--- title: "Ziru Chen · University of Oxford — author profile and papers" description: "Ziru Chen, University of Oxford: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziru-chen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziru-chen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ziru Chen # Ziru Chen Ziru Chen has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Ali Payani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-payani/), [Boshi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boshi-wang/), [Botao Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/botao-yu/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5060070647) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9507-6838) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5060070647) · [48 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060070647) · [461 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060070647&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziru-chen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 99 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziru-chen/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7768](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7768) 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=Ziru+Chen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ziru+Chen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ziru+Chen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ziru+Chen) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) · [🎓**Illinois Institute of Technology** Chicago · United States 2017–2025 · 18 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/illinois-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**The Ohio State University** Columbus · United States 2022–2025 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-ohio-state-university/) · [🎓**Beijing Institute of Technology** Beijing · China 2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-institute-of-technology/) · [🏛️**Guangzhou Laboratory** Guangzhou 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03ybmxt82) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 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 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/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Information Systems and Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) · [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/) 🧭 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 [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziru-chen/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ScienceAgentBench: Toward Rigorous Assessment of Language Agents for Data-Driven Scientific Discovery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-scienceagentbench-rigorous-assessment-language/)** *(2024 · 81 citations)* Claims that LLM-based agents can automate whole research pipelines are hard to verify. The authors argue that agents should first be tested on the individual steps of a scientific workflow. For this purpose they introduce ScienceAgentBench, which collects 102 tasks from 44 peer-reviewed papers spanning four fields… 2. **[When is Tree Search Useful for LLM Planning? It Depends on the Discriminator](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-when-is-tree-search-useful/)** *(2024 · 28 citations)* The paper asks when sophisticated planning strategies actually help LLM agents on multi-step tasks. The authors model an agent as three components: a generator that proposes programs, a discriminator that scores them as a yes/no correctness question, and a planning method. They compare re-ranking with iterative… ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ali Payani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-payani/) - [Boshi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boshi-wang/) - [Botao Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/botao-yu/) - [Chen Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-wei/) - [Huan Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-sun/) - [Michael White](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-white/) - [Ray Mooney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ray-mooney/) - [Shijie Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shijie-chen/) - [Yifei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-li/) - [Yu Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-su/) ## 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 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 99 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [22 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziru-chen/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026