiliations - [Second Institute of Oceanography](https://ror.org/01tkb7c15) · Hangzhou, China —current · 2026 on 1 paper - [Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications](https://ror.org/04w9fbh59) · Beijing, China —2012–2025 on 18 papers - [City University of Hong Kong](https://ror.org/03q8dnn23) · Hong Kong, Hong Kong —2019–2025 on 13 papers - [City University of Hong Kong (Dongguan)](https://ror.org/03hj2gd47) · Dongguan, China —2025 on 3 papers - [ETH Zurich](https://ror.org/05a28rw58) · Zurich, Switzerland —2024–2025 on 3 papers - [Institute for Transport Planning and Systems](https://ror.org/025em6n98) · Zurich, Switzerland —2024–2025 on 3 papers - [National University of Defense Technology](https://ror.org/05d2yfz11) · Changsha, China —2021–2025 on 3 papers - [Beihang University](https://ror.org/00wk2mp56) · Beijing, China —2019–2024 on 6 papers - [Civil Aviation University of China](https://ror.org/03je71k37) · Tianjin, China —2024 on 2 papers - [Nanjing Normal University](https://ror.org/036trcv74) · Nanjing, China —2016–2024 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 43 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Semitic languages 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Speech & spoken language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The MGB-2 Challenge: Arabic Multi-Dialect Broadcast Media Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ali-2016-mgb-2-challenge-arabic-multi/)** *(2016 · 154 citations)* MGB-2 is a shared evaluation for automatic recognition of Arabic broadcast speech, held for SLT-2016. The earlier English MGB focused on variety across TV genres; this edition focuses on variety across Arabic dialects. The organisers collected about 1,200 hours of Aljazeera TV recordings from 2005–2015, drawn from 19… 2. **[More Data, Fewer Diacritics: Scaling Arabic TTS](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/musleh-2026-more-data-fewer-diacritics-scaling/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Arabic speech synthesis has two problems. There is little public training audio, and written Arabic usually omits diacritics, the short-vowel marks that determine pronunciation. Existing public corpora are small and fully diacritized; the largest has 83 hours, most of it synthetic. The authors gathered about 20k… ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ahmed Ali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-ali/) - [Hamdy Mubarak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamdy-mubarak/) - [James Glass](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-glass/) - [Kareem Darwish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kareem-darwish/) - [Steve Renals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/steve-renals/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 252 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [59 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhang/cited-by/).