--- title: "Ruxandra Cojocaru — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Ruxandra Cojocaru: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruxandra-cojocaru/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruxandra-cojocaru/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ruxandra Cojocaru # Ruxandra Cojocaru Ruxandra Cojocaru has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, 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/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Badreddine Noune](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/badreddine-noune/), [Daniele Mazzotta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniele-mazzotta/), [Ebtesam Almazrouei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ebtesam-almazrouei/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5078314202) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0496-5355) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q91632160) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5078314202) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078314202) · [457 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078314202&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruxandra-cojocaru/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 382 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruxandra-cojocaru/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4298](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/43/#star-4298) 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=Ruxandra+Cojocaru) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ruxandra+Cojocaru) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ruxandra+Cojocaru) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ruxandra+Cojocaru) ## Affiliations [🎓**Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya** Barcelona · Spain 2011–2018 · 7 papersEducation 2011–2012 · Master in Computational and Applied PhysicsEducation 2012–2016 · PhD in Computational and Applied PhysicsEmployment 2012–2016 · Research Staff in Training/PhD Candidate, Computational and Applied Physics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya/) · [🔬**Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya** Castelldefels · Spain 2014–2018 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/00k6njn28) · [🔬**European Synchrotron Radiation Facility** Grenoble · France 2016–2022 · 5 papersEmployment 2016–2018 · Postdoctoral researcher, BM05 - Instrumentation Services & Development Division](https://ror.org/02550n020) · [🔬**Technology Innovation Institute** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2022–2023 · 2 papersEmployment 2022–2023 · Senior Researcher, AI Cross-Center Unit (AICCU)Employment since 2023 · Lead Researcher, AI Cross-Center Unit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/technology-innovation-institute/) · [🎓**Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University** Onna · Japan 2019–2021Employment 2019–2021 · Research Unit Engineer, Neural Coding and Brain Computing Unit - Tomoki Fukai Unit](https://ror.org/02qg15b79) 🏛️**Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya** Barcelona · [Spain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/spain/) 2011–2012Employment 2011–2012 · Intern, IT Department 🏛️**School of Mathematics and Statistics** Barcelona · [Spain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/spain/) 2011–2012Employment 2011–2012 [🎓**Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona** Cerdanyola del Vallès · Spain 2010–2011Education 2010–2011 · Erasmus LLP Exchange, Computer Engineering/Physics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-autonoma-de-barcelona/) 🏛️**Universitatea Politehnica din Bucuresti, Facultatea de Stiinte Aplicate** Bucuresti · [Romania](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/romania/) 2007–2011Education 2007–2011 · Engineering Physics - Applied Sciences 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).[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/) · [Education · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/education/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruxandra-cojocaru/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Falcon Series of Open Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/almazrouei-2023-falcon-series-open-language-models/)** *(2023 · 443 citations)* The paper documents how the Technology Innovation Institute pretrained Falcon, a family of open causal decoder-only language models with 7B, 40B and 180B parameters. 2. **[AlGhafa Evaluation Benchmark for Arabic Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/almazrouei-2023-alghafa-evaluation-benchmark-arabic-language/)** *(2023 · 46 citations)* Arabic large language models are advancing quickly, but there are still few tools to measure them. Arabic is spoken by about 360 million people, yet it makes up only around half a percent of CommonCrawl. The authors address this gap with AlGhafa, a multiple-choice benchmark for zero- and few-shot evaluation. They… ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Badreddine Noune](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/badreddine-noune/) ×2 - [Daniele Mazzotta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniele-mazzotta/) ×2 - [Ebtesam Almazrouei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ebtesam-almazrouei/) ×2 - [Hamza Alobeidli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamza-alobeidli/) ×2 - [Julien Launay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julien-launay/) ×2 - [Quentin Malartic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/quentin-malartic/) ×2 - [Daniel Hesslow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-hesslow/) - [Étienne Goffinet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/etienne-goffinet/) - [Giulia Campesan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giulia-campesan/) - [Guilherme Penedo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guilherme-penedo/) - [Maitha Alhammadi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maitha-alhammadi/) - [Merouane Debbah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/merouane-debbah/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference (ArabicNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/): [ArabicNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/arabicnlp/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 382 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [104 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruxandra-cojocaru/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026