--- title: "Kensen Shi — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kensen Shi, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kensen-shi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kensen-shi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kensen Shi # Kensen Shi Kensen Shi 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/), [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Charles Sutton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-sutton/), [Aakanksha Chowdhery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aakanksha-chowdhery/), [Abhishek Rao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhishek-rao/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5057834767) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7140-7869) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130889089) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5057834767) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5057834767) · [2,382 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5057834767&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kensen-shi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,769 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kensen-shi/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #732](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/8/#star-732) 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=Kensen+Shi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kensen+Shi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kensen+Shi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kensen+Shi) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2019–2025 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2014–2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**Texas A&M University** College Station · United States 2013–2014 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/texas-a-m-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) 💡 Concepts 3 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Few-shot learning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/few-shot-learning/) · [Language model · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/language-model/) · [Large language models · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/large-language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kensen-shi/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kensen-shi/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chowdhery-2022-palm-scaling-language-modeling-pathways/)** *(2022 · 4,753 citations)* This paper asks whether making a dense Transformer language model much larger still improves few-shot learning, where a model solves a task from a short prompt and a few examples instead of being finetuned. 2. **[Natural Language to Code Generation in Interactive Data Science Notebooks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yin-2023-natural-language-code-generation-interactive/)** *(2023 · 63 citations)* Data scientists often work in Jupyter-style notebooks, where each new request to an AI coding assistant depends on earlier cells, their execution state, and previous requests. ## 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. [**PaLM: Scaling Language Modeling with Pathways arXiv:2204.02311**Aakanksha Chowdhery, Sharan Narang, Jacob Devlin, et al.*2022 · 4,753 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chowdhery-2022-palm-scaling-language-modeling-pathways/) 2. **[Natural Language to Code Generation in Interactive Data Science Notebooks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yin-2023-natural-language-code-generation-interactive/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Pengcheng Yin, Wen-Ding Li, Kefan Xiao, et al.*2023 · 63 citations* 3. **[NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.14662) arXiv:2404.14662 · no summary yet**Ansong Ni et al.*2024 · 30 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 18 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Charles Sutton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-sutton/) ×2 - [Aakanksha Chowdhery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aakanksha-chowdhery/) - [Abhishek Rao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhishek-rao/) - [Adam Roberts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-roberts/) - [Gaurav Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-mishra/) - [Henryk Michalewski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henryk-michalewski/) - [Hyung Won Chung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hyung-won-chung/) - [Jacob Devlin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-devlin/) - [Joshua Howland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-howland/) - [Kefan Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kefan-xiao/) - [Maarten Bosma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-bosma/) - [Oleksandr Polozov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oleksandr-polozov/) ## 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/): [ACL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,769 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [731 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kensen-shi/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026