--- title: "Sangmitra Madhusudan — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Sangmitra Madhusudan, Emory University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sangmitra-madhusudan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sangmitra-madhusudan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sangmitra Madhusudan # Sangmitra Madhusudan Sangmitra Madhusudan has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [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 [Ali Emami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-emami/), [Arash Asgari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arash-asgari/), [Hassan Sajjad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hassan-sajjad/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5114402594) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5114402594) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114402594) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114402594&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sangmitra-madhusudan/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11848](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/119/#star-11848) 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=Sangmitra+Madhusudan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sangmitra+Madhusudan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sangmitra+Madhusudan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sangmitra+Madhusudan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Brock University** St. Catharines · Canada 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brock-university/) · [🎓**Emory University** Atlanta · United States 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/emory-university/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](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** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sangmitra-madhusudan/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Common to Whom? Regional Cultural Commonsense and LLM Bias in India](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/madhusudan-2026-common-whom-regional-cultural-commonsense/)** *(2026)* Benchmarks for cultural commonsense, such as CultureBank and CulturalBench, usually treat each country as a single cultural unit. 2. **[The Dog the Cat Chased Stumped the Model: Measuring When Language Models Abandon Structure for Shortcuts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/madhusudan-2026-dog-cat-chased-stumped-model/)** *(2026)* When a language model correctly answers questions about a sentence with nested relative clauses, it is hard to tell whether it tracked the syntax or simply guessed from familiar real-world associations. 3. **[ZIP: Quantifying Which Words Matter in Zero-Shot Instructional Prompts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sadr-2026-zip-quantifying-which-words-matter/)** *(2026)* Zero-shot instructional prompts such as the Chain-of-Thought cue "Let's think step-by-step" reliably improve LLM accuracy, but it has been unclear which individual words produce the gain. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ali Emami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-emami/) ×3 - [Arash Asgari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arash-asgari/) - [Hassan Sajjad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hassan-sajjad/) - [Jad Kabbara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jad-kabbara/) - [Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laleh-seyyed-kalantari/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (*SEM)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/): [*SEM 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/starsem/2026/) Updated 1 November 2026