--- title: "Sahil Wadhwa — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Sahil Wadhwa, Stevens Institute of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahil-wadhwa/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahil-wadhwa/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sahil Wadhwa # Sahil Wadhwa Sahil Wadhwa has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, 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/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Huy Nghiem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huy-nghiem/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5026689021) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4037-9895) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5026689021) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5026689021) · [113 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5026689021&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahil-wadhwa/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 9 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahil-wadhwa/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9961](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/100/#star-9961) 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=Sahil+Wadhwa) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sahil+Wadhwa) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sahil+Wadhwa) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sahil+Wadhwa) ## Affiliations [🏢**Capital One** Tysons Corner · United States 2024–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/capital-one/) · [🎓**Stevens Institute of Technology** Hoboken · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stevens-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2019–2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahil-wadhwa/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahil-wadhwa/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Refining Input Guardrails: Enhancing LLM-as-a-Judge Efficiency Through Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning and Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rad-2025-refining-input-guardrails-enhancing-llm/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Conversational assistants built on LLMs need an input filter that catches fraudulent requests, illegal-activity requests and jailbreak attempts before they reach the main agent. 2. **[ART: Adaptive Reasoning Trees for Explainable Claim Verification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wadhwa-2026-art-adaptive-reasoning-trees-explainable/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* LLMs can reach fact-checking verdicts, but their reasoning is opaque and hard to challenge. Chain-of-Thought rationales may not reflect how the model actually decided. The authors (Capital One / Stevens Institute of Technology) propose ART (Adaptive Reasoning Trees), which turns a claim into a tree of pro and con… ## All works 3 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. [**Refining Input Guardrails: Enhancing LLM-as-a-Judge Efficiency Through Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning and Alignment arXiv:2501.13080**Melissa Kazemi Rad, Huy Nghiem, Andy Luo, et al.*2025 · 9 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rad-2025-refining-input-guardrails-enhancing-llm/) 2. **[ART: Adaptive Reasoning Trees for Explainable Claim Verification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wadhwa-2026-art-adaptive-reasoning-trees-explainable/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Sahil Wadhwa, Himanshu Kumar, Guanqun Yang, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 3. **[Adaptive Instruction Composition for Automated LLM Red-Teaming ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.2174/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Jesse Zymet et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Huy Nghiem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huy-nghiem/) ## 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/) - Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 9 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahil-wadhwa/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026