--- title: "Boaz Barak · Harvard University — author profile and papers" description: "Boaz Barak, Harvard University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 49 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boaz-barak/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boaz-barak/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Boaz Barak # Boaz Barak Boaz Barak 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/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Alec Helyar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-helyar/), [Andrea Vallone](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-vallone/), [Bowen Baker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-baker/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102710346) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4053-8927) · [**h-index 49**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102710346) · [191 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102710346) · [13,776 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102710346&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boaz-barak/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,891 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boaz-barak/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2869](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/29/#star-2869) 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=Boaz+Barak) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Boaz+Barak) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Boaz+Barak) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Boaz+Barak) ## Affiliations [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2008–2025 · 32 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🏢**OpenAI** San Francisco · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/) · [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2001–2014 · 73 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) · [🏢**Microsoft Research New England** Cambridge · United States 2001–2015 · 17 papers](https://ror.org/010wkqn50) · [🎓**Weizmann Institute of Science** Rehovot · Israel 2000–2007 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/weizmann-institute-of-science/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2011–2016 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🔬**Institute for Advanced Study** Princeton · United States 2003–2017 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/00f809463) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 7 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 Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper Boaz Barak's papers of 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2025-gpt-oss-120b-gpt-oss/) · [**2024** 1 paper Boaz Barak's papers of 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guan-2024-deliberative-alignment-reasoning-enables-safer/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2025-gpt-oss-120b-gpt-oss/)** *(2025 · 555 citations)* This model card from OpenAI describes gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. They are text-only reasoning models with open weights under the Apache 2.0 license. They are built for agentic workflows: web search, Python execution, function calling and Structured Outputs. Users can set how much effort the model spends on… 2. **[Deliberative Alignment: Reasoning Enables Safer Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guan-2024-deliberative-alignment-reasoning-enables-safer/)** *(2024 · 109 citations)* Conventional safety training (SFT, RLHF) has two weaknesses. LLMs answer instantly without deliberating, and they infer safety rules only indirectly from labeled examples. As a result, they can be jailbroken yet still refuse harmless requests. OpenAI researchers propose Deliberative Alignment, which teaches the model… ## 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. [**gpt-oss-120b & gpt-oss-20b Model Card arXiv:2508.10925**OpenAI: Sandhini Agarwal, Lama Ahmad, Jason Ai, et al.*2025 · 555 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2025-gpt-oss-120b-gpt-oss/) 2. [**Deliberative Alignment: Reasoning Enables Safer Language Models arXiv:2412.16339**Melody Y. Guan, Manas Joglekar, Eric Wallace, et al.*2024 · 109 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guan-2024-deliberative-alignment-reasoning-enables-safer/) 3. **[Hidden Progress in Deep Learning: SGD Learns Parities Near the Computational Limit ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.08799) arXiv:2207.08799 · no summary yet**Boaz Barak et al.*2022 · 39 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alec Helyar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alec-helyar/) - [Andrea Vallone](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-vallone/) - [Bowen Baker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-baker/) - [Eric Wallace](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-wallace/) - [Hyung Won Chung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hyung-won-chung/) - [Jason Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-wei/) - [Lama Ahmad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lama-ahmad/) - [Manas Joglekar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manas-joglekar/) - [Rahul K. Arora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahul-k-arora/) - [Sam Altman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sam-altman/) - [Yu Bai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-bai/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,891 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [93 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boaz-barak/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026