--- title: "Masoud Hashemi · ServiceNow — author profile and papers" description: "Masoud Hashemi, ServiceNow: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masoud-hashemi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masoud-hashemi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Masoud Hashemi # Masoud Hashemi Masoud Hashemi has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sathwik-tejaswi-madhusudhan/), [Vikas Yadav](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vikas-yadav/), [Khyati Mahajan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khyati-mahajan/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5125715494) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5125715494) · [5 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5125715494) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5125715494&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masoud-hashemi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 25 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masoud-hashemi/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8951](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/90/#star-8951) 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=Masoud+Hashemi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Masoud+Hashemi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Masoud+Hashemi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Masoud+Hashemi) ## Affiliations [🏢**ServiceNow** Santa Clara · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/servicenow/) 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 5 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [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** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masoud-hashemi/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masoud-hashemi/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/madhusudhan-2025-do-llms-know-when-not/)** *(2025 · 22 citations)* The paper examines whether large language models can recognise when they should decline to answer, which the authors call Abstention Ability (AA). 2. **[Augmenting LLM Reasoning with Dynamic Notes Writing for Complex MultiHop QA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maheshwary-2026-augmenting-llm-reasoning-dynamic-notes/)** *(2026)* Iterative retrieval-augmented generation helps with multi-hop questions, but each retrieval round adds more documents to the prompt. ## 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. **[Do LLMs Know When to NOT Answer? Investigating Abstention Abilities of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/madhusudhan-2025-do-llms-know-when-not/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Nishanth Madhusudhan, Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan, Vikas Yadav, et al.*2025 · 22 citations* 2. **[BigCharts-R1: Enhanced Chart Reasoning with Visual Reinforcement Finetuning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09804) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Ahmed Masry et al.*2025 · 3 citations* 3. **[Augmenting LLM Reasoning with Dynamic Notes Writing for Complex MultiHop QA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/maheshwary-2026-augmenting-llm-reasoning-dynamic-notes/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Rishabh Maheshwary, Masoud Hashemi, Khyati Mahajan, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sathwik-tejaswi-madhusudhan/) ×2 - [Vikas Yadav](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vikas-yadav/) ×2 - [Khyati Mahajan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khyati-mahajan/) - [Rishabh Maheshwary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishabh-maheshwary/) - [Shiva Krishna Reddy Malay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiva-krishna-reddy-malay/) - [Spandana Gella](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/spandana-gella/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 25 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/masoud-hashemi/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026