--- title: "Yixin Wan — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yixin Wan, University of California, Los Angeles: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-wan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-wan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yixin Wan # Yixin Wan Yixin Wan has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Aparna Garimella](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aparna-garimella/), [Jiao Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiao-sun/), [Kai-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-wei-chang/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5019927724) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3858-0971) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92655989) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5019927724) · [56 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5019927724) · [654 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5019927724&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-wan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 239 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-wan/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3909](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3909) 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=Yixin+Wan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yixin+Wan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yixin+Wan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yixin+Wan) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Los Angeles** Los Angeles · United States 2022–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) · [🏥**Lanzhou University Second Hospital** Lanzhou · China 2009–2023 · 27 papers](https://ror.org/02erhaz63) · [🎓**Lanzhou University** Lanzhou · China 2009–2022 · 14 papers](https://ror.org/01mkqqe32) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 9 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers Yixin Wan's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-wan/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[“Kelly is a Warm Person, Joseph is a Role Model”: Gender Biases in LLM-Generated Reference Letters](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2023-kelly-is-warm-person-joseph/)** *(2023 · 206 citations)* The paper asks whether large language models carry gender stereotypes into a sensitive real-world task: drafting recommendation letters that users may submit with little or no editing. 2. **[TheoremQA: A Theorem-driven Question Answering Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-theoremqa-theorem-driven-question-answering/)** *(2023 · 155 citations)* Benchmarks such as GSM8K are no longer hard for frontier LLMs. GPT-4 and PaLM-2 score above 90% on them, and the questions rarely require specialised knowledge. TheoremQA targets a harder skill: using a specific university-level theorem to solve a problem. The authors had GPT-4 propose subfields and candidate… ## All works 7 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. **[“Kelly is a Warm Person, Joseph is a Role Model”: Gender Biases in LLM-Generated Reference Letters](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2023-kelly-is-warm-person-joseph/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Yixin Wan, George Pu, Jiao Sun, et al.*2023 · 206 citations* 2. **["Kelly is a Warm Person, Joseph is a Role Model": Gender Biases in LLM-Generated Reference Letters ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.09219) arXiv:2310.09219 · no summary yet**Yixin Wan et al.*2023 · 168 citations* 3. **[TheoremQA: A Theorem-driven Question Answering Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-theoremqa-theorem-driven-question-answering/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Wenhu Chen, Ming Yin, Max Ku, et al.*2023 · 155 citations* 4. **[PIP: Parse-Instructed Prefix for Syntactically Controlled Paraphrase Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.659/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · no summary yet**Yixin Wan, Kuan-Hao Huang, Kai-Wei Chang*2023 · 10 citations* 5. **[Using Item Response Theory to Measure Gender and Racial Bias of a BERT-based Automated English Speech Assessment System ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.bea-1.1/) Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) · no summary yet**Alexander Kwako et al.*2022 · 10 citations* 6. **[Does BERT Exacerbate Gender or L1 Biases in Automated English Speaking Assessment? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.bea-1.54/) Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2023) · no summary yet**Alexander Kwako et al.*2023 · 8 citations* 7. **[InsideOut: Measuring and Mitigating Insider–Outsider Bias in Interview Script Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1094/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yixin Wan, Xingrun Chen, Kai-Wei Chang*2026* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aparna Garimella](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aparna-garimella/) - [Jiao Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiao-sun/) - [Kai-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-wei-chang/) - [Max Ku](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/max-ku/) - [Ming Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-yin/) - [Nanyun Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nanyun-peng/) - [Pan Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pan-lu/) - [Tony Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tony-xia/) - [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) - [Xinyi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyi-wang/) - [Xueguang Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xueguang-ma/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of the 17th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA 2022) ×2 - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2023/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 - Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 239 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [24 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-wan/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026