--- title: "Adam Fourney — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Adam Fourney: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 23 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-fourney/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-fourney/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Adam Fourney # Adam Fourney Adam Fourney has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Gagan Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gagan-bansal/), [Hussein Mozannar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hussein-mozannar/), [Cheng Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-tan/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5071293344) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4986-7794) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q84986277) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5071293344) · [95 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5071293344) · [3,621 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5071293344&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-fourney/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 54 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-fourney/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9058](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/91/#star-9058) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Adam+Fourney) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Adam+Fourney) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Adam+Fourney) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Adam+Fourney) ## Affiliations [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2016–2025 · 45 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 2009–2021 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) · [🎓**University of Ottawa** Ottawa · Canada 2002–2007 · 1 paperEducation 2002–2007 · Baccalaureate in Science, Honours in Computer Science Concentration in Mathematics-Sciences, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-ottawa/) 🏛️**Microsoft Research** Redmond · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2015Employment since 2015 · Principal Researcher 🏛️**Microsoft Research** [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2015Employment since 2015 🏛️**University of Waterloo Faculty of Mathematics** Waterloo · [Canada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/canada/) 2007–2015Education 2007–2009 · Master of Mathematics, Computer ScienceEducation 2010–2015 · Doctor of Philosophy, Computer Science From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-fourney/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-fourney/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fourney-2024-magentic-one-generalist-multi/)** *(2024 · 54 citations)* General-purpose AI agents have to handle varied multi-step tasks, such as browsing the web, working with files, and writing and running code, rather than performing well in only one narrow domain. 2. **[Navigating Rifts in Human-LLM Grounding: Study and Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shaikh-2025-navigating-rifts-human-llm-grounding/)** *(2025 · 19 citations)* Conversational LLMs are tuned mainly to execute instructions. They rarely do the joint work people use to build shared understanding, such as checking assumptions, asking what was meant, or proposing next steps. The authors studied this gap using logs from three sources: WildChat, Bing Chat, and the Wizard-of-Oz… ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Gagan Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gagan-bansal/) ×2 - [Hussein Mozannar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hussein-mozannar/) ×2 - [Cheng Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-tan/) - [Eduardo Salinas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduardo-salinas/) - [Eric Horvitz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-horvitz/) - [Friederike Niedtner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/friederike-niedtner/) - [Grace Proebsting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/grace-proebsting/) - [Omar Shaikh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-shaikh/) - [Peter Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-chang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 54 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-fourney/cited-by/). Updated 4 November 2026