--- title: "Divij Handa — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Divij Handa, Arizona State University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/divij-handa/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/divij-handa/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Divij Handa # Divij Handa Divij Handa 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/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Amir Saeidi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-saeidi/), [Chitta Baral](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chitta-baral/), [Md Nayem Uddin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-nayem-uddin/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5092005461) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5092005461) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092005461) · [18 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092005461&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/divij-handa/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 25 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/divij-handa/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8517](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8517) 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=Divij+Handa) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Divij+Handa) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Divij+Handa) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Divij+Handa) ## Affiliations [🎓**Arizona State University** Tempe · United States 2023–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/arizona-state-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](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/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/divij-handa/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/divij-handa/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[When "Competency" in Reasoning Opens the Door to Vulnerability: Jailbreaking LLMs via Novel Complex Ciphers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/handa-2024-competency-reasoning-opens-door-vulnerability/)** *(2024 · 15 citations)* Safety training for LLMs usually covers harmful requests in natural language or in well-known encodings such as Base64. This work argues that this leaves a gap: stronger reasoning lets models decode ciphers invented on the spot, and defenders cannot anticipate such ciphers in alignment data. 2. **[UnSeenTimeQA: Time-Sensitive Question-Answering Beyond LLMs' Memorization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/uddin-2025-unseentimeqa-time-sensitive-question-answering/)** *(2025 · 14 citations)* Benchmarks for time-sensitive question answering (TSQA), such as TimeQA, TempReason and MenatQA, are built from real-world Wikidata/Wikipedia facts. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Amir Saeidi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-saeidi/) ×2 - [Chitta Baral](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chitta-baral/) ×2 - [Md Nayem Uddin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/md-nayem-uddin/) ×2 - [Eduardo Blanco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduardo-blanco/) - [Shrinidhi Kumbhar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shrinidhi-kumbhar/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 25 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/divij-handa/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026