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# University of Waterloo

University · UW [Waterloo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/kitchener/), [Canada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/canada/)in the agglomeration of [Kitchener](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/kitchener/)

- [Website](https://uwaterloo.ca/)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/01aff2v68)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I151746483)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1049470)

[**36** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/works/) · [**67** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/authors/) · [**11,969** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/works/) · [**5,396** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/works/)

## People (67)

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

### Core (18)

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

- [Jimmy Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimmy-lin/) — current · 2015–2026 on 495 papers · employment (ORCID) · employment (Wikidata) · 12 papers here · 5,607 citations
- [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) — current · 2022–2026 on 38 papers · 11 papers here · 6,882 citations
- [Ge Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ge-zhang/) — 2023–2025 on 8 papers · 7 papers here · 4,147 citations
- [Xueguang Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xueguang-ma/) — current · 2020–2026 on 51 papers · 4 papers here · 2,052 citations
- [Yuansheng Ni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuansheng-ni/) — current · 2024–2026 on 7 papers · 2 papers here · 1,869 citations
- [Rodrigo Nogueira](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rodrigo-nogueira/) — 2020–2023 on 36 papers · 3 papers here · 1,848 citations
- [Yao Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-lu/) — 2019–2020 on 5 papers · 3 papers here · 2,612 citations
- [Wei Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-yang/) — 2017–2020 on 13 papers · 3 papers here · 2,040 citations
- [Dongfu Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongfu-jiang/) — current · 2023–2026 on 14 papers · 2 papers here · 1,525 citations
- [Lili Mou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lili-mou/) — 2017–2020 on 17 papers · 3 papers here · 2,705 citations
- [Charles L.A. Clarke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-l-a-clarke/) — current · 1996–2026 on 213 papers · 2 papers here · 1,206 citations
- [Nandan Thakur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nandan-thakur/) — current · 2021–2026 on 42 papers · 4 papers here · 956 citations
- [Max Ku](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/max-ku/) — 2023–2024 on 5 papers · 2 papers here · 1,014 citations
- [Ming Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-li/) — 2011–2023 on 5 papers · 2 papers here · 1,210 citations
- [Mehdi Rezagholizadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehdi-rezagholizadeh/) — 2021–2024 on 14 papers · 6 papers here · 723 citations
- [Ehsan Kamalloo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ehsan-kamalloo/) — 2021–2024 on 17 papers · 2 papers here · 536 citations
- [Hongyang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongyang-zhang/) — 2020–2024 on 11 papers · 2 papers here · 341 citations
- [Shady Shehata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shady-shehata/) — 2006–2025 on 16 papers · 3 papers here · 261 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (49)**

