Ran Xu
Scholar

Ran Xu

Google Scholar ID: mcC5NzwAAAAJ
Emory University
Natural Language ProcessingLarge Language Models
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
609
 
H-index
14
 
i10-index
16
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
8
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • [{'Paper': 'AceSearcher: Bootstrapping Reasoning and Search for LLMs via Reinforced Self-Play', 'Conference': 'NeurIPS 2025 (Spotlight)'}, {'Paper': 'Improving GUI Agents with Tutorials', 'Conference': 'EMNLP 2025 Main Conference'}, {'Papers': 'Three papers on LLMs for Text Retrieval, LLM Agents for Complex Tabular Reasoning, and LLM Test-time Adaptation', 'Conference': 'EMNLP 2024'}, {'Papers': 'Two papers on Synthetic Data Generation and Retrieval Augmented Clinical Predictions', 'Conference': 'ACL 2024'}, {'Paper': 'Counterfactual and Factual Reasoning over Hypergraphs for Interpretable Clinical Predictions on EHR', 'Award': 'Best Paper Award at Machine Learning for Health 2022'}]
Background
  • Currently a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Emory University, with a primary research interest in large language models, particularly search-augmented and tool-augmented language models. Additionally, worked on synthetic data generation, LLM alignment, and few/zero-shot learning.
Miscellany
  • Looking for fulltime industrial opportunities starting from Fall 2025. Feel free to reach out if there is a good fit!