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# Sun Yat-sen University

University [Guangzhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/guangzhou-cn/), [China](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/china/)in the agglomeration of [Guangzhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/guangzhou-cn/)

- [Website](https://www.sysu.edu.cn)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/0064kty71)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I157773358)

[**13** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/#works) · [**74** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/authors/) · [**7,331** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/#works) · [**1,452** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/#works)

## People (74)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at Sun Yat-sen University: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (8)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Daya Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daya-guo/) — current · 2018–2026 on 38 papers · education (Wikidata) · employment (ORCID) · 8 papers here · 11,990 citations
- [Xiaojun Quan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaojun-quan/) — current · 2018–2026 on 95 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 3 papers here · 1,373 citations
- [Jian Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-yin/) — current · 2005–2026 on 204 papers · employment (Wikidata) · 2 papers here · 1,457 citations
- [Xiaodan Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaodan-liang/) — current · 2014–2026 on 272 papers · 3 papers here · 1,703 citations
- [Yanlin Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanlin-wang/) — current · 2020–2026 on 77 papers · 2 papers here · 1,353 citations
- [Weizhou Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weizhou-shen/) — 2019–2024 on 12 papers · 2 papers here · 1,291 citations
- [Yunyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunyi-yang/) — 2019–2022 on 8 papers · 2 papers here · 1,119 citations
- [Wanjun Zhong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wanjun-zhong/) — current · 2019–2026 on 39 papers · 4 papers here · 1,522 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (66)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Huajian Xin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huajian-xin/) — 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 5,234 citations
- [Kai Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-wang/) — current · 2020–2024 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 1,793 citations
- [Ying Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-shen/) — 2020–2024 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 1,391 citations
- [Furu Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/furu-wei/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 27 papers here · 19,862 citations
- [Zhiyuan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-liu/) — 2014–2025 on 2 papers · 23 papers here · 16,385 citations
- [Rui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-zhang/) — 2016–2025 on 2 papers · 12 papers here · 7,475 citations
- [Tao Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-yu/) — 2013–2022 on 5 papers · 10 papers here · 7,107 citations
- [Fangyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangyu-liu/) — 2023–2024 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 6,521 citations
- [Lei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/) — 2005–2009 on 3 papers · 13 papers here · 6,388 citations
- [Lu Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lu-li/) — current · 2021–2026 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 6,261 citations
- [Xiang Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-zhou/) — 2024 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 5,948 citations
- [Zhiheng Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiheng-huang/) — 2022–2024 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 5,298 citations
- [Nan Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-du/) — 2021–2023 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 4,350 citations
- [Huan Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-lin/) — 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 3,931 citations
- [Qi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-zhang/) — 2012–2023 on 10 papers · 3 papers here · 3,510 citations
- [Zhuang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhuang-liu/) — 2024 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 3,410 citations
- [Zhijiang Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhijiang-guo/) — education (ORCID) · 5 papers here · 2,834 citations
- [Shaohan Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaohan-huang/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 2,765 citations
- [Wenjie Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-li/) — 2010–2022 on 3 papers · 7 papers here · 2,717 citations
- [Ge Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ge-li/) — 2024–2025 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 2,593 citations
- [Shuohuan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuohuan-wang/) — 2024 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 2,539 citations
- [Xiaofei Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaofei-sun/) — 2020–2021 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 2,068 citations
- [Ziwei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziwei-liu/) — 2022–2023 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 1,940 citations
- [Weinan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weinan-zhang/) — 2026 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 1,921 citations
- [Dongsheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongsheng-li/) — 2021–2024 on 3 papers · 4 papers here · 1,886 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 74 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/authors/)

