--- title: "Maisha Maliha — author profile and papers · Question answering" description: "Maisha Maliha, University of Oklahoma: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maisha-maliha/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maisha-maliha/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Maisha Maliha # Maisha Maliha Maisha Maliha has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Dean F. Hougen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dean-f-hougen/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5062800510) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3260-3240) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5062800510) · [20 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062800510) · [171 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062800510&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maisha-maliha/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13033](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/131/#star-13033) 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=Maisha+Maliha) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Maisha+Maliha) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Maisha+Maliha) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Maisha+Maliha) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Oklahoma** Norman · United States 2023–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oklahoma/) · [🎓**East West University** Dhaka · Bangladesh 2019–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05p0tzt32) · [🎓**Western Michigan University** Kalamazoo · United States 2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04j198w64) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Bombay** Mumbai · India 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-bombay/) 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).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maisha-maliha/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Mechanistic Interpretability of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models via Cross-Attention Interventions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maliha-2026-mechanistic-interpretability-text-image-diffusion/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Cross-attention injects text into Stable Diffusion's UNet, but it is poorly understood which prompt tokens shape which image regions and which internal components carry that influence. 2. **[NSF-CoT: Neuro-Symbolic Formal Verification of Chain-of-Thought Faithfulness in Contextual Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pramanik-2026-nsf-cot-neuro-symbolic-formal/)** *(2026)* Chain-of-thought explanations can sound convincing while not reflecting what actually drove a model's answer. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dean F. Hougen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dean-f-hougen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) ×2: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ×2 Updated 1 November 2026