--- title: "Shravan Nayak — author profile and papers · Vision & language" description: "Shravan Nayak, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shravan-nayak/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shravan-nayak/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shravan Nayak # Shravan Nayak Shravan Nayak has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Aishwarya Agrawal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-agrawal/), [Eduardo Blanco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduardo-blanco/), [Karolina Stanczak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karolina-stanczak/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5003441670) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5298-7121) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5003441670) · [35 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003441670) · [82 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003441670&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shravan-nayak/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 54 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shravan-nayak/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7035](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/71/#star-7035) 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=Shravan+Nayak) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shravan+Nayak) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shravan+Nayak) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shravan+Nayak) ## Affiliations [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2024–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) · [🎓**Université de Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2024–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology BHU** Varanasi · India 2017–2022 · 5 papersEducation 2017–2021 · BTech, Electronics Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-bhu/) · [🎓**Banaras Hindu University** Varanasi · India 2020–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/banaras-hindu-university/) · [🎓**Universität Hamburg** Hamburg · Germany 2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-hamburg/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Hyderabad · India 2021Employment since 2021 · Software Engineer, PowerPoint Mobile](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-india/) 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 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.[Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shravan-nayak/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shravan-nayak/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Benchmarking Vision Language Models for Cultural Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nayak-2024-benchmarking-vision-language-models-cultural/)** *(2024 · 87 citations)* Vision Language Models (VLMs) are usually tested on generic scene understanding, such as spotting objects, attributes and actions. 2. **[Grammar Search for Multi-Agent Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2026-grammar-search-multi-agent-systems/)** *(2026)* Automatically designing multi-agent systems (MASes) built from LLMs usually means letting an LLM write free-form code for each candidate. ## All works 3 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. **[Benchmarking Vision Language Models for Cultural Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nayak-2024-benchmarking-vision-language-models-cultural/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Shravan Nayak, Kanishk Jain, Rabiul Awal, et al.*2024 · 87 citations* 2. **[Merkel Podcast Corpus: A Multimodal Dataset Compiled from 16 Years of Angela Merkel's Weekly Video Podcasts ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.lrec-1.270/) Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yet**Debjoy Saha, Shravan Nayak, Timo Baumann*2022 · 1 citation* 3. **[Grammar Search for Multi-Agent Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2026-grammar-search-multi-agent-systems/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mayank Singh, Vikas Yadav, Shiva Krishna Reddy Malay, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aishwarya Agrawal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-agrawal/) - [Eduardo Blanco](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eduardo-blanco/) - [Karolina Stanczak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karolina-stanczak/) - [Lisa Anne Hendricks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lisa-anne-hendricks/) - [Mayank Singh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mayank-singh/) - [Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sathwik-tejaswi-madhusudhan/) - [Shiva Krishna Reddy Malay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiva-krishna-reddy-malay/) - [Siva Reddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siva-reddy/) - [Vikas Yadav](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vikas-yadav/) ## 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 on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 54 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shravan-nayak/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026