--- title: "Sahel Sharifymoghaddam — author profile and papers" description: "Sahel Sharifymoghaddam, University of Waterloo: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahel-sharifymoghaddam/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahel-sharifymoghaddam/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sahel Sharifymoghaddam # Sahel Sharifymoghaddam Sahel Sharifymoghaddam has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Jimmy Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimmy-lin/), [Ronak Pradeep](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronak-pradeep/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5053032107) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0008-8337-6930) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5053032107) · [20 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053032107) · [63 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053032107&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahel-sharifymoghaddam/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 70 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahel-sharifymoghaddam/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8282](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/83/#star-8282) 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=Sahel+Sharifymoghaddam) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sahel+Sharifymoghaddam) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sahel+Sharifymoghaddam) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sahel+Sharifymoghaddam) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 2023–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) 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 5 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/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahel-sharifymoghaddam/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahel-sharifymoghaddam/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[RankVicuna: Zero-Shot Listwise Document Reranking with Open-Source Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pradeep-2023-rankvicuna-zero-shot-listwise-document/)** *(2023 · 81 citations)* LLM-based listwise reranking has so far relied on proprietary models such as GPT 3.5 and GPT 4 accessed through APIs. 2. **[Rerank Before You Reason: Analyzing Reranking Tradeoffs through Effective Token Cost in Deep Search Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharifymoghaddam-2026-rerank-before-you-reason-analyzing/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Deep search agents answer hard multi-hop questions by alternating between issuing queries and reasoning. Scaling this test-time computation is costly, and the role of reranking in such pipelines has received little study. The authors use the BrowseComp-Plus benchmark, which runs agents against a fixed, human-verified… ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jimmy Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimmy-lin/) ×2 - [Ronak Pradeep](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronak-pradeep/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 70 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahel-sharifymoghaddam/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026