diff --git a/data/xml/2021.adaptnlp.xml b/data/xml/2021.adaptnlp.xml
index 3e10af2f14..25d1ab1e3c 100644
--- a/data/xml/2021.adaptnlp.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2021.adaptnlp.xml
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@
     </paper>
     <paper id="20">
       <title>Effective Distant Supervision for Temporal Relation Extraction</title>
-      <author><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
+      <author id="xinyu-zhao-mit"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
       <author><first>Shih-Ting</first><last>Lin</last></author>
       <author><first>Greg</first><last>Durrett</last></author>
       <pages>195–203</pages>
diff --git a/data/xml/2021.emnlp.xml b/data/xml/2021.emnlp.xml
index e7faac1620..b512b19b3d 100644
--- a/data/xml/2021.emnlp.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2021.emnlp.xml
@@ -6961,7 +6961,7 @@
     <paper id="506">
       <title>Flexible Generation of Natural Language Deductions</title>
       <author><first>Kaj</first><last>Bostrom</last></author>
-      <author><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
+      <author id="xinyu-zhao-mit"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
       <author><first>Swarat</first><last>Chaudhuri</last></author>
       <author><first>Greg</first><last>Durrett</last></author>
       <pages>6266–6278</pages>
diff --git a/data/xml/2023.acl.xml b/data/xml/2023.acl.xml
index 21f2770765..fe431497b3 100644
--- a/data/xml/2023.acl.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2023.acl.xml
@@ -15392,7 +15392,7 @@
       <author><first>Shiyu</first><last>Gu</last><affiliation>Peking University</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Bingru</first><last>He</last><affiliation>Tsinghua University</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Xinyang</first><last>Li</last><affiliation>Tsinghua University</affiliation></author>
-      <author><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last><affiliation>Tsinghua University</affiliation></author>
+      <author id="xinyu-zhao"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last><affiliation>Tsinghua University</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Zijian</first><last>Zhao</last><affiliation>Tsinghua University</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Yidong</first><last>Lyu</last><affiliation>Chinese University of Hong Kong</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Zhen</first><last>Li</last><affiliation>University of Chinese Academy of Sciences</affiliation></author>
diff --git a/data/xml/2024.findings.xml b/data/xml/2024.findings.xml
index 65cefd28f6..98d82d1672 100644
--- a/data/xml/2024.findings.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2024.findings.xml
@@ -29228,7 +29228,7 @@ hai-coaching/</abstract>
     <paper id="716">
       <title>Learning to Refine with Fine-Grained Natural Language Feedback</title>
       <author><first>Manya</first><last>Wadhwa</last><affiliation>University of Texas at Austin</affiliation></author>
-      <author><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last><affiliation>University of Texas at Austin</affiliation></author>
+      <author id="xinyu-zhao-mit"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last><affiliation>University of Texas at Austin</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Junyi Jessy</first><last>Li</last><affiliation>University of Texas, Austin</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Greg</first><last>Durrett</last><affiliation>University of Texas, Austin</affiliation></author>
       <pages>12281-12308</pages>
diff --git a/data/xml/2025.emnlp.xml b/data/xml/2025.emnlp.xml
index 0beb9475e3..f45acba9df 100644
--- a/data/xml/2025.emnlp.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2025.emnlp.xml
@@ -7933,7 +7933,7 @@
       <author orcid="0009-0006-9548-2330"><first>Zhen</first><last>Tan</last></author>
       <author><first>Ajay Kumar</first><last>Jaiswal</last><affiliation>Apple</affiliation></author>
       <author orcid="0009-0003-7861-0458"><first>Huaizhi</first><last>Qu</last><affiliation>Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</affiliation></author>
-      <author orcid="0009-0000-0253-5488"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
+      <author orcid="0009-0000-0253-5488" id="xinyu-zhao"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
       <author><first>Qi</first><last>Lin</last></author>
