--- title: "Gregory W. Wornell — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Gregory W. Wornell, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 62 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-w-wornell/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-w-wornell/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gregory W. Wornell # Gregory W. Wornell Gregory W. Wornell 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/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Chuang Gan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuang-gan/), [David Cox](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-cox/), [Dawn Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawn-song/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5066172831) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9166-4758) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q102277299) · [**h-index 62**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5066172831) · [401 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066172831) · [34,451 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066172831&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-w-wornell/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 15 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-w-wornell/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11514](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/116/#star-11514) 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=Gregory+W.+Wornell) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gregory+W.+Wornell) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gregory+W.+Wornell) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gregory+W.+Wornell) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 1990–2026 · 330 papersEducation*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🔬**Tsinghua–Berkeley Shenzhen Institute** Shenzhen · China 2019–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/tsinghua-berkeley-shenzhen-institute/) · [🎓**Hebrew University of Jerusalem** Jerusalem · Israel 2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/) · [🎓**Tel Aviv University** Tel Aviv · Israel 2004–2013 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-w-wornell/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-w-wornell/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2025-satori-reinforcement-learning-chain-action/)** *(2025 · 13 citations)* Most ways of boosting LLM reasoning at inference time rely on heavy sampling steered by a separate verifier or reward model. 2. **[Position: LLM Watermarking Should Align Stakeholders' Incentives for Practical Adoption](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-position-llm-watermarking-should-align/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* This position paper asks why LLM watermarking is rarely deployed despite many proposed algorithms. The authors argue that the main obstacle is not technical performance. Instead, LLM providers, platforms, and end users want different things. They identify three barriers: competitive risk for providers who adopt… ## All works 4 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. **[Using Unknown Occluders to Recover Hidden Scenes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.01251) 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**Adam Yedidia et al.*2019 · 63 citations* 2. [**Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search arXiv:2502.02508**Maohao Shen, Guangtao Zeng, Zhenting Qi, et al.*2025 · 13 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2025-satori-reinforcement-learning-chain-action/) 3. **[Position: LLM Watermarking Should Align Stakeholders' Incentives for Practical Adoption](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-position-llm-watermarking-should-align/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Yepeng Liu, Xuandong Zhao, Dawn Song, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 4. **[PersonaMem-v3: Toward Omni-Platform Personal Intelligence for Holistic User Understanding, Recommendation, and Agentic Tasks ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.21381) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Bowen Jiang et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chuang Gan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuang-gan/) - [David Cox](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-cox/) - [Dawn Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dawn-song/) - [Guangtao Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangtao-zeng/) - [Wei Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-lu/) - [Xuandong Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuandong-zhao/) - [Zhang-Wei Hong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhang-wei-hong/) - [Zhenfang Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhenfang-chen/) - [Zhenting Qi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhenting-qi/) ## 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/) - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 15 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-w-wornell/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026