Kenny Q. Zhu
Scholar

Kenny Q. Zhu

Google Scholar ID: ZIRJ6lIAAAAJ
University of Texas at Arlington
Natural Language ProcessingArtificial IntelligenceKnowledge EngineeringAnimal Communication
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
3,761
 
H-index
28
 
i10-index
62
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
47
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Paper "Toward Automatic Discovery of a Canine Phonetic Alphabet" won the ACL 2025 Outstanding Paper Award (26 out of 3,400 papers)
  • Three papers on canine vocalization accepted by ACM Multimedia 2025
  • Two papers accepted by ACL 2025 main conference; one by AAAI 2025; three by NAACL 2025
  • Two papers accepted by EMNLP 2024 Findings; one by ICLR 2024
  • Multiple student-first-author papers cited over 50 times, published in top venues including ICDE, ACL, EMNLP, AAAI, and KR
  • Research featured in major media outlets: The Atlantic, Dallas Morning News, CBS 11 Texas, ABC 8 (DFW), and UTA’s The Shorthorn
  • Co-organized the Canine Vocalization Understanding Challenge as part of the IJCAI 2025 Competition Track (ACL2)