--- title: "Zhen Lin · Westlake University — author profile and papers" description: "Zhen Lin, Westlake University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-lin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-lin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhen Lin # Zhen Lin Zhen Lin has 2 papers in our library, in 2025; often with [Minjun Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minjun-zhu/), [Qiujie Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiujie-xie/), [Yixuan Weng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixuan-weng/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5120753926) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5120753926) · [1 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120753926) · [2 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120753926&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-lin/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 27 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-lin/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10535](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/106/#star-10535) 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=Zhen+Lin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhen+Lin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhen+Lin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhen+Lin) ## Affiliations [🎓**Westlake University** Hangzhou · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/westlake-university/) 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).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems and Management · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) · [Materials Chemistry · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/materials-chemistry/) · [Materials Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-lin/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[DeepScientist: Advancing Frontier-Pushing Scientific Findings Progressively](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weng-2025-deepscientist-advancing-frontier-pushing/)** *(2025 · 17 citations)* DeepScientist addresses a weakness of earlier "AI Scientist" agents. Those systems produce novel but often aimless results that rarely solve problems humans actually care about. The authors frame research as goal-directed Bayesian Optimization: the agent searches the space of candidate methods for the one that… 2. **[AI Scientists Fail Without Strong Implementation Capability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2025-ai-scientists-fail-strong/)** *(2025 · 12 citations)* This position paper asks why LLM-based "AI Scientist" systems have not yet delivered a computer-science breakthrough comparable to specialized tools such as AlphaFold, despite reports that their papers were accepted at an ICLR 2025 workshop and ACL 2025. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Minjun Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minjun-zhu/) ×2 - [Qiujie Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiujie-xie/) ×2 - [Yixuan Weng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixuan-weng/) ×2 - [Yue Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yue-zhang/) ×2 - [Jian Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-wu/) - [Linyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linyi-yang/) - [Qiyao Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiyao-sun/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 27 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-lin/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026