--- title: "Izhak Shafran — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Izhak Shafran: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 29 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/izhak-shafran/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/izhak-shafran/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Izhak Shafran # Izhak Shafran Izhak Shafran has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Yuan Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuan-cao/), [Chung-Cheng Chiu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chung-cheng-chiu/), [Dian Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dian-yu/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5025419994) · [**h-index 29**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5025419994) · [132 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5025419994) · [5,179 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5025419994&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/izhak-shafran/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 5,928 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/izhak-shafran/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1191](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/12/#star-1191) 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=Izhak+Shafran) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Izhak+Shafran) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Izhak+Shafran) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Izhak+Shafran) ## Affiliations [🎓**Oregon Health & Science University** Portland · United States 2007–2017 · 34 papers](https://ror.org/009avj582) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2014–2025 · 29 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2004–2006 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2023–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2002–2003 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🏢**AT&T** Bedminster · United States 2003–2004 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/at-t/) 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 9 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/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/safety-risk-reliability-and-quality/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [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/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 3 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/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Language model · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/language-model/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/izhak-shafran/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/izhak-shafran/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2022-react-synergizing-reasoning-acting-language/)** *(2022 · 2,591 citations)* Large language models have mostly been studied either as reasoners, which produce chain-of-thought explanations, or as actors, which produce plans and commands for an environment. 2. **[SLM: Bridge the thin gap between speech and text foundation models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2023-slm-bridge-thin-gap-between/)** *(2023 · 54 citations)* Building speech-language systems usually demands large amounts of paired audio-text data or costly end-to-end training. ## 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. **[Tree of Thoughts: Deliberate Problem Solving with Large Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.10601) arXiv:2305.10601 · no summary yet**Shunyu Yao et al.*2023 · 2,671 citations* 2. [**ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models arXiv:2210.03629**Shunyu Yao, Jeffrey Zhao, Dian Yu, et al.*2022 · 2,591 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2022-react-synergizing-reasoning-acting-language/) 3. **[Accent detection and speech recognition for Shanghai-accented Mandarin ↗](https://doi.org/10.21437/interspeech.2005-112) Interspeech (USB) · no summary yet**Yanli Zheng et al.*2005 · 93 citations* 4. **[Extracting Symptoms and their Status from Clinical Conversations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P19-1087/) Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Nan Du et al.*2019 · 81 citations* 5. **[SLM: Bridge the thin gap between speech and text foundation models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2023-slm-bridge-thin-gap-between/) [IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-automatic-speech-recognition-and-understanding-workshop-asru/)**Mingqiu Wang, Wei Han, Izhak Shafran, et al.*2023 · 54 citations* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yuan Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuan-cao/) ×2 - [Chung-Cheng Chiu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chung-cheng-chiu/) - [Dian Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dian-yu/) - [Karthik Narasimhan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karthik-narasimhan/) - [Nan Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-du/) - [Paul Kishan Rubenstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-kishan-rubenstein/) - [Shunyu Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shunyu-yao/) - [Wei Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-han/) - [Yu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-automatic-speech-recognition-and-understanding-workshop-asru/): [ASRU 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-automatic-speech-recognition-and-understanding-workshop-asru/2023/) - Interspeech (USB) - Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 5,928 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1,082 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/izhak-shafran/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026