diff --git a/data/xml/2023.findings.xml b/data/xml/2023.findings.xml
index 3e91e17843..8c9c546299 100644
--- a/data/xml/2023.findings.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2023.findings.xml
@@ -26147,7 +26147,7 @@
     </paper>
     <paper id="888">
       <title>Dialogue Medical Information Extraction with Medical-Item Graph and Dialogue-Status Enriched Representation</title>
-      <author><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
+      <author id="lei-gao"><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
       <author><first>Xinnan</first><last>Zhang</last></author>
       <author><first>Xian</first><last>Wu</last></author>
       <author><first>Shen</first><last>Ge</last></author>
diff --git a/data/xml/2024.findings.xml b/data/xml/2024.findings.xml
index 65cefd28f6..9a6558dbcb 100644
--- a/data/xml/2024.findings.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2024.findings.xml
@@ -3780,7 +3780,7 @@
     </paper>
     <paper id="132">
       <title>Ethos: Rectifying Language Models in Orthogonal Parameter Space</title>
-      <author><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
+      <author id="lei-gao-usc"><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
       <author><first>Yue</first><last>Niu</last><affiliation>University of Southern California</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Tingting</first><last>Tang</last><affiliation>University of Southern California</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Salman</first><last>Avestimehr</last><affiliation>University of Southern California, University of Southern California and University of Southern California</affiliation></author>
diff --git a/data/xml/2025.emnlp.xml b/data/xml/2025.emnlp.xml
index 0beb9475e3..c43c53a97d 100644
--- a/data/xml/2025.emnlp.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2025.emnlp.xml
@@ -15193,7 +15193,7 @@
     </paper>
     <paper id="1022">
       <title><fixed-case>M</fixed-case>obi<fixed-case>ZO</fixed-case>: Enabling Efficient <fixed-case>LLM</fixed-case> Fine-Tuning at the Edge via Inference Engines</title>
-      <author><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
+      <author id="lei-gao"><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
       <author><first>Amir</first><last>Ziashahabi</last><affiliation>University of Southern California</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Yue</first><last>Niu</last><affiliation>University of Southern California</affiliation></author>
       <author><first>Salman</first><last>Avestimehr</last><affiliation>University of Southern California</affiliation></author>
diff --git a/data/xml/2025.findings.xml b/data/xml/2025.findings.xml
index 8e9aac0d99..0380182456 100644
--- a/data/xml/2025.findings.xml
+++ b/data/xml/2025.findings.xml
@@ -20316,7 +20316,7 @@
     <paper id="997">
       <title><fixed-case>KVPR</fixed-case>: Efficient <fixed-case>LLM</fixed-case> Inference with <fixed-case>I</fixed-case>/<fixed-case>O</fixed-case>-Aware <fixed-case>KV</fixed-case> Cache Partial Recomputation</title>
       <author><first>Chaoyi</first><last>Jiang</last><affiliation>University of Southern California</affiliation></author>
-      <author><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
+      <author id="lei-gao-usc"><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
       <author><first>Hossein Entezari</first><last>Zarch</last></author>
       <author orcid="0000-0002-4633-6867"><first>Murali</first><last>Annavaram</last><affiliation>University of Southern California</affiliation></author>
       <pages>19474-19488</pages>
diff --git a/data/xml/I17.xml b/data/xml/I17.xml
index ca9207081e..f1b792cbd5 100644
--- a/data/xml/I17.xml
+++ b/data/xml/I17.xml
@@ -818,7 +818,7 @@
     </paper>
     <paper id="78">
       <title>Recognizing Explicit and Implicit Hate Speech Using a Weakly Supervised Two-path Bootstrapping Approach</title>
-      <author><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
+      <author id="lei-gao"><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
       <author><first>Alexis</first><last>Kuppersmith</last></author>
       <author><first>Ruihong</first><last>Huang</last></author>
       <pages>774–782</pages>
diff --git a/data/xml/N19.xml b/data/xml/N19.xml
index 493508c090..52cf49c5f5 100644
--- a/data/xml/N19.xml
+++ b/data/xml/N19.xml
@@ -2221,7 +2221,7 @@
     </paper>
     <paper id="179">
       <title>Modeling Document-level Causal Structures for Event Causal Relation Identification</title>
-      <author><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
+      <author id="lei-gao"><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
       <author><first>Prafulla Kumar</first><last>Choubey</last></author>
       <author><first>Ruihong</first><last>Huang</last></author>
       <pages>1808–1817</pages>
diff --git a/data/xml/R17.xml b/data/xml/R17.xml
index 62ed1d104a..f708f2532d 100644
--- a/data/xml/R17.xml
+++ b/data/xml/R17.xml
@@ -400,7 +400,7 @@
     </paper>
     <paper id="36">
       <title>Detecting Online Hate Speech Using Context Aware Models</title>
-      <author><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
+      <author id="lei-gao"><first>Lei</first><last>Gao</last></author>
       <author><first>Ruihong</first><last>Huang</last></author>
       <pages>260–266</pages>
       <doi>10.26615/978-954-452-049-6_036</doi>
diff --git a/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml b/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
index 55b9332e91..c034becdbe 100644
--- a/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
+++ b/data/yaml/name_variants.yaml
@@ -1819,6 +1819,14 @@
 - canonical: {first: Odbayar, last: Chimeddorj}
   variants:
   - {first: Chimeddorj, last: Odbayar}
+- canonical: {first: Lei, last: Gao}
+  id: lei-gao-usc
+  orcid: 0009-0004-7541-4029
+  institution: University of Southern California
+  comment: USC
+- canonical: {first: Lei, last: Gao}
+  id: lei-gao
+  comment: May refer to several people
 - canonical: {first: Nancy, last: Chinchor}
   id: nancy-chinchor
   variants: