--- title: "Zihao Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zihao Zhang, University of California, Merced: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zihao Zhang # Zihao Zhang Zihao Zhang 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/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Fei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-liu/), [Feiyun Ouyang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feiyun-ouyang/), [Hong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-yu/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5119204385) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5119204385) · [1 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5119204385) · [33 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5119204385&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 22 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7605](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/77/#star-7605) 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=Zihao+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zihao+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zihao+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zihao+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Merced** Merced · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-merced/) 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-zhang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[PlanGenLLMs: A Modern Survey of LLM Planning Capabilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wei-2025-plangenllms-modern-survey-llm-planning/)** *(2025 · 55 citations)* Planners built on large language models produce action sequences that move from a starting world state to a target one. 2. **[MedQA-CS: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)-Style Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Clinical Skills](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2026-medqa-cs-objective-structured-clinical/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Most medical LLM benchmarks, such as MedQA, rely on multiple-choice questions. These test what a model knows but not whether it can carry out a patient encounter. MedQA-CS fills this gap with an AI-SCE benchmark modeled on the OSCE format of the USMLE Step 2 CS exam, targeting the "shows how" tier of Miller's Pyramid. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-liu/) - [Feiyun Ouyang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feiyun-ouyang/) - [Hong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-yu/) - [Huixue Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huixue-zhou/) - [Junda Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junda-wang/) - [Tian Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tian-xia/) - [Zhichao Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhichao-yang/) - [Zonghai Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zonghai-yao/) ## 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 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 22 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026