--- title: "Ishika Agarwal — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Ishika Agarwal, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ishika-agarwal/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ishika-agarwal/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ishika Agarwal # Ishika Agarwal Ishika Agarwal has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Dilek Hakkani Tur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/), [Jiawei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-han/), [Nimet Beyza Bozdag](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nimet-beyza-bozdag/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5099230662) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7249-3847) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5099230662) · [11 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5099230662) · [13 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5099230662&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ishika-agarwal/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 9 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ishika-agarwal/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11337](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/114/#star-11337) 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=Ishika+Agarwal) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ishika+Agarwal) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ishika+Agarwal) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ishika+Agarwal) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2023–2028 · 11 papersEducation 2024–2028 · PhD, Computing and Data Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](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/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ishika-agarwal/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ishika-agarwal/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Instruct, Not Assist: LLM-based Multi-Turn Planning and Hierarchical Questioning for Socratic Code Debugging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kargupta-2024-instruct-not-assist-llm-based/)** *(2024 · 16 citations)* LLM tutors tend to act like helpful assistants and simply hand students the fix. This undermines learning. The authors target programming education and propose TreeInstruct, an Instructor agent that teaches debugging through Socratic questioning without revealing the answer. 2. **[Language Specific Knowledge: Do Models Know Better in X than in English?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2025-language-specific-knowledge-models-know/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* Multilingual LLMs are usually assumed to encode meaning in a shared space regardless of input language. The authors show this assumption fails in practice. A model may answer the same question correctly in one language and wrongly in another. They call this Language Specific Knowledge (LSK) and define the Language… ## 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. **[Instruct, Not Assist: LLM-based Multi-Turn Planning and Hierarchical Questioning for Socratic Code Debugging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kargupta-2024-instruct-not-assist-llm-based/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Priyanka Kargupta, Ishika Agarwal, Dilek Hakkani Tur, et al.*2024 · 16 citations* 2. [**Language Specific Knowledge: Do Models Know Better in X than in English? arXiv:2505.14990**Ishika Agarwal, Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Dilek Hakkani-Tur*2025 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2025-language-specific-knowledge-models-know/) 3. **[A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: MTQE Rewards for Idioms Improve General Translation Quality ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.06307) arXiv:2601.06307 · no summary yet**Ishika Agarwal et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dilek Hakkani Tur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/) ×2 - [Jiawei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-han/) - [Nimet Beyza Bozdag](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nimet-beyza-bozdag/) - [Priyanka Kargupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/priyanka-kargupta/) ## 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 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 9 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ishika-agarwal/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026