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

- [Dzmitry Bahdanau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dzmitry-bahdanau/) — 2022–2023 on 2 papers · 6 papers here · 56,164 citations
- [Wen-tau Yih](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-tau-yih/) — 2022–2025 on 4 papers · 23 papers here · 18,202 citations
- [Caiming Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiming-xiong/) — 2022–2024 on 2 papers · 21 papers here · 16,209 citations
- [Barlas Oguz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barlas-oguz/) — 2022–2025 on 4 papers · 4 papers here · 6,831 citations
- [Weiming Ren](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiming-ren/) — 2024–2025 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 1,679 citations
- [Yu Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-su/) — 2023 on 3 papers · 7 papers here · 4,600 citations
- [Yuntian Deng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuntian-deng/) — current · 2024–2026 on 12 papers · 4 papers here · 4,026 citations
- [Peng Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peng-shi/) — 2022 on 4 papers · 3 papers here · 1,140 citations
- [Xi Victoria Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xi-victoria-lin/) — current · 2025 on 1 paper · 10 papers here · 2,895 citations
- [Xilun Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xilun-chen/) — 2022–2025 on 4 papers · 4 papers here · 1,403 citations
- [Yashar Mehdad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yashar-mehdad/) — 2022–2023 on 3 papers · 6 papers here · 1,676 citations
- [Freda Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/freda-shi/) — current · 2024–2026 on 23 papers · 2 papers here · 2,100 citations
- [Tony Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tony-xia/) — current · 2023 on 1 paper · 2 papers here · 694 citations
- [Yoshua Bengio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshua-bengio/) — 2018 on 5 papers · 23 papers here · 99,938 citations
- [Chong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chong-zhang/) — 2015–2018 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 16,390 citations
- [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/) — 2018 on 2 papers · 7 papers here · 15,544 citations
- [Dale Schuurmans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dale-schuurmans/) — 1999–2013 on 32 papers · 4 papers here · 14,959 citations
- [Matei Zaharia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matei-zaharia/) — 2006–2010 on 5 papers · education (Wikidata) · 7 papers here · 7,836 citations
- [Rui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-zhang/) — 2021–2022 on 2 papers · 12 papers here · 7,475 citations
- [Yee Whye Teh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yee-whye-teh/) — education (Wikidata) · 2 papers here · 6,583 citations
- [Fangyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangyu-liu/) — 2019 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 6,521 citations
- [Li Deng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-deng/) — 1990–2012 on 61 papers · 4 papers here · 5,508 citations
- [Joelle Pineau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joelle-pineau/) — education (Wikidata) · 8 papers here · 3,637 citations
- [Qi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-zhang/) — 2007–2016 on 18 papers · 3 papers here · 3,510 citations
- [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/) — 2018–2022 on 3 papers · 6 papers here · 3,050 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 67 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/authors/)

