--- title: "Ziang Xiao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Ziang Xiao, Johns Hopkins University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziang-xiao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziang-xiao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ziang Xiao # Ziang Xiao Ziang Xiao has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Adam Trischler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-trischler/), [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/), [Amanda Cercas Curry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-cercas-curry/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5083645580) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3368-0180) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130802451) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5083645580) · [72 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083645580) · [1,381 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083645580&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziang-xiao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 18 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziang-xiao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10003](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/101/#star-10003) 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=Ziang+Xiao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ziang+Xiao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ziang+Xiao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ziang+Xiao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2023–2026 · 38 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2017–2024 · 20 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🏢**Microsoft Research Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2023–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research-montreal/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 2021–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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/) 🧭 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/ziang-xiao/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziang-xiao/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziang-xiao/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Joint Prompt Optimization of Stacked LLMs using Variational Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sordoni-2023-joint-prompt-optimization-stacked-llms/)** *(2023 · 23 citations)* The paper treats an instruction-following LLM as a stochastic "language layer." The layer maps a text input to a distribution over text outputs, and its trainable parameters are natural-language prompts rather than weights. 2. **[Generative Personality Simulation via Theory-Informed Structured Interview](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-generative-personality-simulation-theory-informed/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* LLMs are increasingly used as stand-ins for human participants, but their simulated answers to personality questionnaires tend to be too uniform. 3. **[Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blodgett-2025-proceedings-fourth-workshop-bridging-human/)** *(2025)* These are the proceedings of the fourth HCI+NLP workshop. The event took place on 9 November 2025 as part of EMNLP 2025. Its goal is to bring two communities closer together: natural language processing (NLP) and human-computer interaction (HCI). For NLP researchers, the workshop shows how HCI methods help evaluate… ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Adam Trischler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-trischler/) - [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/) - [Amanda Cercas Curry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-cercas-curry/) - [Arian Hosseini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arian-hosseini/) - [Diyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyi-yang/) - [Hanjie Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanjie-chen/) - [Marc-Alexandre Cote](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marc-alexandre-cote/) - [Nicolas Le Roux](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-le-roux/) - [Siyan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siyan-li/) - [Su Lin Blodgett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/su-lin-blodgett/) - [Sunipa Dev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sunipa-dev/) - [Tongshuang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tongshuang-wu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Workshop on Bridging Human–Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/hcinlp/): [Workshop on Bridging Human–Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/hcinlp/2025/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 18 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/ziang-xiao/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026