--- title: "Shashwat Goel · Max Planck Society — author profile and papers" description: "Shashwat Goel, Max Planck Society: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashwat-goel/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashwat-goel/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shashwat Goel # Shashwat Goel Shashwat Goel has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Alexander Pan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-pan/), [Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ann-kathrin-dombrowski/), [Long Phan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/long-phan/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5030450290) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5030450290) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030450290) · [151 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030450290&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashwat-goel/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 462 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashwat-goel/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4155](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4155) 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=Shashwat+Goel) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shashwat+Goel) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shashwat+Goel) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shashwat+Goel) ## Affiliations [🔬**Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems** Stuttgart · Germany 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-institute-for-intelligent-systems/) · [🔬**ELLIS Institute Tübingen** Tübingen · Germany 2024–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ellis-institute-tubingen/) · [🔬**Max Planck Society** Munich · Germany 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/max-planck-society/) · [🎓**International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad** Hyderabad · India 2022–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/international-institute-of-information-technology-hyderabad/) 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 4 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Safety Research · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashwat-goel/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashwat-goel/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zou-2023-representation-engineering-top-down-approach/)** *(2023 · 397 citations)* Interpretability methods that analyse individual neurons and circuits have trouble explaining the complex behaviour of large language models. 2. **[The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-wmdp-benchmark-measuring-reducing-malicious/)** *(2024 · 127 citations)* Governments and AI labs worry that large language models could help bad actors build biological, chemical or cyber weapons. ## All works 4 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. [**Representation Engineering: A Top-Down Approach to AI Transparency arXiv:2310.01405**Andy Zou, Long Phan, Sarah Chen, et al.*2023 · 397 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zou-2023-representation-engineering-top-down-approach/) 2. [**The WMDP Benchmark: Measuring and Reducing Malicious Use With Unlearning arXiv:2403.03218**Nathaniel Li, Alexander Pan, Anjali Gopal, et al.*2024 · 127 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-wmdp-benchmark-measuring-reducing-malicious/) 3. **[Rethinking Rubric Generation for Improving LLM Judge and Reward Modeling for Open-ended Tasks ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05125) arXiv:2602.05125 · no summary yet**William F. Shen et al.*2026 · 9 citations* 4. **[Training AI Co-Scientists Using Rubric Rewards ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.23707) arXiv:2512.23707 · no summary yet**Shashwat Goel et al.*2025 · 6 citations* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alexander Pan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-pan/) ×2 - [Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ann-kathrin-dombrowski/) ×2 - [Long Phan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/long-phan/) ×2 - [Nathaniel Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathaniel-li/) ×2 - [Alice Gatti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alice-gatti/) - [Andy Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andy-zou/) - [Mantas Mazeika](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mantas-mazeika/) - [Xuwang Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuwang-yin/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 462 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [139 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashwat-goel/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026