--- title: "Aishwarya Padmakumar — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Aishwarya Padmakumar: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2025), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-padmakumar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-padmakumar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Aishwarya Padmakumar # Aishwarya Padmakumar Aishwarya Padmakumar has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Dilek Hakkani-Tur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/), [Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/makesh-narsimhan-sreedhar/), [Spandana Gella](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/spandana-gella/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5041020656) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5041020656) · [42 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5041020656) · [321 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5041020656&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-padmakumar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 53 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-padmakumar/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7357](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/74/#star-7357) 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=Aishwarya+Padmakumar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Aishwarya+Padmakumar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Aishwarya+Padmakumar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Aishwarya+Padmakumar) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2021–2024 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2017–2020 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · China 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 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/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [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/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-padmakumar/year/2025/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-padmakumar/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AEGIS2.0: A Diverse AI Safety Dataset and Risks Taxonomy for Alignment of LLM Guardrails](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2025-aegis2-0-diverse-ai-safety/)** *(2025 · 53 citations)* Content moderation for LLMs needs openly licensed, human-labeled training data that covers many kinds of harm. 2. **[Dialog Acts for Task Driven Embodied Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gella-2022-dialog-acts-task-driven-embodied/)** *(2022 · 16 citations)* Household robots that take instructions in natural language must understand requests given at different levels of detail and know when to ask for missing information. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[AEGIS2.0: A Diverse AI Safety Dataset and Risks Taxonomy for Alignment of LLM Guardrails](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2025-aegis2-0-diverse-ai-safety/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Shaona Ghosh, Prasoon Varshney, Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar, et al.*2025 · 53 citations* 2. **[VLN-Video: Utilizing Driving Videos for Outdoor Vision-and-Language Navigation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i17.29813) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Jialu Li et al.*2024 · 18 citations* 3. **[Dialog Acts for Task Driven Embodied Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gella-2022-dialog-acts-task-driven-embodied/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Spandana Gella, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Patrick Lange, et al.*2022 · 16 citations* 4. **[ALFRED-L: Investigating the Role of Language for Action Learning in Interactive Visual Environments ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.636/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Arjun Akula et al.*2022 · 2 citations* 5. **[On the Limits of Evaluating Embodied Agent Model Generalization Using Validation Sets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.insights-1.15/) Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP · no summary yet**Hyounghun Kim et al.*2022* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dilek Hakkani-Tur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/) - [Makesh Narsimhan Sreedhar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/makesh-narsimhan-sreedhar/) - [Spandana Gella](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/spandana-gella/) - [Traian Rebedea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/traian-rebedea/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) - [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/): [SIGDIAL 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2022/) - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Insights from Negative Results in NLP ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 53 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-padmakumar/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026