       <author><first>Yu</first><last>Cheng</last><affiliation>The Chinese University of Hong Kong</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Andrew</first><last>Kwong</last><affiliation>Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</affiliation></author>
@@ -11869,7 +11869,7 @@
       <author><first>Weiqing</first><last>Luo</last><affiliation>Arizona State University</affiliation></author>
       <author orcid="0009-0006-9548-2330"><first>Zhen</first><last>Tan</last></author>
       <author><first>Yifan</first><last>Li</last></author>
-      <author orcid="0009-0000-0253-5488"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
+      <author orcid="0009-0000-0253-5488" id="xinyu-zhao"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
       <author orcid="0000-0002-1433-551X"><first>Kwonjoon</first><last>Lee</last><affiliation>Honda Research Institute USA</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Behzad</first><last>Dariush</last><affiliation>Honda Research Institute USA</affiliation></author>
       <author orcid="0000-0001-7774-8197"><first>Tianlong</first><last>Chen</last><affiliation>University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</affiliation></author>
diff --git a/data/xml/2025.findings.xml b/data/xml/2025.findings.xml
index 8e9aac0d99..e3132c3a2a 100644
--- a/data/xml/2025.findings.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2025.findings.xml
@@ -7398,7 +7398,7 @@
     <paper id="73">
       <title><tex-math>\texttt{UQ-Merge}</tex-math>: Uncertainty Guided Multimodal Large Language Model Merging</title>
       <author orcid="0009-0003-7861-0458"><first>Huaizhi</first><last>Qu</last><affiliation>Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill</affiliation></author>
-      <author orcid="0009-0000-0253-5488"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
+      <author orcid="0009-0000-0253-5488" id="xinyu-zhao"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
       <author><first>Jie</first><last>Peng</last><affiliation>University of Science and Technology of China</affiliation></author>
       <author orcid="0000-0002-1433-551X"><first>Kwonjoon</first><last>Lee</last><affiliation>Honda Research Institute USA</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Behzad</first><last>Dariush</last><affiliation>Honda Research Institute USA</affiliation></author>
diff --git a/data/xml/2025.naacl.xml b/data/xml/2025.naacl.xml
index ca8214ee1f..3aec89b4bc 100644
--- a/data/xml/2025.naacl.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2025.naacl.xml
@@ -3949,7 +3949,7 @@
     <paper id="287">
       <title><fixed-case>G</fixed-case>uide<fixed-case>LLM</fixed-case>: Exploring <fixed-case>LLM</fixed-case>-Guided Conversation with Applications in Autobiography Interviewing</title>
       <author><first>Jinhao</first><last>Duan</last></author>
-      <author orcid="0009-0000-0253-5488"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
+      <author orcid="0009-0000-0253-5488" id="xinyu-zhao"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
       <author><first>Zhuoxuan</first><last>Zhang</last><affiliation>Columbia University and Brown University</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Eunhye Grace</first><last>Ko</last></author>
       <author><first>Lily</first><last>Boddy</last></author>
diff --git a/data/xml/Y18.xml b/data/xml/Y18.xml
index a7266d1ff4..7199833df4 100644
--- a/data/xml/Y18.xml
+++ b/data/xml/Y18.xml
@@ -559,7 +559,7 @@
     <paper id="68">
       <title>Domain Adaptation Using a Combination of Multiple Embeddings for Sentiment Analysis</title>
       <author><first>Hiroyuki</first><last>Shinnou</last></author>
-      <author><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
+      <author id="xinyu-zhao"><first>Xinyu</first><last>Zhao</last></author>
       <author><first>Kanako</first><last>Komiya</last></author>
       <url hash="22f9e9e1">Y18-1068</url>
       <bibkey>shinnou-etal-2018-domain</bibkey>
diff --git a/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml b/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
index 55b9332e91..82dfadbfeb 100644
--- a/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
+++ b/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
@@ -1015,6 +1015,14 @@
   id: jean-francois-bonastre
   variants:
   - {first: Jean-Francois, last: Bonastre}
+- canonical: {first: Xinyu, last: Zhao}
+  id: xinyu-zhao-mit
+  orcid: 0009-0000-0145-2955
+  institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
+  comment: MIT
+- canonical: {first: Xinyu, last: Zhao}
+  id: xinyu-zhao
+  comment: May refer to several people
 - canonical: {first: Guillaume, last: Bonfante}
   variants:
   - {first: Guillame, last: Bonfante}