--- title: "Shashank Sonkar — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Shashank Sonkar, University of Central Florida: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashank-sonkar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashank-sonkar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shashank Sonkar # Shashank Sonkar Shashank Sonkar has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, 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 [Richard Baraniuk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-baraniuk/), [Naiming Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naiming-liu/), [Kangqi Ni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangqi-ni/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5028809416) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4409-1341) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130803040) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5028809416) · [55 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5028809416) · [157 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5028809416&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashank-sonkar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 73 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashank-sonkar/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7636](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/77/#star-7636) 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=Shashank+Sonkar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shashank+Sonkar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shashank+Sonkar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shashank+Sonkar) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Central Florida** Orlando · United States 2025–2026 · 21 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-central-florida/) · [🎓**Rice University** Houston · United States 2020–2025 · 26 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rice-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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 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 [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashank-sonkar/year/2024/) · [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashank-sonkar/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CLASS: A Design Framework for Building Intelligent Tutoring Systems Based on Learning Science principles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sonkar-2023-class-design-framework-building-intelligent/)** *(2023 · 71 citations)* Building intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) has traditionally depended on rules or constraints written by human experts. 2. **[Pedagogical Alignment of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sonkar-2024-pedagogical-alignment-large-language-models/)** *(2024 · 54 citations)* Chat-based LLMs used as tutors tend to give students the final answer right away. Good teaching instead breaks a problem into steps and offers hints. The authors call the goal of training models toward this tutoring behaviour "pedagogical alignment." They treat it as a learning from human preferences (LHP) problem… 3. **[Novice Learner and Expert Tutor: Evaluating Math Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models with Misconceptions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-novice-learner-expert-tutor-evaluating/)** *(2023 · 14 citations)* Standard math benchmarks for LLMs only check whether a model reaches the right answer. This paper asks whether models understand mathematical concepts well enough to reason about wrong answers. It uses multiple-choice grade-school questions from the Eedi platform, where each distractor is tied to a known student… ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Richard Baraniuk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-baraniuk/) ×3 - [Naiming Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naiming-liu/) ×2 - [Kangqi Ni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangqi-ni/) - [Simon Woodhead](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-woodhead/) - [Zichao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zichao-wang/) ## 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: EMNLP 2023 ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 73 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashank-sonkar/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026