Yao Zhu

810 total citations · 1 hit paper
41 papers, 553 citations indexed

About

Yao Zhu is a scholar working on Biomedical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanical Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Yao Zhu has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 553 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Biomedical Engineering, 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 9 papers in Mechanical Engineering. Recurrent topics in Yao Zhu's work include Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes (12 papers), Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (7 papers) and Coal Properties and Utilization (6 papers). Yao Zhu is often cited by papers focused on Thermochemical Biomass Conversion Processes (12 papers), Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (7 papers) and Coal Properties and Utilization (6 papers). Yao Zhu collaborates with scholars based in China, United States and Australia. Yao Zhu's co-authors include Qiaoxia Yuan, Baojun Yi, Shuiping Yan, Ming Wang, Yongguang Zou, Mengxiang Fang, Jianmeng Cen, Qinhui Wang, Zhongyang Luo and Hongyun Hu and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and Energy.

In The Last Decade

Yao Zhu

37 papers receiving 530 citations

Hit Papers

Investigating customers’ responses to artificial intellig... 2023 2026 2024 2025 2023 25 50 75
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Investigating customers’ responses to artificial intelligence chatbots in online travel agencies: the moderating role of product familiarity
    2023 89 citations Yao Zhu et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Yao Zhu China 12 166 122 120 82 60 41 553
Mehran Akrami Iran 11 164 1.0× 62 0.5× 37 0.3× 33 0.4× 9 0.1× 19 428
Pengyu Wang China 16 21 0.1× 210 1.7× 37 0.3× 65 0.8× 16 0.3× 56 632
Kehong Li China 10 171 1.0× 92 0.8× 46 0.4× 18 0.2× 5 0.1× 39 483
Feng Guo China 18 33 0.2× 47 0.4× 21 0.2× 71 0.9× 14 0.2× 83 734
Andreas Kyek Germany 11 73 0.4× 147 1.2× 79 0.7× 56 0.7× 3 0.1× 21 1.2k
Guangli Zhu China 21 631 3.8× 391 3.2× 164 1.4× 489 6.0× 29 0.5× 55 1.1k
Tong Lu China 14 58 0.3× 48 0.4× 30 0.3× 35 0.4× 8 0.1× 49 751

Countries citing papers authored by Yao Zhu

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yao Zhu

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yao Zhu

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yao Zhu. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yao Zhu based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yao Zhu. Yao Zhu is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Wang, Shuhui, et al.. (2025). Enhancing the Robustness of Vision-Language Foundation Models by Alignment Perturbation. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 20. 7091–7105.
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Zhu, Yao, et al.. (2024). Survey on Knowledge Distillation for Large Language Models: Methods, Evaluation, and Application. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology. 16(6). 1–27. 15 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yao, Xiaofeng Mao, Yue Wang, et al.. (2024). Enhancing Few-Shot CLIP With Semantic-Aware Fine-Tuning. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems. 36(7). 12349–12362. 2 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yao, Yuefeng Chen, Xiaodan Li, et al.. (2024). Rethinking Out-of-Distribution Detection From a Human-Centric Perspective. International Journal of Computer Vision. 132(10). 4633–4650. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Qinhui, et al.. (2023). Experimental Research on the Gas-Solid Flow Characteristics in Large-Scale Dual Fluidized Bed Reactor. Energies. 16(21). 7239–7239. 2 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yao, et al.. (2023). Information-Containing Adversarial Perturbation for Combating Facial Manipulation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 18. 2046–2059. 11 indexed citations
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Fang, Mengxiang, et al.. (2023). Pressurized oxy-fuel combustion of pulverized coal blended with wheat straw: Thermochemical characterization and synergetic effect. Journal of the Energy Institute. 108. 101237–101237. 13 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yao, Xiaodan Li, Kejiang Chen, et al.. (2022). Toward Understanding and Boosting Adversarial Transferability From a Distribution Perspective. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 31. 6487–6501. 37 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yao, et al.. (2022). RGGID: A Robust and Green GAN-Fake Image Detector. APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing. 11(2). 1–26. 3 indexed citations
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Xiao, Wei, Yao Zhu, & Shu‐Tao Xia. (2021). Batch Normalization Assisted Adversarial Pruning: Towards Lightweight, Sparse and Robust Models. 1–8. 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yao, Wei Xiao, & Yue Zhu. (2021). Efficient Adversarial Defense without Adversarial Training: A Batch Normalization Approach. 1–8. 5 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yao, et al.. (2020). The relationship of structure and organic matter adsorption characteristics by magnetic cattle manure biochar prepared at different pyrolysis temperatures. Journal of environmental chemical engineering. 8(5). 104112–104112. 43 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yao, et al.. (2018). Predicting ICU mortality by supervised bidirectional LSTM networks.. Lanzhou University Institutional Repository. 49–60. 5 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yao, et al.. (2015). Evaluation Method for Energy Saving Effect of Reflective Thermal Insulation Coatings. Applied Mechanics and Materials. 744-746. 2348–2353. 1 indexed citations
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Zhu, Yao, et al.. (2009). Influence of Superplasticizer and Shrinkage-Reducing Admixtures on Early Age Shrinkage of Concrete. Key engineering materials. 405-406. 166–173. 3 indexed citations

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