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Ran Zhou

Computer Science · The Ohio State University

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Mid career · publishing since 2006
Topic ModelingNatural Language Processing TechniquesDecision-Making and Behavioral EconomicsNeural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesBehavioral Health and Interventions

Publications

20

Citations

208

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

20

Publishing since 2006

Research summary
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This researcher's publication record spans two fairly distinct areas: computational modeling of human decision-making and risk-taking behavior (e.g., using tasks like the Balloon Analogue Risk Task to study how people learn and make choices under uncertainty), and natural language processing methods including text generation, named entity recognition, and multi-modal language models. Some work also touches on social and behavioral psychology topics such as social comparison, insomnia, and hormone-behavior links. Given the mix of topics, this may represent shared authorship across multiple people with the same name, or a genuinely interdisciplinary profile bridging cognitive science and NLP/AI.

Computational modeling of decision-making and risk-takingNatural language processing and text generationCognitive and behavioral psychologySocial and affective neuroscienceMulti-modal and large language models

Publication output has been variable over the last decade, with some gap years (2019, 2023) followed by increases in 2024-2025, suggesting an uneven but currently active pace.

Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 1.8/year recently
2017: 1 publication172018: 2 publications18192020: 2 publications202021: 4 publications4212022: 2 publications22232024: 3 publications242025: 4 publications42526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • arXiv (Cornell University)×3
  • Cognitive Psychology×2
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library)×2
  • Addictive Behaviors×1
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General×1
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Last updated Jul 19, 2026.

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