--- title: "Pranjal Aggarwal — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Pranjal Aggarwal, Carnegie Mellon University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranjal-aggarwal/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranjal-aggarwal/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Pranjal Aggarwal # Pranjal Aggarwal Pranjal Aggarwal has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Sean Welleck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-welleck/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5045442167) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2962-1535) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131161422) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5045442167) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5045442167) · [207 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5045442167&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranjal-aggarwal/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 137 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranjal-aggarwal/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7697](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/77/#star-7697) 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=Pranjal+Aggarwal) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Pranjal+Aggarwal) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Pranjal+Aggarwal) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Pranjal+Aggarwal) ## Affiliations [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2025–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Delhi** New Delhi · India 2019–2024 · 4 papersEducation 2019–2024 · Bachelor and Masters, Computer Science and Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-delhi/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Information Technology Dharwad** Dharwad · India 2021–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-information-technology-dharwad/) · [🎓**University of Colorado Boulder** Boulder · United States 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-colorado-boulder/) · [🎓**Jaypee Institute of Information Technology** Noida · India 2014–2015 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05sttyy11) 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranjal-aggarwal/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranjal-aggarwal/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[L1: Controlling How Long A Reasoning Model Thinks With Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aggarwal-2025-l1-controlling-long-reasoning-model/)** *(2025 · 125 citations)* Reasoning language models become more accurate when they generate longer chains of thought. However, users cannot set how many tokens a model spends, so they cannot plan compute budgets in advance. The authors present Length Controlled Policy Optimization (LCPO), a reinforcement learning recipe built on GRPO. Each… 2. **[AlphaVerus: Bootstrapping Formally Verified Code Generation through Self-Improving Translation and Treefinement](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aggarwal-2024-alphaverus-bootstrapping-formally-verified-code/)** *(2024 · 11 citations)* Code produced by large language models comes with no correctness guarantee, and the usual checks (unit tests, human review) are weak stand-ins. ## All works 6 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. [**L1: Controlling How Long A Reasoning Model Thinks With Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2503.04697**Pranjal Aggarwal, Sean Welleck*2025 · 125 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aggarwal-2025-l1-controlling-long-reasoning-model/) 2. [**AlphaVerus: Bootstrapping Formally Verified Code Generation through Self-Improving Translation and Treefinement arXiv:2412.06176**Pranjal Aggarwal, Bryan Parno, Sean Welleck*2024 · 11 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aggarwal-2024-alphaverus-bootstrapping-formally-verified-code/) 3. **[Gym-Anything: Turn any Software into an Agent Environment ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06126) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Pranjal Aggarwal, Graham Neubig, Sean Welleck*2026 · 5 citations* 4. **[On the limits and opportunities of AI reviewers: Reviewing the reviews of Nature-family papers with 45 expert scientists ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.20668) arXiv:2605.20668 · no summary yet**Seungone Kim et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 5. **[Reasoning over mathematical objects: on-policy reward modeling and test time aggregation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18886) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Pranjal Aggarwal et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 6. **[cua-speedrun: Standardized Benchmarking of the Speed of Computer-Use Agents ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.40284) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Pranjal Aggarwal et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Sean Welleck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-welleck/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 137 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [62 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pranjal-aggarwal/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026