--- title: "Kevin Heffernan — author profile and papers" description: "Kevin Heffernan, Columbia University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 44 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-heffernan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-heffernan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kevin Heffernan # Kevin Heffernan 2 papers on this site · 2022–2023 current affiliation [Columbia University](https://ror.org/00hj8s172), New York, United States Kevin Heffernan has 2 papers on this site, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [David Dale](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dale/), [Hady Elsahar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hady-elsahar/), [Holger Schwenk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/holger-schwenk/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5059012246) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3499-1477) · [**h-index 44**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5059012246) · [426 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059012246) · [8 526 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059012246&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-heffernan/#papers) · [1 875 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-heffernan/cited-by/) · 1 more work in our library 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=Kevin+Heffernan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kevin+Heffernan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kevin+Heffernan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kevin+Heffernan) ## Affiliations - [Columbia University](https://ror.org/00hj8s172) · New York, United States —current · 2024–2026 on 28 papers - [Syracuse University](https://ror.org/025r5qe02) · Syracuse, United States —2004–2025 on 195 papers - [University of Seoul](https://ror.org/05en5nh73) · Seoul, South Korea —2009–2025 on 9 papers - [Meta (United States)](https://ror.org/01zbnvs85) · Menlo Park, United States —2023–2025 on 4 papers - [SUNY Upstate Medical University](https://ror.org/040kfrw16) · Syracuse, United States —2021–2023 on 2 papers - [University of California, Berkeley](https://ror.org/01an7q238) · Berkeley, United States —2023 on 2 papers - [University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign](https://ror.org/047426m28) · Urbana, United States —2005–2017 on 84 papers - [Tufts Medical Center](https://ror.org/002hsbm82) · Boston, United States —2009–2014 on 45 papers - [Tufts University](https://ror.org/05wvpxv85) · Medford, United States —2010–2011 on 5 papers - [Samsung Medical Center](https://ror.org/05a15z872) · Seoul, South Korea —2006–2011 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 24 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Machine translation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Speech & spoken language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Low-resource languages 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Vision & language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SeamlessM4T: Massively Multilingual & Multimodal Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/communication-2023-seamlessm4t-massively-multilingual-multimodal-machine/)** *(2023 · 183 citations)* Text-based machine translation such as NLLB now covers more than 200 languages, but speech translation lags behind. 2. **[Bitext Mining Using Distilled Sentence Representations for Low-Resource Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/heffernan-2022-bitext-mining-distilled-sentence-representations/)** *(2022 · 127 citations)* Multilingual sentence encoders that try to cover every language in one model have trouble with the long tail of low-resource languages. ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [David Dale](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dale/) - [Hady Elsahar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hady-elsahar/) - [Holger Schwenk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/holger-schwenk/) - [Hongyu Gong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongyu-gong/) - [John Hoffman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-hoffman/) - [Loic Barrault](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/loic-barrault/) - [Ning Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-dong/) - [Paul-Ambroise Duquenne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-ambroise-duquenne/) - [Seamless Communication](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seamless-communication/) - [Yu-An Chung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-an-chung/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 875 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [164 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-heffernan/cited-by/).