--- title: "Monica Sunkara · Amazon — author profile and papers" description: "Monica Sunkara, Amazon: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monica-sunkara/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monica-sunkara/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Monica Sunkara # Monica Sunkara Monica Sunkara 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/); often with [Yassine Benajiba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yassine-benajiba/), [Anna Currey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-currey/), [Jason Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-cai/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5014130267) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5014130267) · [32 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014130267) · [172 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014130267&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monica-sunkara/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 42 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monica-sunkara/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10096](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/101/#star-10096) 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=Monica+Sunkara) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Monica+Sunkara) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Monica+Sunkara) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Monica+Sunkara) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2020–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) 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 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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monica-sunkara/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monica-sunkara/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MemInsight: Autonomous Memory Augmentation for LLM Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/salama-2025-meminsight-autonomous-memory-augmentation-llm/)** *(2025 · 22 citations)* LLM agents rely on long-term memory to give coherent, personalized answers. As stored interactions pile up, raw and unstructured memory becomes noisy and harder to search. MemInsight addresses this by having an LLM backbone enrich each memory entry automatically with attribute–value annotations, without a… 2. **[MEAV: Model Editing with Alignment Vectors for inference time LLM alignment in single and multidomain preference spectrum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shahriar-2026-meav-model-editing-alignment-vectors/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper addresses the cost of adjusting LLM alignment after training. Methods like RLHF or DPO need retraining for every new preference setting, and many inference-time alternatives rely on a reward model at each step. The authors propose MEAV, which treats alignment as model editing in the spirit of Task… ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yassine Benajiba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yassine-benajiba/) ×2 - [Anna Currey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-currey/) - [Jason Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-cai/) - [Manuel Mager](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manuel-mager/) - [Michelle Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michelle-yuan/) - [Nikolaos Pappas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolaos-pappas/) - [Rana Salama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rana-salama/) - [Srikanth Doss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srikanth-doss/) - [Yi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-zhang/) - [Zheng Qi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheng-qi/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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 42 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monica-sunkara/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026