Chen Zhao
Assistant Professor
Studies natural language processing, focusing on reasoning, question answering and robustness of language agents.
Chen Zhao's lab at NYU works on reasoning & agents, knowledge, QA & retrieval and trustworthy & safe ML. 32 papers since 2023, 20 at top venues, mostly ACL and EMNLP. 7 PhD students. 6 alumni, most often to Anthropic. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 8/ year
- at T1 venues
- 63%
- PhD students
- 7
- MS students
- 0
- alumni listed
- 6
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 5 papers2026 · T1 5 · collecting
- 14 papers2025 · T1 7
- 9 papers2024 · T1 7
- 4 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, EMNLP, Findings of EMNLP, Findings of ACL, ICML
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Reasoning & agents10 papers
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval10 papers
- Trustworthy & safe ML0 papers
- shanghai0 papers
- nyu shanghai0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20265 papers
- ACL (T1)A Survey of Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning: From Perception, Alignment to Reasoning
- ACL (T1)Beyond single-shot writing: Deep research agents are unreliable at multi-turn report revision
- ICLR (T1)MRMR: A realistic and expert-level multidisciplinary benchmark for reasoning-intensive multimodal retrieval
- ACL (T1)Rethinking Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval: Evaluating and Advancing Retrievers in Agentic Search Systems
- ICML (T1)The Unlearnability Phenomenon in RLVR for Language Models
202514 papers
- AACLAn Analysis of Large Language Models for Simulating User Responses in Surveys
- NAACL (T1)Are Multimodal LLMs Robust Against Adversarial Perturbations? RoMMath: A Systematic Evaluation on Multimodal Math Reasoning
- EMNLP (T1)Diffusion vs. autoregressive language models: A text embedding perspective
- Findings of EMNLPFinLFQA: Evaluating Attributed Text Generation of LLMs in Financial Long-Form Question Answering
- EMNLP (T1)FinTrust: A Comprehensive Benchmark of Trustworthiness Evaluation in Finance Domain
- Findings of ACLInter-Passage Verification for Multi-evidence Multi-answer QA
- EMNLP (T1)LimRank: Less is More for Reasoning-Intensive Information Reranking
- Findings of EMNLPMCTS-RAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Monte Carlo Tree Search
- CVPR (T1)MMVU: Measuring Expert-Level Multi-Discipline Video Understanding
- Findings of EMNLPMRAG: A Modular Retrieval Framework for Time-Sensitive Question Answering
- Findings of ACLPHYSICS: Benchmarking Foundation Models on University-Level Physics Problem Solving
- COLMReasoning Models Know When They’re Right: Probing Hidden States for Self-Verification
20249 papers
- ICML (T1)Do models explain themselves? counterfactual simulatability of natural language explanations
- EMNLP (T1)FinDVer: Explainable Claim Verification over Long and Hybrid-content Financial Documents
- ACL (T1)KnowledgeMath: Knowledge-Intensive Math Word Problem Solving in Finance Domains
- NAACL (T1)Large Language Models Help Humans Verify Truthfulness--Except When They Are Convincingly Wrong
- ACL (T1)Parallel Structures in Pre-training Data Yield In-Context Learning
- Findings of EMNLPSynTQA: Synergistic Table-based Question Answering via Mixture of Text-to-SQL and E2E TQA
- ACL (T1)TAPERA: Enhancing Faithfulness and Interpretability in Long-Form Table QA by Content Planning and Execution-based Reasoning
- TMLR (T1)Two Failures of Self-Consistency in the Multi-Step Reasoning of LLMs
- Findings of ACLYour Co-Workers Matter: Evaluating Collaborative Capabilities of Language Models in Blocks World
20234 papers
- IEEE VisARGUS: Visualization of AI-Assisted Task Guidance in AR
- Findings of EMNLPMixture of Prompt Experts for Generalizable and Interpretable Question Answering
- Findings of EMNLPOn the Relation between Sensitivity and Accuracy in In-context Learning
- ACL (T1)RobuT: A Systematic Study of Table QA Robustness Against Human-Annotated Adversarial Perturbations
Where alumni went6 listed, 33% to industry
Industry 1Academia 2
Most often to
- Anthropic
Also to
- Stanford University
- Yale University
Apply to NYUFall 2027
Computer Science PhD (Courant / Tandon)
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