--- title: "Shawn Tan — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Shawn Tan: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2023), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shawn-tan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shawn-tan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shawn Tan # Shawn Tan Shawn Tan has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2023, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Yikang Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yikang-shen/), [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/), [Chuang Gan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuang-gan/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5089182977) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0489-7455) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5089182977) · [56 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089182977) · [734 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089182977&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shawn-tan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 21 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shawn-tan/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9795](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/98/#star-9795) 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=Shawn+Tan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shawn+Tan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shawn+Tan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shawn+Tan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Université de Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2017–2023 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) · [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2020–2023 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2024–2026 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 2003–2018 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2025–2026 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Centre Universitaire de Mila** Mila · Algeria 2020–2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05s3cw058) · [🔬**Canadian Institute for Advanced Research** Toronto · Canada 2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/canadian-institute-for-advanced-research/) · [🎓**McGill University** Montreal · Canada 2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shawn-tan/year/2023/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shawn-tan/year/2019/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ModuleFormer: Modularity Emerges from Mixture-of-Experts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2023-moduleformer-modularity-emerges-mixture-experts/)** *(2023 · 21 citations)* Dense large language models use every parameter for every token. This makes them costly to run and hard to update with new knowledge without catastrophic forgetting. Earlier modular approaches based on Sparse Mixture of Experts, such as DEMix, depended on domain-labeled training data. The authors propose… 2. **[Investigating Biases in Textual Entailment Datasets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tan-2019-investigating-biases-textual-entailment-datasets/)** *(2019 · 7 citations)* The paper asks whether crowdsourced entailment corpora carry annotation artifacts similar to those found earlier in VQA, and whether NLI models exploit them. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yikang Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yikang-shen/) ×2 - [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/) - [Chuang Gan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuang-gan/) - [Zhenfang Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhenfang-chen/) - [Zheyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheyu-zhang/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 21 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shawn-tan/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026