--- title: "Danish Contractor — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Danish Contractor, IBM: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danish-contractor/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danish-contractor/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Danish Contractor # Danish Contractor Danish Contractor has 2 papers in our library, in 2026; often with [Praveen Venkateswaran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/praveen-venkateswaran/), [Rudra Murthy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rudra-murthy/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5032458692) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5032458692) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032458692) · [9 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032458692&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danish-contractor/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 6 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danish-contractor/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11637](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/117/#star-11637) 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=Danish+Contractor) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Danish+Contractor) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Danish+Contractor) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Danish+Contractor) ## Affiliations [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🏢**IBM** Bengaluru · India 2009–2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm-india/) 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 5 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danish-contractor/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Spotlight Your Instructions: Instruction-following with Dynamic Attention Steering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/venkateswaran-2026-spotlight-your-instructions-instruction-following/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* LLMs frequently overlook explicit instructions, especially when prompts are long or contain many constraints. 2. **[KCIF: Knowledge-Conditioned Instruction Following](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/murthy-2026-kcif-knowledge-conditioned-instruction-following/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Standard LLM benchmarks usually test knowledge and reasoning separately from instruction following. In real use, however, people often combine the two, for example by asking a model to answer a question and then transform that answer. The authors build KCIF to measure this combination. They take five multiple-choice… ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Praveen Venkateswaran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/praveen-venkateswaran/) ×2 - [Rudra Murthy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rudra-murthy/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 6 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danish-contractor/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026