--- title: "Shuhaib Mehri — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Shuhaib Mehri, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuhaib-mehri/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuhaib-mehri/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shuhaib Mehri # Shuhaib Mehri Shuhaib Mehri has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Dilek Hakkani-Tür](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/), [Gokhan Tur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokhan-tur/), [Heng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5116211062) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0005-1330-3515) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5116211062) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5116211062) · [7 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5116211062&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuhaib-mehri/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuhaib-mehri/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12053](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/121/#star-12053) 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=Shuhaib+Mehri) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shuhaib+Mehri) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shuhaib+Mehri) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shuhaib+Mehri) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2025–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) 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 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/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuhaib-mehri/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Goal Alignment in LLM-Based User Simulators for Conversational AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mehri-2026-goal-alignment-llm-based-user/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* LLM-based user simulators are used to build and evaluate conversational agents, but they often lose track of their assigned goals over long dialogues. 2. **[Beyond Sample-Level Feedback: Using Reference-Level Feedback to Guide Data Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mehri-2026-beyond-sample-level-feedback-reference/)** *(2026)* Synthetic instruction-tuning data is cheap to produce, but a model trained on it usually cannot exceed the LLM that generated it. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dilek Hakkani-Tür](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dilek-hakkani-tur/) ×2 - [Gokhan Tur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokhan-tur/) - [Heng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/) - [Shikib Mehri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shikib-mehri/) - [Takyoung Kim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/takyoung-kim/) - [Xiaocheng Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaocheng-yang/) - [Xiusi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiusi-chen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4 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/shuhaib-mehri/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026