--- title: "Kannan Ramchandran — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Kannan Ramchandran, University of California, Berkeley: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 83 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kannan-ramchandran/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kannan-ramchandran/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kannan Ramchandran # Kannan Ramchandran Kannan Ramchandran has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025; often with [Dan Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/), [Joseph E. Gonzalez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joseph-e-gonzalez/), [Kangwook Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangwook-lee/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5030620564) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4567-328X) · [**h-index 83**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5030620564) · [715 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030620564) · [30,746 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030620564&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kannan-ramchandran/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 88 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kannan-ramchandran/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8356](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/84/#star-8356) 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=Kannan+Ramchandran) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kannan+Ramchandran) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kannan+Ramchandran) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kannan+Ramchandran) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 1999–2026 · 430 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 1993–2007 · 95 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 1992–2003 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois System** Urbana · United States 1994–2002 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-system/) · [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) · [🎓**Rice University** Houston · United States 2018–2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rice-university/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 1998–2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 1999–2002 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) · [🎓**University of California System** Oakland · United States 2020 · 1 paperEmployment · professor, eecs](https://ror.org/00pjdza24) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 8 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 5 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/) · [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/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kannan-ramchandran/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kannan-ramchandran/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cemri-2025-why-multi-agent-llm/)** *(2025 · 89 citations)* Multi-agent LLM systems (MAS) are popular, yet they often perform little better than single agents or simple baselines. 2. **[Looped Transformers for Length Generalization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fan-2024-looped-transformers-length-generalization/)** *(2024 · 13 citations)* Transformers trained from scratch on arithmetic or algorithmic tasks usually fail on inputs longer than those seen during training, partly because their depth is fixed. ## 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. **[EC-cache: load-balanced, low-latency cluster caching with online erasure coding ↗](https://doi.org/10.5555/3026877.3026909) Operating Systems Design and Implementation · no summary yet**K. V. Rashmi et al.*2016 · 98 citations* 2. [**Why Do Multi-Agent LLM Systems Fail? arXiv:2503.13657**Mert Cemri, Melissa Z. Pan, Shuyi Yang, et al.*2025 · 89 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cemri-2025-why-multi-agent-llm/) 3. [**Looped Transformers for Length Generalization arXiv:2409.15647**Ying Fan, Yilun Du, Kannan Ramchandran, et al.*2024 · 13 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fan-2024-looped-transformers-length-generalization/) 4. **[Robust Class Parallelism - Error Resilient Parallel Inference with Low Communication Cost ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/ieeeconf51394.2020.9443452) 2018 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers · no summary yet**Yaoqing Lamar Yang et al.*2018 · 3 citations* 5. **[SkyDiscover: A Flexible, Adaptive Framework for AI-Driven Scientific and Algorithmic Discovery ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3786335.3813221) no summary yet**Shu Liu et al.*2026 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dan Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/) - [Joseph E. Gonzalez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joseph-e-gonzalez/) - [Kangwook Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangwook-lee/) - [Kurt Keutzer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kurt-keutzer/) - [Matei Zaharia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matei-zaharia/) - [Rishabh Tiwari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishabh-tiwari/) - [Yilun Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-du/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - 2018 52nd Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers - Operating Systems Design and Implementation ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 88 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [27 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kannan-ramchandran/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026