--- title: "Carrie Cai — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Carrie Cai, Google: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2024), h-index 28 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carrie-cai/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carrie-cai/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Carrie Cai # Carrie Cai Carrie Cai has 3 papers in our library, in 2021–2024, most of them on [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Joon Sung Park](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joon-sung-park/), [Meredith Ringel Morris](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meredith-ringel-morris/), [Michael S. Bernstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-s-bernstein/). 3 papers in our library · 2021–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5065663195) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9421-7128) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q89478438) · [**h-index 28**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5065663195) · [56 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5065663195) · [6,369 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5065663195&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carrie-cai/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,162 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carrie-cai/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1906](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/20/#star-1906) 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=Carrie+Cai) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Carrie+Cai) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Carrie+Cai) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Carrie+Cai) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2019–2026 · 32 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2013–2017 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2013–2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) 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 12 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Human-Computer Interaction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/human-computer-interaction/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Business, Management and Accounting · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/business-management-and-accounting/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [General Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/general-social-sciences/) · [Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/business-management-and-accounting/organizational-behavior-and-human-resource-management/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Large language models · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/large-language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carrie-cai/year/2024/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carrie-cai/year/2022/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carrie-cai/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Program Synthesis with Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/austin-2021-program-synthesis-large-language-models/)** *(2021 · 1,192 citations)* The paper asks how far general-purpose large Transformer language models can go at writing short programs in an ordinary language like Python, rather than in a narrow DSL. 2. **[Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2022-social-simulacra-creating-populated-prototypes/)** *(2022 · 310 citations)* People who design online communities usually test their ideas with a small group of recruited users. Many problems, such as trolling, unclear norms or off-topic content, appear only once a space has many members. The authors propose social simulacra, a prototyping approach that uses GPT-3 to fill a planned community… 3. **[LLM Agents Grounded in Self-Reports Enable General-Purpose Simulation of Individuals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2024-llm-agents-grounded-self-reports/)** *(2024 · 119 citations)* Machine-learning models that predict human behavior usually need large amounts of structured data for each specific outcome, so they are hard to reuse for new questions. ## 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. **[Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442) arXiv:2304.03442 · no summary yet**Joon Sung Park et al.*2023 · 2,866 citations* 2. [**Program Synthesis with Large Language Models arXiv:2108.07732**Jacob Austin, Augustus Odena, Maxwell Nye, et al.*2021 · 1,192 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/austin-2021-program-synthesis-large-language-models/) 3. [**Social Simulacra: Creating Populated Prototypes for Social Computing Systems arXiv:2208.04024**Joon Sung Park, Lindsay Popowski, Carrie J. Cai, et al.*2022 · 310 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2022-social-simulacra-creating-populated-prototypes/) 4. [**LLM Agents Grounded in Self-Reports Enable General-Purpose Simulation of Individuals arXiv:2411.10109**Joon Sung Park, Carolyn Q. Zou, Jonne Kamphorst, et al.*2024 · 119 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2024-llm-agents-grounded-self-reports/) 5. **[Simulating Human Behavior Based on Personal Interviews to Power Generative Agent-Based Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/gk45t) no summary yet**Joon-Sung Park et al.*2024* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Joon Sung Park](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joon-sung-park/) ×2 - [Meredith Ringel Morris](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meredith-ringel-morris/) ×2 - [Michael S. Bernstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-s-bernstein/) ×2 - [Percy Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/percy-liang/) ×2 - [Charles Sutton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-sutton/) - [David Dohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dohan/) - [Henryk Michalewski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henryk-michalewski/) - [Jacob Austin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-austin/) - [Maarten Bosma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-bosma/) - [Quoc Viet Le](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/quoc-viet-le/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,162 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [614 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carrie-cai/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026