--- title: "Manish Nagireddy — author profile and papers · Implicature" description: "Manish Nagireddy, IBM: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manish-nagireddy/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manish-nagireddy/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Manish Nagireddy # Manish Nagireddy Manish Nagireddy has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Implicature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Erik Miehling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erik-miehling/), [Bruce W. Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bruce-w-lee/), [David Piorkowski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-piorkowski/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5064475546) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9245-2546) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130808508) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5064475546) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064475546) · [154 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064475546&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manish-nagireddy/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 48 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manish-nagireddy/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9263](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/93/#star-9263) 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=Manish+Nagireddy) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Manish+Nagireddy) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Manish+Nagireddy) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Manish+Nagireddy) ## Affiliations [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2023–2026 · 22 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Implicature · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/implicature/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manish-nagireddy/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Programming Refusal with Conditional Activation Steering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2024-programming-refusal-conditional-activation-steering/)** *(2024 · 42 citations)* Activation steering adds a vector to an LLM's hidden states during inference to change its behavior. Existing methods apply that vector to every input, so a refusal vector makes the model decline harmless requests as often as harmful ones. Lee et al. propose Conditional Activation Steering (CAST), which makes… 2. **[Language Models in Dialogue: Conversational Maxims for Human-AI Interactions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miehling-2024-language-models-dialogue-conversational-maxims/)** *(2024 · 23 citations)* The paper asks why modern chat-oriented language models misbehave in conversation: they answer when they should ask, rarely admit ignorance, pad responses, hallucinate, and drift toward sycophancy. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Erik Miehling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erik-miehling/) ×2 - [Bruce W. Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bruce-w-lee/) - [David Piorkowski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-piorkowski/) - [Elizabeth M. Daly](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-m-daly/) - [Inkit Padhi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/inkit-padhi/) - [Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karthikeyan-natesan-ramamurthy/) - [Pierre Dognin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierre-dognin/) - [Prasanna Sattigeri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasanna-sattigeri/) ## 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/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 48 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manish-nagireddy/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026