--- title: "Simon Woodhead — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Simon Woodhead, University of Massachusetts Amherst: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-woodhead/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-woodhead/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Simon Woodhead # Simon Woodhead Simon Woodhead has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Alexander Scarlatos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-scarlatos/), [Andrew Lan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-lan/), [Naiming Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naiming-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5034068210) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2192-9797) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5034068210) · [53 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034068210) · [219 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034068210&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-woodhead/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 28 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-woodhead/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9393](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/94/#star-9393) 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=Simon+Woodhead) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Simon+Woodhead) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Simon+Woodhead) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Simon+Woodhead) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2024–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 6 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/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-woodhead/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-woodhead/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Improving the Validity of Automatically Generated Feedback via Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/scarlatos-2024-improving-validity-automatically-generated-feedback/)** *(2024 · 47 citations)* LLM-written feedback on students' wrong answers in math must be mathematically sound and must also follow good tutoring practice. 2. **[Novice Learner and Expert Tutor: Evaluating Math Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models with Misconceptions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-novice-learner-expert-tutor-evaluating/)** *(2023 · 14 citations)* Standard math benchmarks for LLMs only check whether a model reaches the right answer. This paper asks whether models understand mathematical concepts well enough to reason about wrong answers. It uses multiple-choice grade-school questions from the Eedi platform, where each distractor is tied to a known student… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alexander Scarlatos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-scarlatos/) - [Andrew Lan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-lan/) - [Naiming Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/naiming-liu/) - [Richard Baraniuk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-baraniuk/) - [Shashank Sonkar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashank-sonkar/) - [Zichao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zichao-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Lecture notes in computer science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lecture-notes-in-computer-science/): [Lecture notes in computer science 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lecture-notes-in-computer-science/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 28 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simon-woodhead/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026