--- title: "Mukul Ranjan — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Mukul Ranjan, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukul-ranjan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukul-ranjan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mukul Ranjan # Mukul Ranjan Mukul Ranjan 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/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Zhiqiang Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqiang-shen/), [Ahmed Heakl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-heakl/), [Fahad Shahbaz Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahad-shahbaz-khan/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5072720344) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6808-5990) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5072720344) · [20 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5072720344) · [71 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5072720344&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukul-ranjan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 13 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukul-ranjan/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/91/#star-9024) 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=Mukul+Ranjan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mukul+Ranjan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mukul+Ranjan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mukul+Ranjan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2025–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati** Guwahati · India 2017–2023 · 2 papersEducation 2017–2021 · B.Tech, Electronics and Communication Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-guwahati/) 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).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukul-ranjan/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukul-ranjan/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[KITAB-Bench: A Comprehensive Multi-Domain Benchmark for Arabic OCR and Document Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/heakl-2025-kitab-bench-comprehensive-multi-domain/)** *(2025 · 21 citations)* Arabic OCR trails English OCR. The script is cursive and written right to left, and its typography is rich. Existing Arabic datasets mostly cover isolated handwriting or printed lines, not full document understanding. KITAB-Bench fills this gap with 8,809 evaluation samples spread over 9 major tasks and 36… 2. **[On the Cultural Anachronism and Temporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ranjan-2026-cultural-anachronism-temporal-reasoning-vision/)** *(2026)* Vision-language models are increasingly used in museums, digital archives and educational tools. The authors point to a failure they call cultural anachronism: a model explains a historical object through concepts, materials, techniques or cultural frames from the wrong era. To measure it, they built TAB-VLM, a… ## All works 4 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. **[An evaluation of Google Translate for Sanskrit to English translation via sentiment and semantic analysis ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.07201) arXiv:2303.07201 · no summary yet**Akshat Shukla et al.*2023 · 24 citations* 2. **[KITAB-Bench: A Comprehensive Multi-Domain Benchmark for Arabic OCR and Document Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/heakl-2025-kitab-bench-comprehensive-multi-domain/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Ahmed Heakl, Muhammad Abdullah Sohail, Mukul Ranjan, et al.*2025 · 21 citations* 3. **[On the Cultural Anachronism and Temporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ranjan-2026-cultural-anachronism-temporal-reasoning-vision/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Mukul Ranjan, Prince Jha, Khushboo Kumari, et al.*2026* 4. **[Mobile-MMLU: A Mobile Intelligence Language Understanding Benchmark ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20786) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Sondos Mahmoud Bsharat et al.*2025* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Zhiqiang Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqiang-shen/) ×2 - [Ahmed Heakl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-heakl/) - [Fahad Shahbaz Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahad-shahbaz-khan/) - [Rania Elbadry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rania-elbadry/) - [Salman Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salman-khan/) ## 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/), [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 13 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukul-ranjan/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026