--- title: "Yifan Zhou — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yifan Zhou, North China Electric Power University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yifan Zhou # Yifan Zhou Yifan Zhou has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Guancheng Wan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guancheng-wan/), [Peng Shu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peng-shu/), [Yi Pan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-pan/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5076250822) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5162-6818) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5076250822) · [41 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076250822) · [999 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5076250822&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 48 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhou/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8551](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8551) 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+Zhou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yifan+Zhou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yifan+Zhou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yifan+Zhou) ## Affiliations [🎓**Xi'an Jiaotong University** Xi'an · China 2018–2026 · 15 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xi-an-jiaotong-university/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Mechanical Structure Strength and Vibration** Xi'an 2019–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://ror.org/02bc1qd91) · [🎓**North China Electric Power University** Beijing · China 2019–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/north-china-electric-power-university/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2023–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Power System Operation and Control** Beijing · China 2023–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04tfk4w22) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Alternate Electrical Power System with Renewable Energy Sources** Beijing 2019–2022 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/045hfth47) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2021–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🏛️**Civil Aviation Administration of China** Beijing · China 2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05gfwht30) · [🎓**University of Georgia** Athens · United States 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-georgia/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhou/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhou/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Evaluation of OpenAI o1: Opportunities and Challenges of AGI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhong-2024-evaluation-openai-o1-opportunities-challenges/)** *(2024 · 64 citations)* The paper examines how close OpenAI's o1-preview comes to general-purpose intelligence. o1-preview is a model trained with reinforcement learning to work through chain-of-thought reasoning before it answers. A large multi-institution team tested it on 27 task categories, mostly built from public datasets. These span… 2. **[Scaling Behaviors of LLM Reinforcement Learning Post-Training: An Empirical Study in Mathematical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tan-2026-scaling-behaviors-llm-reinforcement-learning/)** *(2026 · 6 citations)* Scaling laws are well established for LLM pre-training, but little is known about how they behave when reinforcement learning is applied after pre-training. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Guancheng Wan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guancheng-wan/) - [Peng Shu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peng-shu/) - [Yi Pan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-pan/) - [Yutong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yutong-zhang/) - [Zeyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyu-zhang/) - [Zhengliang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengliang-liu/) - [Zhong-Zhi Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhong-zhi-li/) - [Zihao Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-wu/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 48 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhou/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026