--- title: "Kiran Ramnath — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kiran Ramnath, Amazon: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiran-ramnath/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiran-ramnath/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kiran Ramnath # Kiran Ramnath Kiran Ramnath has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026; often with [Kang Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kang-zhou/), [Sangmin Woo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sangmin-woo/), [Yun Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yun-zhou/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023410809) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3911-2283) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023410809) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023410809) · [31 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023410809&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiran-ramnath/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 21 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiran-ramnath/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9245](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/93/#star-9245) 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=Kiran+Ramnath) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kiran+Ramnath) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kiran+Ramnath) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kiran+Ramnath) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2020–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) 🏛️**University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2019–2021Education 2019–2021 · MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems and Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiran-ramnath/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiran-ramnath/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Systematic Survey of Automatic Prompt Optimization Techniques](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ramnath-2025-systematic-survey-automatic-prompt-optimization/)** *(2025 · 40 citations)* Large language models react unpredictably to small changes in prompt wording, ordering or formatting. Manual prompt engineering is therefore laborious and quickly becomes outdated as models change. This survey by an Amazon Web Services team reviews black-box Automatic Prompt Optimization (APO): methods that improve… 2. **[Learning to Ideate for Machine Learning Engineering Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-learning-ideate-machine-learning-engineering/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Agents for machine learning engineering (MLE) often stop once they have one working solution and do not keep refining it. 3. **[BayesFlow: A Probability Inference Framework for Meta-Agent Assisted Workflow Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yuan-2026-bayesflow-probability-inference-framework-meta/)** *(2026)* This paper addresses automatic agentic workflow generation: composing LLM calls, tool use and post-processing into executable pipelines without manual design. ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kang Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kang-zhou/) ×2 - [Sangmin Woo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sangmin-woo/) ×2 - [Yun Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yun-zhou/) ×2 - [Zhichao Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhichao-xu/) ×2 - [Aosong Feng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aosong-feng/) - [Bo Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-yuan/) - [Han Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-ding/) - [Lin Lee Cheong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-lee-cheong/) - [Shuai Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuai-wang/) - [Soumya Smruti Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soumya-smruti-mishra/) - [Xuan Qi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-qi/) - [Yawei Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yawei-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 21 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kiran-ramnath/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026