--- title: "Dinesh Manocha — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Dinesh Manocha, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 92 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dinesh-manocha/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dinesh-manocha/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Dinesh Manocha # Dinesh Manocha Dinesh Manocha has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Franck Dernoncourt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franck-dernoncourt/), [Furong Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/furong-huang/), [Fuxiao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fuxiao-liu/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5004194238) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7047-9801) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5278094) · [**h-index 92**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5004194238) · [1,221 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004194238) · [42,199 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004194238&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dinesh-manocha/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 317 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dinesh-manocha/cited-by/) · [8 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4203](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/43/#star-4203) 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=Dinesh+Manocha) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Dinesh+Manocha) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Dinesh+Manocha) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Dinesh+Manocha) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill** Chapel Hill · United States 1992–2026 · 522 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2017–2026 · 471 papersEmployment since 2018*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**North Carolina State University** Raleigh · United States 1994–2012 · 26 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/north-carolina-state-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 1988–2003 · 16 papersEducation 1988–1992 · PhD, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🏢**Adobe Systems** San Jose · United States 2021–2026 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/adobe-systems/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2015–2018 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**Ewha Womans University** Seoul · South Korea 2006–2010 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/053fp5c05) · [🏢**Nvidia** Santa Clara · United States 2023–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/nvidia/) · [🤝**Association for Computing Machinery** New York · United States 2020 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03wsadn68) · [🎓**Florida State University** Tallahassee · United States 2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/florida-state-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 18 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dinesh-manocha/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dinesh-manocha/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dinesh-manocha/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[HallusionBench: An Advanced Diagnostic Suite for Entangled Language Hallucination and Visual Illusion in Large Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guan-2023-hallusionbench-advanced-diagnostic-suite-entangled/)** *(2023 · 335 citations)* Large vision-language models (LVLMs) often let language priors override what an image actually shows, and their vision side can misread pictures with high confidence. 2. **[GAMA: A Large Audio-Language Model with Advanced Audio Understanding and Complex Reasoning Abilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2024-gama-large-audio-language-model/)** *(2024 · 87 citations)* Large audio-language models (LALMs) such as LTU, SALMONN and Pengi handle captioning and simple factual audio questions well. 3. **[Structured Uncertainty guided Clarification for LLM Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suri-2026-structured-uncertainty-guided-clarification-llm/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Tool-calling LLM agents often fail when a user's request is vague or missing details. They either guess arguments or ask needless questions, because prompting-based clarification has no clear rule for what to ask or when to stop. The authors reframe clarification around the tool schema itself. The agent keeps… ## All works 11 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. **[TrafficPredict: Trajectory Prediction for Heterogeneous Traffic-Agents ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v33i01.33016120) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Yuexin Ma et al.*2019 · 451 citations* 2. **[HallusionBench: An Advanced Diagnostic Suite for Entangled Language Hallucination and Visual Illusion in Large Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guan-2023-hallusionbench-advanced-diagnostic-suite-entangled/) [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/)**Tianrui Guan, Fuxiao Liu, Xiyang Wu, et al.*2023 · 335 citations* 3. **[VV-Net: Voxel VAE Net With Group Convolutions for Point Cloud Segmentation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv.2019.00859) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Hsien-Yu Meng et al.*2019 · 309 citations* 4. **[TraPHic: Trajectory Prediction in Dense and Heterogeneous Traffic Using Weighted Interactions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.00868) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Rohan Chandra et al.*2019 · 238 citations* 5. **[GAMA: A Large Audio-Language Model with Advanced Audio Understanding and Complex Reasoning Abilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2024-gama-large-audio-language-model/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Ashish Seth, et al.*2024 · 87 citations* 6. **[MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.19168) arXiv:2410.19168 · no summary yet**S Sakshi et al.*2024 · 67 citations* 7. **[DALE: Generative Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Legal NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.528/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Sreyan Ghosh et al.*2023 · 34 citations* 8. **[Efficient Generation of Motion Plans from Attribute-Based Natural Language Instructions Using Dynamic Constraint Mapping ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/icra.2019.8794394) Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings · no summary yet**Jae Sung Park et al.*2017 · 12 citations* 9. **[Structured Uncertainty guided Clarification for LLM Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/suri-2026-structured-uncertainty-guided-clarification-llm/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Manan Suri, Puneet Mathur, Nedim Lipka, et al.*2026 · 4 citations* 10. **[ChartEval: LLM-Driven Chart Generation Evaluation Using Scene Graph Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.ijcnlp-demo.10/) Proceedings of The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and The 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations · no summary yet**Kanika Goswami et al.*2025* 11. **[Spoken language interaction with robots: Recommendations for future research ↗](https://doi.org/10.17615/v2v2-ha84) Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) · no summary yet**Raymond J. Mooney et al.*2025* ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Franck Dernoncourt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/franck-dernoncourt/) - [Furong Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/furong-huang/) - [Fuxiao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fuxiao-liu/) - [Lichang Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lichang-chen/) - [Manan Suri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manan-suri/) - [Nedim Lipka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nedim-lipka/) - [Puneet Mathur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/puneet-mathur/) - [Ramani Duraiswami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramani-duraiswami/) - [Ryan A. Rossi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-a-rossi/) - [Sreyan Ghosh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sreyan-ghosh/) - [Tianyi Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyi-zhou/) - [Xiaoyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoyu-liu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/): [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/2023/) - Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation/Proceedings - Proceedings of The 14th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and The 4th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 317 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [83 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dinesh-manocha/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026