--- title: "Sonal Kumar · Adobe Systems — author profile and papers" description: "Sonal Kumar, Adobe Systems: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sonal-kumar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sonal-kumar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sonal Kumar # Sonal Kumar Sonal Kumar has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Ashish Seth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashish-seth/), [Dinesh Manocha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dinesh-manocha/), [Oriol Nieto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oriol-nieto/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101999829) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3298-314X) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101999829) · [46 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101999829) · [193 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101999829&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sonal-kumar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 127 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sonal-kumar/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7050](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/71/#star-7050) 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=Sonal+Kumar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sonal+Kumar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sonal+Kumar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sonal+Kumar) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2023–2026 · 25 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🏢**Adobe Systems** San Jose · United States 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/adobe-systems/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati** Guwahati · India 1995–2026 · 1 paperEducation since 2020 · Ph.D., Computer Science & EngineeringEmployment since 1995 · Research Scholar, Computer Science and Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-guwahati/) · [🏢**Nvidia** Santa Clara · United States 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/nvidia/) · [🏢**Cisco Systems** San Jose · United States 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/cisco-systems/) · [🎓**Christ University** Bengaluru · India 2020 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/022tv9y30) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 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).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Speech & spoken language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sonal-kumar/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[GAMA: A Large Audio-Language Model with Advanced Audio Understanding and Complex Reasoning Abilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2024-gama-large-audio-language-model/)** *(2024 · 87 citations)* Large audio-language models (LALMs) such as LTU, SALMONN and Pengi handle captioning and simple factual audio questions well. 2. **[MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sakshi-2024-mmau-massive-multi-task-audio/)** *(2024 · 67 citations)* Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) are usually tested on basic tasks such as ASR, acoustic scene classification, or genre labeling. ## 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. **[GAMA: A Large Audio-Language Model with Advanced Audio Understanding and Complex Reasoning Abilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ghosh-2024-gama-large-audio-language-model/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Sreyan Ghosh, Sonal Kumar, Ashish Seth, et al.*2024 · 87 citations* 2. [**MMAU: A Massive Multi-Task Audio Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark arXiv:2410.19168**S Sakshi, Utkarsh Tyagi, Sonal Kumar, et al.*2024 · 67 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sakshi-2024-mmau-massive-multi-task-audio/) 3. **[DALE: Generative Data Augmentation for Low-Resource Legal NLP ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.528/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Sreyan Ghosh et al.*2023 · 34 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ashish Seth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashish-seth/) ×2 - [Dinesh Manocha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dinesh-manocha/) ×2 - [Oriol Nieto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oriol-nieto/) ×2 - [Ramani Duraiswami](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramani-duraiswami/) ×2 - [S Sakshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/s-sakshi/) ×2 - [Sreyan Ghosh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sreyan-ghosh/) ×2 - [Utkarsh Tyagi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/utkarsh-tyagi/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 127 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [37 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sonal-kumar/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026