--- title: "Rahul Thapa · Stanford University — author profile and papers" description: "Rahul Thapa, Stanford University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahul-thapa/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahul-thapa/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Rahul Thapa # Rahul Thapa Rahul Thapa has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [James Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-zou/), [Eric Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-wu/), [Haotian Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haotian-ye/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5026274141) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1137-955X) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5026274141) · [43 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5026274141) · [1,079 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5026274141&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahul-thapa/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 36 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahul-thapa/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10424](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/105/#star-10424) 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=Rahul+Thapa) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Rahul+Thapa) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Rahul+Thapa) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Rahul+Thapa) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2023–2026 · 22 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**Dascena** Oakland · United States 2021–2022 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/002g7k102) · [🎓**Villanova University** Radnor · United States 2020–2022 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/02g7kd627) · [🏥**Stanford Medicine** Stanford · United States 2023–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/stanford-medicine/) · [🏥**Stanford Health Care** Stanford · United States 2023–2024 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/019wqcg20) 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 9 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/) · [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/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahul-thapa/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[OctoTools: A Multi-Agent Framework with Extensible Tools for Complex Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2026-octotools-multi-agent-framework-extensible/)** *(2026 · 5 citations)* LLMs still struggle with hard problems that combine image understanding, specialist knowledge, calculation and several reasoning steps. 2. **[Reasoning or Knowledge: Stratified Evaluation of Biomedical LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thapa-2026-reasoning-or-knowledge-stratified-evaluation/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Popular biomedical QA benchmarks such as MedQA, MedMCQA and PubMedQA mix two kinds of questions: some need multi-step clinical inference, and others only need a remembered fact. ## All works 5 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. **[MedAlign: A Clinician-Generated Dataset for Instruction Following with Electronic Medical Records ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v38i20.30205) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Scott L. Fleming et al.*2024 · 82 citations* 2. **[Evaluation of GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 for supporting real-world information needs in healthcare delivery ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13714) arXiv:2304.13714 · no summary yet**Debadutta Dash et al.*2023 · 44 citations* 3. **[Structured Scaling of AI Discovery Across Diverse Scientific Domains ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19341) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Haotian Ye et al.*2026 · 7 citations* 4. **[OctoTools: A Multi-Agent Framework with Extensible Tools for Complex Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2026-octotools-multi-agent-framework-extensible/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Pan Lu, Bowen Chen, Sheng Liu, et al.*2026 · 5 citations* 5. **[Reasoning or Knowledge: Stratified Evaluation of Biomedical LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/thapa-2026-reasoning-or-knowledge-stratified-evaluation/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Rahul Thapa, Qingyang Wu, Kevin Wu, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [James Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-zou/) ×2 - [Eric Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-wu/) - [Haotian Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haotian-ye/) - [Joseph Boen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joseph-boen/) - [Kevin Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-wu/) - [Pan Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pan-lu/) - [Qingyang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingyang-wu/) - [Sheng Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sheng-liu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 36 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahul-thapa/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026