--- title: "Zhen Xiong · New York University — author profile and papers" description: "Zhen Xiong, New York University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-xiong/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-xiong/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhen Xiong # Zhen Xiong Zhen Xiong has 3 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Yiwei Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiwei-wang/), [Yujun Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yujun-cai/), [Zhecheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhecheng-li/). 3 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100546007) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100546007) · [43 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100546007) · [418 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100546007&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-xiong/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 16 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-xiong/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9347](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/94/#star-9347) 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+Xiong) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhen+Xiong) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhen+Xiong) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhen+Xiong) ## Affiliations [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University** Nanchang · China 2018–2021 · 10 papers](https://ror.org/04r1zkp10) · [🏢**TrinaSolar Co., Ltd.** Changzhou · China 2013–2018 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/007xgfy35) · [🎓**Shandong University** Jinan · China 2004–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shandong-university/) · [🎓**Emory University** Atlanta · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/emory-university/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-xiong/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Thinking with Sound: Audio Chain-of-Thought Enables Multimodal Reasoning in Large Audio-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiong-2025-thinking-sound-audio-chain-thought/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) turn a recording into a fixed set of embeddings once. After that step they cannot go back to the signal. Because of this, they perform poorly when audio is noisy or degraded, or when a task depends on fine acoustic detail. The authors propose Thinking-with-Sound (TwS), a framework… 2. **[Mapping the Minds of LLMs: A Graph-Based Analysis of Reasoning LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiong-2025-mapping-minds-llms-graph-based/)** *(2025 · 5 citations)* Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) such as DeepSeek-R1 produce long Chain-of-Thought traces, yet they often behave erratically. 3. **[Vulnerability of LLMs to Vertically Aligned Text Manipulations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-vulnerability-llms-vertically-aligned-text/)** *(2025 · 5 citations)* The paper asks whether decoder-based LLMs are as vulnerable as encoder models like BERT when some words in a text are written vertically, one character per line. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yiwei Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiwei-wang/) ×3 - [Yujun Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yujun-cai/) ×3 - [Zhecheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhecheng-li/) ×3 - [Bryan Hooi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bryan-hooi/) - [Kai-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-wei-chang/) - [Nanyun Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nanyun-peng/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 16 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-xiong/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026