--- title: "David Evans · University of Virginia — author profile and papers" description: "David Evans, University of Virginia: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 62 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-evans/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-evans/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / David Evans # David Evans David Evans has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/), [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/), [Niloofar Mireshghallah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niloofar-mireshghallah/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5027001546) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7988-8943) · [**h-index 62**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5027001546) · [329 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5027001546) · [22,537 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5027001546&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-evans/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 190 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-evans/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7009](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/71/#star-7009) 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=David+Evans) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=David+Evans) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=David+Evans) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=David+Evans) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Virginia** Charlottesville · United States 2001–2026 · 108 papersEmployment · Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-virginia/) · [🎓**Cardiff University** Cardiff · United Kingdom 1998–2025 · 48 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cardiff-university/) · [🎓**University of Wales** Cardiff · United Kingdom 1980–2018 · 39 papers](https://ror.org/01se4f844) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2007–2012 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**Swansea University** Swansea · United Kingdom 1989–1998 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/swansea-university/) · [🎓**University of Warwick** Coventry · United Kingdom 1980–1990 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-warwick/) · [🎓**University of Derby** Derby · United Kingdom 2012–2016 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/02yhrrk59) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1994–2003 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**Dublin Institute For Advanced Studies** Dublin · Ireland 1976–1977 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/051sx6d27) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 1996–2005 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 16 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 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 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 [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-evans/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-evans/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Do Membership Inference Attacks Work on Large Language Models?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/duan-2024-membership-inference-attacks-work-large/)** *(2024 · 87 citations)* This paper asks whether standard membership inference attacks (MIAs) can tell if a given text was in an LLM's pre-training data. 2. **[Inferring Events from Time Series using Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tan-2026-inferring-events-time-series-language/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper asks whether large language models can work backwards from a numeric time series to the real-world events that likely produced it. ## All works 5 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. **[Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1561/2200000083) Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning · no summary yet**Peter Kairouz et al.*2020 · 6,432 citations* 2. [**Do Membership Inference Attacks Work on Large Language Models? arXiv:2402.07841**Michael Duan, Anshuman Suri, Niloofar Mireshghallah, et al.*2024 · 87 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/duan-2024-membership-inference-attacks-work-large/) 3. **[Finding Friends and Flipping Frenemies: Automatic Paraphrase Dataset Augmentation Using Graph Theory ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.findings-emnlp.426/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 · no summary yet**Hannah Chen, Yangfeng Ji, David Evans*2020 · 17 citations* 4. **[Pointwise Paraphrase Appraisal is Potentially Problematic ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-srw.20/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop · no summary yet**Hannah Chen, Yangfeng Ji, David Evans*2020 · 10 citations* 5. **[Inferring Events from Time Series using Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tan-2026-inferring-events-time-series-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mingtian Tan, Mike A Merrill, Zachary Gottesman, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/) - [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/) - [Niloofar Mireshghallah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niloofar-mireshghallah/) - [Sewon Min](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sewon-min/) - [Thomas Hartvigsen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-hartvigsen/) - [Tim Althoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-althoff/) - [Weijia Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weijia-shi/) - [Yejin Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yejin-choi/) - [Yulia Tsvetkov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yulia-tsvetkov/) - [Zachary Gottesman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-gottesman/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 - Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning - Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 190 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-evans/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026