--- title: "Zhengyuan Shen — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Zhengyuan Shen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-shen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-shen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhengyuan Shen # Zhengyuan Shen Zhengyuan Shen has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Shuai Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuai-wang/), [Boran Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boran-han/), [Han Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-ding/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5044356303) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5044356303) · [51 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044356303) · [531 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044356303&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-shen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 19 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-shen/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9323](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/94/#star-9323) 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=Zhengyuan+Shen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhengyuan+Shen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhengyuan+Shen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhengyuan+Shen) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2023–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Harbin Institute of Technology** Harbin · China 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harbin-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill** Chapel Hill · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/) · [🎓**Henan University** Kaifeng · China 2022–2025 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/henan-university/) · [🎓**University of Minnesota** Minneapolis · United States 2019–2025 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota/) · [🎓**University of Minnesota System** Minneapolis · United States 2019–2025 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/03grvy078) · [🏛️**Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China** Beijing · China 2023–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/ministry-of-education-of-the-people-s-republic-of-china/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University of Technology** Hangzhou · China 2019–2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**Beijing Institute of Technology** Beijing · China 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-institute-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 6 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 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** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-shen/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-shen/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Systematic Survey of Automatic Prompt Optimization Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramnath-2025-systematic-survey-automatic-prompt-optimization/)** *(2025 · 40 citations)* Large language models react unpredictably to small changes in prompt wording, ordering or formatting. Manual prompt engineering is therefore laborious and quickly becomes outdated as models change. This survey by an Amazon Web Services team reviews black-box Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO): methods that improve… 2. **[When LLMs Read Tables Carelessly: Measuring and Reducing Data Referencing Errors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-when-llms-read-tables-carelessly/)** *(2026)* Even when LLMs parse a table correctly, they often misread it during reasoning. They cite the wrong cell, mix up columns, or skip relevant rows. The authors call these slips data referencing errors (DREs) and split them into two types: Incorrect Citation and Omitted Information. Earlier work looked at DREs only… ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Shuai Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuai-wang/) ×2 - [Boran Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boran-han/) - [Han Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-ding/) - [Kang Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kang-zhou/) - [Kiran Ramnath](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiran-ramnath/) - [Qi Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-zhu/) - [Sangmin Woo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sangmin-woo/) - [Soumya Smruti Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soumya-smruti-mishra/) - [Xuan Qi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-qi/) - [Yawei Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yawei-wang/) - [Yuqing Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuqing-yang/) ## 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/) - [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 19 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-shen/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026