| 2026 | IWCMC | Adaptive UAV-Assisted Online Task Assignment for Mobile Crowdsensing. | Yichen Li, Zheng Yao, Baoxian Zhang, Cheng Li |
| 2026 | LAK | How Pedagogical Agents' Instructional, Cognitive, and Pastoral Conversational Strategies Interactively Shape Students' Learning. | Bailing Lyu, Chenglu Li, Zheng Yao, Hai Li, Rui Guo |
| 2026 | SIGIR | Where Relevance Emerges: A Layer-Wise Study of Internal Attention for Zero-Shot Re-Ranking. | Haodong Chen, Shengyao Zhuang, Zheng Yao, Guido Zuccon, Teerapong Leelanupab |
| 2026 | SIGIR | Rank-R1: Enhancing Reasoning in LLM-based Document Rerankers via Reinforcement Learning. | Shengyao Zhuang, Xueguang Ma, Zheng Yao, Shuai Wang, Bevan Koopman, Jimmy Lin, Guido Zuccon |
| 2025 | COLING | Empirical Study on Data Attributes Insufficiency of Evaluation Benchmarks for LLMs. | Chuang Liu, Renren Jin, Zheng Yao, Tianyi Li, Liang Cheng, Mark Steedman, Deyi Xiong |
| 2025 | ICONIP | PointSC: A Novel Simplicial Complex-Based Neural Network for Point Cloud Classification. | Xuran Yao, Zheng Yao, Xianwei Zheng, Xutao Li |
| 2025 | IROS | MuSPaCSA: Multi-Scale Parallel-Channel Self-Attention Network for Point Cloud Classification and Segmentation. | Xuran Yao, Xianwei Zheng, Zheng Yao, Xutao Li |
| 2025 | SIGIR | Pre-training vs. Fine-tuning: A Reproducibility Study on Dense Retrieval Knowledge Acquisition. | Zheng Yao, Shuai Wang, Guido Zuccon |
| 2024 | IPIN | Robust Single-point Localization Technique Using Downlink TDOA-AOA Fusion. | Penghao Liu, Zhen Wu, Zheng Yao, Tengfei Wang, Mingquan Lu |
| 2024 | IPIN | Single Epoch Carrier Phase Positioning for Indoor Pseudolite Systems. | Xinchen Zhang, Zheng Yao, Tengfei Wang, Mingquan Lu |
| 2024 | IWCMC | A Task Bundling based Multi-Platform Cooperation Mechanism for Mobile Crowdsensing. | Zixing Zhao, Baoxian Zhang, Chen Liu, Zheng Yao, Cheng Li |
| 2023 | IROS | TWO: A Simple Method of Directly Closing the Loop for LiDAR Odometry. | Zhuo Zhang, Zheng Yao, Mingquan Lu |
| 2022 | CHI | "Brush it Off": How Women Workers Manage and Cope with Bias and Harassment in Gender-agnostic Gig Platforms. | Ning F. Ma, Veronica A. Rivera, Zheng Yao, Dongwook Yoon |
| 2022 | GLOBECOM | Multi-Platform Cooperation based Incentive Mechanism in Opportunistic Mobile Crowdsensing. | Guoliang Ji, Baoxian Zhang, Zheng Yao, Cheng Li |
| 2022 | IPIN | A New Carrier Phase Positioning Method Based on Dual-Antenna Transmitters. | Tengfei Wang, Zheng Yao, Mingquan Lu |
| 2022 | IPIN | OW-LOAM: Observation-Weighted LiDAR Odometry and Mapping. | Zhuo Zhang, Zheng Yao, Mingquan Lu |
| 2021 | CHI | All in One Group: Current Practices, Lessons and Challenges of Chinese Home-School Communication in IM Group Chat. | Jiangtao Gong, Zheng Yao, Zhicong Lu, Qicheng Ding, Yu Zhang, Liuxin Zhang, Qianying Wang |
| 2021 | SMC | Beyond Accuracy: A Feature Crossing Method for Chinese Thesis Reviewer Recommendation. | Yaoguang Yong, Zheng Yao, Yawei Zhao |
| 2019 | CHI | The Channel Matters: Self-disclosure, Reciprocity and Social Support in Online Cancer Support Groups. | Diyi Yang, Zheng Yao, Joseph Seering, Robert E. Kraut |
| 2017 | ICWSM | Self-Disclosure and Channel Difference in Online Health Support Groups. | Diyi Yang, Zheng Yao, Robert E. Kraut |
| 2016 | IWCMC | Charger mobility scheduling and modeling in wireless rechargeable sensor networks. | Jinzhao Suo, Zheng Yao, Baoxian Zhang, Cheng Li |
| 2015 | CSCW | Two is Better Than One: Improving Multilingual Collaboration by Giving Two Machine Translation Outputs. | Ge Gao, Bin Xu, David C. Hau, Zheng Yao, Dan Cosley, Susan R. Fussell |
| 2015 | CSCW | (Infra)structures of Volunteering. | Amy Voida, Zheng Yao, Matthias Korn |
| 2014 | GLOBECOM | A feature scaling based k-nearest neighbor algorithm for indoor positioning system. | Dong Li, Baoxian Zhang, Zheng Yao, Cheng Li |
| 2014 | GLOBECOM | A lightweight ring-based routing protocol for wireless sensor networks with mobile sinks. | Sheng Yu, Dezhong Shang, Zheng Yao, Baoxian Zhang, Cheng Li |
| 2014 | MSWIM | Space-time efficient wireless network coding. | Yan Yan, Baoxian Zhang, Zheng Yao |
| 2011 | GLOBECOM | An Efficient Multi-Stage Data Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Sinks. | Lei Shi, Baoxian Zhang, Zheng Yao, Kui Huang, Jian Ma |
| 2008 | ICA3PP | A Static Multiprocessor Scheduling Algorithm for Arbitrary Directed Task Graphs in Uncertain Environments. | Jun Yang, Xiaochuan Ma, Chaohuan Hou, Zheng Yao |
| 2008 | MOBIHOC | On the need for bidirectional coupling of road traffic microsimulation and network simulation. | Christoph Sommer, Zheng Yao, Reinhard German, Falko Dressler |
| 2006 | MOBIHOC | On-demand software management in sensor networks using profiling techniques. | Zheng Yao, Zengyu Lu, Holger Marquardt, Gerhard Fuchs, Sbastien Truchat, Falko Dressler |