--- title: "Akshay Nambi · Microsoft Research — author profile and papers" description: "Akshay Nambi, Microsoft Research: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akshay-nambi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akshay-nambi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Akshay Nambi # Akshay Nambi Akshay Nambi has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Tanuja Ganu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanuja-ganu/), [Haizhou Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haizhou-shi/), [Hao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-wang/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5089950211) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0921-4828) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131113126) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5089950211) · [43 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089950211) · [437 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089950211&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akshay-nambi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 296 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akshay-nambi/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5426](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/55/#star-5426) 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=Akshay+Nambi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Akshay+Nambi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Akshay+Nambi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Akshay+Nambi) ## Affiliations [🏢**Microsoft Research** Bengaluru · India 2018–2026 · 17 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2021–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Applied Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/applied-mathematics/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akshay-nambi/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akshay-nambi/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MEGA: Multilingual Evaluation of Generative AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahuja-2023-mega-multilingual-evaluation-generative-ai/)** *(2023 · 285 citations)* Most evaluations of generative large language models have focused on English, so it is unclear how well they handle other languages. 2. **[Multimodal Needle in a Haystack: Benchmarking Long-Context Capability of Multimodal Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2025-multimodal-needle-haystack-benchmarking-long/)** *(2025 · 21 citations)* Evaluations of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) usually involve one or a few images, or rely on too few test cases to be statistically meaningful. 3. **[Exposing the Achilles' Heel: Evaluating LLMs Ability to Handle Mistakes in Mathematical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2025-exposing-achilles-heel-evaluating-llms/)** *(2025 · 8 citations)* Most benchmarks for math word problems (MWPs) check only whether an LLM reaches the right final answer. They largely ignore whether the model can spot and repair flawed reasoning, which matters for tutoring and other educational uses. The authors built MWP-MISTAKE, a benchmark that pairs each problem with correct and… ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**MEGA: Multilingual Evaluation of Generative AI arXiv:2303.12528**Kabir Ahuja, Harshita Diddee, Rishav Hada, et al.*2023 · 285 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ahuja-2023-mega-multilingual-evaluation-generative-ai/) 2. **[Multimodal Needle in a Haystack: Benchmarking Long-Context Capability of Multimodal Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2025-multimodal-needle-haystack-benchmarking-long/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Hengyi Wang, Haizhou Shi, Shiwei Tan, et al.*2025 · 21 citations* 3. **[TorchSpatial: A Location Encoding Framework and Benchmark for Spatial Representation Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/079017-2588) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Nemin Wu et al.*2024 · 15 citations* 4. **[Exposing the Achilles' Heel: Evaluating LLMs Ability to Handle Mistakes in Mathematical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2025-exposing-achilles-heel-evaluating-llms/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Joykirat Singh, Akshay Nambi, Vibhav Vineet*2025 · 8 citations* 5. **[Think Right: Learning to Mitigate Under-Over Thinking via Adaptive, Attentive Compression ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01581) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Joykirat Singh et al.*2025 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tanuja Ganu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanuja-ganu/) ×2 - [Haizhou Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haizhou-shi/) - [Hao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-wang/) - [Harshita Diddee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harshita-diddee/) - [Kabir Ahuja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kabir-ahuja/) - [Kalika Bali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kalika-bali/) - [Krithika Ramesh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/krithika-ramesh/) - [Millicent Ochieng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/millicent-ochieng/) - [Prachi Jain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prachi-jain/) - [Rishav Hada](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishav-hada/) - [Sunayana Sitaram](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sunayana-sitaram/) ## 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/) - [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/) - neural information processing systems ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 296 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [79 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akshay-nambi/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026