--- title: "Shekoofeh Azizi — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Shekoofeh Azizi, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2024), h-index 29 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shekoofeh-azizi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shekoofeh-azizi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shekoofeh Azizi # Shekoofeh Azizi Shekoofeh Azizi has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [S. Sara Mahdavi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/s-sara-mahdavi/), [Tao Tu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-tu/), [Heather Cole-Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heather-cole-lewis/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5047463591) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7447-6031) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q52674127) · [**h-index 29**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5047463591) · [72 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047463591) · [9,299 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5047463591&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shekoofeh-azizi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,001 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shekoofeh-azizi/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #775](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/8/#star-775) 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=Shekoofeh+Azizi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shekoofeh+Azizi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shekoofeh+Azizi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shekoofeh+Azizi) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2020–2026 · 17 papersEmployment 2020–2021*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 2014–2019 · 14 papersEducation 2014–2018 · Ph.D., electrical and Computer Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2023–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**Isfahan University of Technology** Isfahan · Iran 2007–2014 · 5 papersEducation 2007–2011 · B.Sc., Electrical and Computer EngineeringEducation 2011–2013 · M.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering](https://ror.org/00af3sa43) · [🏢**Google** Waterloo · Canada 2021–2023 · 2 papersEmployment since 2021 · Senior Research Scientist, Google Brain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-canada/) · [🏢**Huawei Technologies** Markham · Canada 2018–2020 · 1 paperEmployment 2018–2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/huawei-technologies-canada/) 🏛️**Google LLC** Mountain View · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2020–2021Employment 2020–2021 · Research Scientist, Google Brain 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 9 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Materials Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) · [Materials Chemistry · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/materials-chemistry/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) 💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Language model · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/language-model/) · [Large language models · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/large-language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shekoofeh-azizi/year/2024/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shekoofeh-azizi/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singhal-2022-large-language-models-encode-clinical/)** *(2022 · 4,492 citations)* The paper asks how much medical knowledge large language models hold and how to measure it more seriously than with a single accuracy score. 2. **[Tx-LLM: A Large Language Model for Therapeutics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chaves-2024-tx-llm-large-language-model/)** *(2024 · 23 citations)* Bringing a drug to approval takes many years and large sums, and most candidates fail because they must meet many requirements at once: binding the target, low toxicity, good pharmacokinetics, and manufacturability. ## All works 6 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. **[Large Language Models Encode Clinical Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singhal-2022-large-language-models-encode-clinical/) [Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/)**Karan Singhal, Shekoofeh Azizi, Tao Tu, et al.*2022 · 4,492 citations* 2. **[Big Self-Supervised Models Advance Medical Image Classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv48922.2021.00346) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Shekoofeh Azizi et al.*2021 · 665 citations* 3. **[Towards Generalist Biomedical AI ↗](https://doi.org/10.1056/aioa2300138) NEJM AI · no summary yet**Tao Tu et al.*2024 · 532 citations* 4. [**Tx-LLM: A Large Language Model for Therapeutics arXiv:2406.06316**Juan Manuel Zambrano Chaves, Eric Wang, Tao Tu, et al.*2024 · 23 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chaves-2024-tx-llm-large-language-model/) 5. **[ResidencyRL: Reinforcement Learning in Simulated Clinical Environments ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.07418) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Valentin Liévin et al.*2026* 6. **[Accelerating Scientific Research with Gemini in the Real-World ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.26701) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Samuel Schmidgall et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [S. Sara Mahdavi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/s-sara-mahdavi/) ×2 - [Tao Tu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-tu/) ×2 - [Heather Cole-Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heather-cole-lewis/) - [Hyung Won Chung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hyung-won-chung/) - [Jason Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-wei/) - [Karan Singhal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karan-singhal/) - [Nathan Scales](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-scales/) - [Stephen Pfohl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-pfohl/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/): [Nature 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/2022/) - IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) - NEJM AI ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,001 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [192 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shekoofeh-azizi/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026