## Works in our library (13)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [CodeBERT: A Pre-Trained Model for Programming and Natural Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feng-2020-codebert-pre-trained-model-programming/) — Zhangyin Feng, Daya Guo, Duyu Tang, et al. · 2020 · 2,954 citations
- [Relational Graph Attention Network for Aspect-based Sentiment Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-relational-graph-attention-network-aspect/) — Kai Wang, Weizhou Shen, Yunyi Yang, et al. · 2020 · 775 citations
- [LayoutLMv3: Pre-training for Document AI with Unified Text and Image Masking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2022-layoutlmv3-pre-training-document-ai/) — Yupan Huang, Tengchao Lv, Lei Cui, et al. · 2022 · 774 citations
- [UniXcoder: Unified Cross-Modal Pre-training for Code Representation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guo-2022-unixcoder-unified-cross-modal-pre/) — Daya Guo, Shuai Lu, Nan Duan, et al. · 2022 · 768 citations
- [Baseline Needs More Love: On Simple Word-Embedding-Based Models and Associated Pooling Mechanisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2018-baseline-needs-more-love-simple/) — Dinghan Shen, Guoyin Wang, Wenlin Wang, et al. · 2018 · 383 citations
- [Directed Acyclic Graph Network for Conversational Emotion Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2021-directed-acyclic-graph-network-conversational/) — Weizhou Shen, Siyue Wu, Yunyi Yang, et al. · 2021 · 344 citations
- [GraphCodeBERT: Pre-training Code Representations with Data Flow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guo-2021-graphcodebert-pre-training-code-representations/) — Daya Guo, Shuo Ren, Shuai Lu, et al. · 2021 · 328 citations
- [Baize: An Open-Source Chat Model with Parameter-Efficient Tuning on Self-Chat Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2023-baize-open-source-chat-model/) — Canwen Xu, Daya Guo, Nan Duan, et al. · 2023 · 294 citations
- [A Study of Reinforcement Learning for Neural Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2018-study-reinforcement-learning-neural-machine/) — Lijun Wu, Fei Tian, Tao Qin, et al. · 2018 · 232 citations
- [Reasoning Over Semantic-Level Graph for Fact Checking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhong-2020-reasoning-over-semantic-level-graph/) — Wanjun Zhong, Jingjing Xu, Duyu Tang, et al. · 2020 · 221 citations
- [Inter-GPS: Interpretable Geometry Problem Solving with Formal Language and Symbolic Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2021-inter-gps-interpretable-geometry-problem/) — Pan Lu, Ran Gong, Shibiao Jiang, et al. · 2021 · 134 citations
- [Multi-Domain Dialogue Acts and Response Co-Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2020-multi-domain-dialogue-acts-response/) — Kai Wang, Junfeng Tian, Rui Wang, et al. · 2020 · 65 citations
- [Linguistic Rules-Based Corpus Generation for Native Chinese Grammatical Error Correction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2022-linguistic-rules-based-corpus-generation/) — Shirong Ma, Yinghui Li, Rongyi Sun, et al. · 2022 · 59 citations

## Topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Language models & pretraining (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Code & programming languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) · [Sentiment & emotion (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Dialogue systems (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Reasoning (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Speech act theory (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Grammatical error correction & learner language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/grammatical-error-correction/)

## Fields

[Natural language processing (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Computing & GPUs (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computing/) · [Linguistics & languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Mathematics & statistics (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[Microsoft 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [Microsoft Research Asia 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research-asia/) [Peking University 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/peking-university/) [Tsinghua University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) [Harbin Institute of Technology 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harbin-institute-of-technology/) [Alibaba Group 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) [University of California, Los Angeles 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) [University of California San Diego 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) [Duke University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/duke-university/) [Tencent 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/tencent/) [Zhejiang University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) [Beihang University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/)

## Parent and units

**Units** National Supercomputer Center in Guangzhou State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technology Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University

**Related** Eighth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Fifth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Guangzhou Women and Children Medical Center Hainan Eye Hospital Hospital of Stomatology, Sun Yat-sen University SYSU-CMU International Joint Research Institute Shantou Central Hospital Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University The Seventh Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University

From the Research Organization Registry (ROR); those with a page here are linked.

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at Sun Yat-sen University; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.