## Works in our library (36)

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

- [Siren's Song in the AI Ocean: A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-siren-s-song-ai-ocean/) — Yue Zhang, Yafu Li, Leyang Cui, et al. · 2023 · 962 citations
- [MMMU: A Massive Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark for Expert AGI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yue-2023-mmmu-massive-multi-discipline-multimodal/) — Xiang Yue, Yuansheng Ni, Kai Zhang, et al. · 2023 · 948 citations
- [Reciprocal Rank Fusion Outperforms Condorcet and Individual Rank Learning Methods](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cormack-2009-reciprocal-rank-fusion-outperforms/) — Gordon V. Cormack, Charles L. A. Clarke, Stefan Büttcher · 2009 · 937 citations
- [Precise Zero-Shot Dense Retrieval without Relevance Labels](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gao-2022-precise-zero-shot-dense-retrieval/) — Luyu Gao, Xueguang Ma, Jimmy Lin, et al. · 2022 · 545 citations
- [End-to-End Open-Domain Question Answering with BERTserini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2019-end-end-open-domain-question/) — Wei Yang, Yuqing Xie, Aileen Lin, et al. · 2019 · 539 citations
- [Document Ranking with a Pretrained Sequence-to-Sequence Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nogueira-2020-document-ranking-pretrained-sequence-sequence/) — Rodrigo Nogueira, Zhiying Jiang, Ronak Pradeep, et al. · 2020 · 538 citations
- [DeeBERT: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating BERT Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xin-2020-deebert-dynamic-early-exiting-accelerating/) — Ji Xin, Raphael Tang, Jaejun Lee, et al. · 2020 · 480 citations
- [Multi-Perspective Sentence Similarity Modeling with Convolutional Neural Networks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2015-multi-perspective-sentence-similarity-modeling/) — Hua He, Kevin Gimpel, Jimmy Lin · 2015 · 447 citations
- [Quality at a Glance: An Audit of Web-Crawled Multilingual Datasets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kreutzer-2021-quality-glance-audit-web-crawled/) — Julia Kreutzer, Isaac Caswell, Lisa Wang, et al. · 2021 · 447 citations
- [MasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/adelani-2021-masakhaner-named-entity-recognition-african/) — David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Jade Abbott, Graham Neubig, et al. · 2021 · 429 citations
- [Efficiently Teaching an Effective Dense Retriever with Balanced Topic Aware Sampling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hofstatter-2021-efficiently-teaching-effective-dense-retriever/) — Sebastian Hofstatter, Sheng-Chieh Lin, Jheng-Hong Yang, et al. · 2021 · 425 citations
- [UnifiedSKG: Unifying and Multi-Tasking Structured Knowledge Grounding with Text-to-Text Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2022-unifiedskg-unifying-multi-tasking-structured/) — Tianbao Xie, Chen Henry Wu, Peng Shi, et al. · 2022 · 405 citations
- [Disentangled Representation Learning for Non-Parallel Text Style Transfer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/john-2019-disentangled-representation-learning-non-parallel/) — Vineet John, Lili Mou, Hareesh Bahuleyan, et al. · 2019 · 396 citations
- [Simple BERT Models for Relation Extraction and Semantic Role Labeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2019-simple-bert-models-relation-extraction/) — Peng Shi, Jimmy Lin · 2019 · 340 citations
- [Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nekoto-2020-participatory-research-low-resourced-machine/) — Wilhelmina Nekoto, Vukosi Marivate, Tshinondiwa Matsila, et al. · 2020 · 333 citations
- [Document Expansion by Query Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nogueira-2019-document-expansion-query-prediction/) — Rodrigo Nogueira, Wei Yang, Jimmy Lin, et al. · 2019 · 317 citations
- [Pairwise Word Interaction Modeling with Deep Neural Networks for Semantic Similarity Measurement](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2016-pairwise-word-interaction-modeling-deep/) — Hua He, Jimmy Lin · 2016 · 293 citations
- [MAmmoTH: Building Math Generalist Models through Hybrid Instruction Tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yue-2023-mammoth-building-math-generalist-models/) — Xiang Yue, Xingwei Qu, Ge Zhang, et al. · 2023 · 288 citations
- [Small Data? No Problem! Exploring the Viability of Pretrained Multilingual Language Models for Low-resourced Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ogueji-2021-small-data-no-problem-exploring/) — Kelechi Ogueji, Yuxin Zhu, Jimmy Lin · 2021 · 265 citations
- [Fine-Tuning LLaMA for Multi-Stage Text Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2023-fine-tuning-llama-multi-stage/) — Xueguang Ma, Liang Wang, Nan Yang, et al. · 2023 · 254 citations
- [Humanity's Last Exam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2025-humanity-s-last-exam/) — Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han, et al. · 2025 · 235 citations
- [Evaluating Open-Domain Question Answering in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kamalloo-2023-evaluating-open-domain-question-answering/) — Ehsan Kamalloo, Nouha Dziri, Charles Clarke, et al. · 2023 · 233 citations
- [EAGLE: Speculative Sampling Requires Rethinking Feature Uncertainty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-eagle-speculative-sampling-requires-rethinking/) — Yuhui Li, Fangyun Wei, Chao Zhang, et al. · 2024 · 204 citations
- [DyLoRA: Parameter-Efficient Tuning of Pre-trained Models using Dynamic Search-Free Low-Rank Adaptation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/valipour-2023-dylora-parameter-efficient-tuning-pre/) — Mojtaba Valipour, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Ivan Kobyzev, et al. · 2023 · 201 citations
- [Large Language Models are few(1)-shot Table Reasoners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-large-language-models-are-few/) — Wenhu Chen · 2023 · 182 citations

[See all 36 works →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/works/)

## Topics

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

[Language models & pretraining (9)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Information retrieval & search (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Question answering (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Named entity recognition (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Low-resource languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Reasoning (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Semantic role labeling (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-role-labeling/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Information extraction (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-extraction/) · [Legal AI (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/legal-ai/) · [Semitic languages (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

## Fields

[Natural language processing (19)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Computing & GPUs (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computing/) · [Mathematics & statistics (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Linguistics & languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/machine-translation/) · [Law (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/law/)

## Collaborates with

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

[Carnegie Mellon University 8](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [Google 7](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [University of Washington 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) [Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) [Technical University of Munich 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technical-university-of-munich/) [University of Maryland, College Park 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) [Saarland University 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/saarland-university/) [Vector Institute 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/vector-institute/) [Stanford University 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) [University of California, Berkeley 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) [Microsoft 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) [University of Edinburgh 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/)

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