--- title: "Russ Biagio Altman — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Russ Biagio Altman, Stanford Medicine: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2024), h-index 106 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/russ-biagio-altman/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/russ-biagio-altman/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Russ Biagio Altman # Russ Biagio Altman Russ Biagio Altman has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Antoine Bosselut](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antoine-bosselut/), [Denny Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-zhou/), [Di Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/di-yin/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5084043782) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3859-2905) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7381092) · [**h-index 106**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5084043782) · [825 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5084043782) · [53,347 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5084043782&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/russ-biagio-altman/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,003 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/russ-biagio-altman/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1067](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/11/#star-1067) 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=Russ+Biagio+Altman) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Russ+Biagio+Altman) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Russ+Biagio+Altman) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Russ+Biagio+Altman) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 1983–2026 · 681 papersEducation 1983–1989 · PhD, Medical Information SciencesEmployment since 1992*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏥**Stanford Medicine** Stanford · United States 1986–2026 · 182 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/stanford-medicine/) · [🔬**Chan Zuckerberg Biohub San Francisco** San Francisco · United States 2019–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/chan-zuckerberg-biohub-san-francisco/) · [🎓**University of California, San Francisco** San Francisco · United States 2006–2020 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-francisco/) · [🎓**Vanderbilt University** Nashville · United States 2004–2016 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/vanderbilt-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🔬**Mayo Clinic** Rochester · United States 2006–2014 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mayo-clinic/) · [🎓**University of Florida** Gainesville · United States 2006–2014 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-florida/) · [🔬**SRI International** Menlo Park · United States 2006–2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/sri-international/) · [🎓**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill** Chapel Hill · United States 2006–2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 40 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 10 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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/) · [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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) 💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Artificial intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/artificial-intelligence/) · [Large language models · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/large-language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/russ-biagio-altman/year/2024/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/russ-biagio-altman/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bommasani-2021-opportunities-risks-foundation-models/)** *(2021 · 3,160 citations)* This Stanford CRFM report surveys a new way of building AI. Large models are pretrained on broad data, usually through self-supervision at scale, and then adapted to many downstream tasks. The authors name these "foundation models" (examples: BERT, GPT-3, CLIP, DALL-E). The report does not propose a dataset or… 2. **[CRISPR-GPT for Agentic Automation of Gene-editing Experiments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qu-2024-crispr-gpt-agentic-automation/)** *(2024 · 163 citations)* General-purpose LLMs such as ChatGPT-4 often perform poorly when asked to plan CRISPR experiments. They can produce guide RNA sequences that match no real genomic location, omit practical details like reagents, off-target checks and protocols, or bury useful advice in irrelevant text. The authors present CRISPR-GPT… ## All works 8 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. [**On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models arXiv:2108.07258**Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Ehsan Adeli, et al.*2021 · 3,160 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bommasani-2021-opportunities-risks-foundation-models/) 2. [**CRISPR-GPT for Agentic Automation of Gene-editing Experiments arXiv:2404.18021**Yuanhao Qu, Kaixuan Huang, Ming Yin, et al.*2024 · 163 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qu-2024-crispr-gpt-agentic-automation/) 3. **[Leveraging the Cell Ontology to classify unseen cell types ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25725-x) Nature Communications · no summary yet**Sheng Wang et al.*2021 · 65 citations* 4. **[Multilingual translation for zero-shot biomedical classification using BioTranslator ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36476-2) Nature Communications · no summary yet**Hanwen Xu et al.*2023 · 31 citations* 5. **[Detecting Contradictory COVID-19 Drug Efficacy Claims from Biomedical Literature ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.61/) Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Daniel Sosa et al.*2023 · 5 citations* 6. **[Drugs and where to find them : multi-scale artificial intelligence methods for identifying ligand-binding pockets and opioid-related social media posts ↗](https://doi.org/10.25740/vy423fc7431) Stanford Digital Repository · no summary yet**Kristy A. Carpenter et al.*2026* 7. **[AutoScreen: AI Co-Scientist System for Target Discovery in Functional Genomics ↗](https://doi.org/10.64898/2026.09.06.749678) bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · no summary yet**Yuanhao Qu et al.*2026* 8. **[Inducing Novel Gene-Drug Interactions from the Biomedical Literature ↗](https://openalex.org/W7096178590) no summary yet**Sepandar D. Kamvar et al.*2002* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Antoine Bosselut](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antoine-bosselut/) - [Denny Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-zhou/) - [Di Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/di-yin/) - [Drew A. Hudson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/drew-a-hudson/) - [Emma Brunskill](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emma-brunskill/) - [Kaixuan Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaixuan-huang/) - [Michael S. Bernstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-s-bernstein/) - [Ming Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-yin/) - [Rishi Bommasani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishi-bommasani/) - [Simran Arora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simran-arora/) - [Sydney von Arx](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sydney-von-arx/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Nature Communications ×2 - Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) - Stanford Digital Repository - bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,003 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [249 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/russ-biagio-altman/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026