--- title: "Emilio Ferrara — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Emilio Ferrara, University of Southern California: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 72 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emilio-ferrara/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emilio-ferrara/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Emilio Ferrara # Emilio Ferrara Emilio Ferrara has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Alon Y. Halevy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-y-halevy/), [Binghui Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/binghui-wang/), [David Corney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-corney/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5078699564) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1942-2831) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40463077) · [**h-index 72**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5078699564) · [1,783 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078699564) · [23,546 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078699564&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emilio-ferrara/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 80 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emilio-ferrara/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6024) 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=Emilio+Ferrara) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Emilio+Ferrara) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Emilio+Ferrara) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Emilio+Ferrara) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2012–2026 · 1,667 papersEmployment · Professor*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**Thomas University** Thomasville · United States 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/01p18bt48) · [🎓**University of California, Santa Barbara** Santa Barbara · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/) · [🎓**Indiana University** Bloomington · United States 2012–2018 · 46 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indiana-university/) · [🎓**Indiana University Bloomington** Bloomington · United States 2012–2018 · 43 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indiana-university-bloomington/) · [🎓**University of Messina** Messina · Italy 2010–2013 · 22 papersEducation](https://ror.org/05ctdxz19) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emilio-ferrara/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emilio-ferrara/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/augenstein-2023-factuality-challenges-era-large-language/)** *(2023 · 243 citations)* This perspective article, written by researchers and fact-checking practitioners, looks at how chatbots built on LLMs such as ChatGPT, Bing Chat and Bard affect the reliability of public information. It presents no new dataset or model. Instead, it surveys existing evidence and frames the problem in two parts: 2. **[SilentDrift: Exploiting Action Chunking for Stealthy Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-silentdrift-exploiting-action-chunking-stealthy/)** *(2026)* The paper exposes a security weakness in modern Vision-Language-Action (VLA) robot policies. When a model predicts a chunk of K future actions as relative (delta pose) movements, the robot carries out the whole chunk without visual correction. This intra-chunk open loop lets small per-step errors add up into a large… ## 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. **[Factuality Challenges in the Era of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/augenstein-2023-factuality-challenges-era-large-language/) [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature-machine-intelligence/)**Isabelle Augenstein, Timothy Baldwin, Meeyoung Cha, et al.*2023 · 243 citations* 2. **[FairFed: Enabling Group Fairness in Federated Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v37i6.25911) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Yahya H. Ezzeldin et al.*2021 · 200 citations* 3. **[SAGE: A Hybrid Geopolitical Event Forecasting System ↗](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/955) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Fred Morstatter et al.*2019 · 24 citations* 4. **[Hybrid forecasting of geopolitical events† ↗](https://doi.org/10.1002/aaai.12085) AI Magazine · no summary yet**Daniel M. Benjamin et al.*2023 · 18 citations* 5. **[SilentDrift: Exploiting Action Chunking for Stealthy Backdoor Attacks on Vision-Language-Action Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-silentdrift-exploiting-action-chunking-stealthy/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Bingxin Xu, Yuzhang Shang, Binghui Wang, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alon Y. Halevy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-y-halevy/) - [Binghui Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/binghui-wang/) - [David Corney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-corney/) - [Eduard Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduard-hovy/) - [Heng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/) - [Isabelle Augenstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/isabelle-augenstein/) - [Meeyoung Cha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meeyoung-cha/) - [Scott A. Hale](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-a-hale/) - [Tanmoy Chakraborty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tanmoy-chakraborty/) - [Timothy Baldwin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-baldwin/) - [Yuzhang Shang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuzhang-shang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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/) - [Nature Machine Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature-machine-intelligence/): [Nature Machine Intelligence 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature-machine-intelligence/2023/) - AI Magazine - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 80 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emilio-ferrara/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026