--- title: "Avanika Narayan — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Avanika Narayan, Stanford University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avanika-narayan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avanika-narayan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Avanika Narayan # Avanika Narayan Avanika Narayan has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Christopher Ré](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-re/), [Simran Arora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simran-arora/), [Andrew Hojel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-hojel/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5039749428) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039749428) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039749428) · [2,572 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039749428&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avanika-narayan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,077 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avanika-narayan/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5982](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/60/#star-5982) 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=Avanika+Narayan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Avanika+Narayan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Avanika+Narayan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Avanika+Narayan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2021–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Networks and Communications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-networks-and-communications/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avanika-narayan/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avanika-narayan/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Ask Me Anything: A simple strategy for prompting language models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arora-2022-ask-me-anything-simple-strategy/)** *(2022 · 154 citations)* Prompting large language models is fragile: minor wording changes can shift accuracy a lot, so practitioners often spend significant effort hand-tuning a single prompt per task. 2. **[Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arora-2023-language-models-enable-simple-systems/)** *(2023 · 94 citations)* Turning messy document collections such as web pages, PDFs and plain text into queryable tables is a long-standing data-management goal. ## All works 3 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. [**Ask Me Anything: A simple strategy for prompting language models arXiv:2210.02441**Simran Arora, Avanika Narayan, Mayee F. Chen, et al.*2022 · 154 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arora-2022-ask-me-anything-simple-strategy/) 2. **[Language Models Enable Simple Systems for Generating Structured Views of Heterogeneous Data Lakes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arora-2023-language-models-enable-simple-systems/) [Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-vldb-endowment/)**Simran Arora, Brandon Yang, Sabri Eyuboglu, et al.*2023 · 94 citations* 3. **[Neural Generation Meets Real People: Building a Social, Informative Open-Domain Dialogue Agent ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigdial-1.37/) Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue · no summary yet**Ethan A. Chi et al.*2022 · 9 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Christopher Ré](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-re/) ×2 - [Simran Arora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simran-arora/) ×2 - [Andrew Hojel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-hojel/) - [Frederic Sala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederic-sala/) - [Ines Chami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ines-chami/) - [Neel Guha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neel-guha/) - [Sabri Eyuboglu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sabri-eyuboglu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-vldb-endowment/): [Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/proceedings-of-the-vldb-endowment/2023/) - Proceedings of the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,077 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [226 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/avanika-narayan/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026