--- title: "Ramtin Pedarsani — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Ramtin Pedarsani, University of California, Santa Barbara: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 31 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramtin-pedarsani/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramtin-pedarsani/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ramtin Pedarsani # Ramtin Pedarsani Ramtin Pedarsani has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Zhiyu Xue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyu-xue/), [Reza Abbasi-Asl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reza-abbasi-asl/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5040270189) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1126-0292) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130873884) · [**h-index 31**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5040270189) · [154 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5040270189) · [4,516 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5040270189&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramtin-pedarsani/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramtin-pedarsani/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12782](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/128/#star-12782) 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=Ramtin+Pedarsani) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ramtin+Pedarsani) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ramtin+Pedarsani) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ramtin+Pedarsani) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Santa Barbara** Santa Barbara · United States 2014–2026 · 109 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2014–2023 · 19 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2017–2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne** Lausanne · Switzerland 2010–2011 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 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/) · [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/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramtin-pedarsani/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Enhancing the Safety of Medical Vision-Language Models by Synthetic Demonstrations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xue-2026-enhancing-safety-medical-vision-language/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Generative medical vision-language models (Med-VLMs) can be pushed into answering malicious requests, such as using a scan to commit fraud. 2. **[Benchmarking and Mitigating the Impact of Noisy User Prompts in Medical VLMs via Cross-Modal Reflection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xue-2026-benchmarking-mitigating-impact-noisy-user/)** *(2026)* Medical vision-language models (Med-VLMs) are often given user-supplied clinical hints, but it was unclear how they react when those hints are wrong. 3. **[Deactivating Refusal Triggers: Understanding and Mitigating Overrefusal in Safety Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xue-2026-deactivating-refusal-triggers-understanding-mitigating/)** *(2026)* Safety-aligned LLMs often refuse harmless requests, a failure known as overrefusal. This paper asks why safety fine-tuning causes it. The authors argue that harmful training queries contain non-harmful parts, such as ordinary events ("create a video") or polite help-seeking phrases ("Can you help me"). During… ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Imitation Learning by Estimating Expertise of Demonstrators ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01288) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Mark Beliaev et al.*2022 · 9 citations* 2. **[Enhancing the Safety of Medical Vision-Language Models by Synthetic Demonstrations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xue-2026-enhancing-safety-medical-vision-language/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Zhiyu Xue, Reza Abbasi-Asl, Ramtin Pedarsani*2026 · 1 citation* 3. **[Benchmarking and Mitigating the Impact of Noisy User Prompts in Medical VLMs via Cross-Modal Reflection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xue-2026-benchmarking-mitigating-impact-noisy-user/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Zhiyu Xue, Reza Abbasi-Asl, Ramtin Pedarsani*2026* 4. **[Deactivating Refusal Triggers: Understanding and Mitigating Overrefusal in Safety Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xue-2026-deactivating-refusal-triggers-understanding-mitigating/) [Workshop on Trustworthy NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/trustnlp/)**Zhiyu Xue, Zimo Qi, Guangliang Liu, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Zhiyu Xue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyu-xue/) ×3 - [Reza Abbasi-Asl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/reza-abbasi-asl/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) ×2: [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) ×2 - [Workshop on Trustworthy NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/trustnlp/): [Workshop on Trustworthy NLP 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/trustnlp/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramtin-pedarsani/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026