--- title: "Emre Can Acikgoz — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Emre Can Acikgoz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emre-can-acikgoz/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emre-can-acikgoz/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Emre Can Acikgoz # Emre Can Acikgoz Emre Can Acikgoz has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Dilek Hakkani-Tür](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/), [Gokhan Tur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokhan-tur/), [Bingxiang He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingxiang-he/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5038735910) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4547-0980) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5038735910) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5038735910) · [35 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5038735910&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emre-can-acikgoz/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 104 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emre-can-acikgoz/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9538](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/96/#star-9538) 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=Emre+Can+Acikgoz) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Emre+Can+Acikgoz) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Emre+Can+Acikgoz) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Emre+Can+Acikgoz) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2024–2026 · 19 papersEmployment · Graduate Student, Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Koç University** Istanbul · Türkiye 2022–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/koc-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 4 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/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](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/emre-can-acikgoz/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emre-can-acikgoz/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Can a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use? CoALM: A Unified Conversational Agentic Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/acikgoz-2025-can-single-model-master-both/)** *(2025 · 13 citations)* Task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems handle multi-turn conversations and track user goals well, but they are usually tied to a small fixed set of APIs. 2. **[Current Agents Fail to Leverage World Model as Tool for Foresight](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qian-2026-current-agents-fail-leverage-world/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper asks whether today's vision-language agents can treat a generative world model as an optional external tool: a simulator they consult to preview the consequences of an action before committing to it in the real environment. ## All works 3 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. **[ToolRL: Reward is All Tool Learning Needs ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.13958) arXiv:2504.13958 · no summary yet**Cheng Qian et al.*2025 · 94 citations* 2. **[Can a Single Model Master Both Multi-turn Conversations and Tool Use? CoALM: A Unified Conversational Agentic Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/acikgoz-2025-can-single-model-master-both/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Emre Can Acikgoz, Jeremiah Greer, Akul Datta, et al.*2025 · 13 citations* 3. **[Current Agents Fail to Leverage World Model as Tool for Foresight](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qian-2026-current-agents-fail-leverage-world/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Cheng Qian, Emre Can Acikgoz, Bingxuan Li, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dilek Hakkani-Tür](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/) ×2 - [Gokhan Tur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokhan-tur/) ×2 - [Bingxiang He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingxiang-he/) - [Bingxuan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingxuan-li/) - [Cheng Qian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-qian/) - [Heng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/) - [Qinyu Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinyu-luo/) - [Xiusi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiusi-chen/) - [Yunzhu Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunzhu-li/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 104 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [37 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emre-can-acikgoz/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026