--- title: "Zekun Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zekun Zhang, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 15 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zekun-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zekun-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zekun Zhang # Zekun Zhang Zekun Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Haoran Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoran-sun/), [Shaoning Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaoning-zeng/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100639373) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7614-5589) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100639373) · [60 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100639373) · [1,032 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100639373&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zekun-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zekun-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12082](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/121/#star-12082) 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=Zekun+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zekun+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zekun+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zekun+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northwestern Polytechnical University** Xi'an · China 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-polytechnical-university/) · [🎓**East China Normal University** Shanghai · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/east-china-normal-university/) · [🎓**Guangdong Ocean University** Zhanjiang · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/0462wa640) · [🎓**University of Electronic Science and Technology of China** Chengdu · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-electronic-science-and-technology-of-china/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2006–2024 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**Beijing Institute of Technology** Beijing · China 2020–2025 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Beijing University of Chemical Technology** Beijing · China 2017–2021 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/00df5yc52) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering** Beijing · China 2017–2021 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/030ec4b63) · [🎓**Wuhan University** Wuhan · China 2021–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/wuhan-university/) · [🎓**Guangdong University of Technology** Guangzhou · China 2022–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/guangdong-university-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 18 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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zekun-zhang/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Preference-Aware Memory Update for Long-Term LLM Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2026-preference-aware-memory-update-long/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Long-running LLM agents usually rely on memory systems such as MemoryBank, MemGPT, MemInsight or A-MEM. These systems mostly improve how memory is stored and retrieved. They pay little attention to keeping memory current as a user's preferences change over time. The authors propose PAMU (Preference-Aware Memory… 2. **[A Dual-Phase Self-Evolution Framework for Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2026-dual-phase-self-evolution-framework/)** *(2026)* Post-training methods such as preference optimization or memory-augmented prompting help LLMs match user expectations, but they leave the model's underlying domain knowledge mostly unchanged. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Haoran Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoran-sun/) ×2 - [Shaoning Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaoning-zeng/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) ×2: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zekun-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026