--- title: "Stephen Rawls — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Stephen Rawls, University of Chicago: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2025), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-rawls/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-rawls/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Stephen Rawls # Stephen Rawls Stephen Rawls has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Andy Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andy-luo/), [Andy Rosenbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andy-rosenbaum/), [Anna Rumshisky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-rumshisky/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5046697900) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8716-2528) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130934880) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5046697900) · [27 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046697900) · [783 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046697900&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-rawls/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 60 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-rawls/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8073](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/81/#star-8073) 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=Stephen+Rawls) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Stephen+Rawls) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Stephen+Rawls) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Stephen+Rawls) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Chicago** Chicago · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chicago/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2016–2019 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2020–2023 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🏢**Capital One** Tysons Corner · United States 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/capital-one/) 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 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 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-rawls/year/2025/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-rawls/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AlexaTM 20B: Few-Shot Learning Using a Large-Scale Multilingual Seq2Seq Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/soltan-2022-alexatm-20b-few-shot-learning/)** *(2022 · 84 citations)* Large language models that learn from a few examples in the prompt have mostly been decoder-only. Their left-to-right attention can be a handicap when the input is long. This Amazon Alexa AI paper asks whether an encoder-decoder model can be an equally strong in-context learner. 2. **[Refining Input Guardrails: Enhancing LLM-as-a-Judge Efficiency Through Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning and Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rad-2025-refining-input-guardrails-enhancing-llm/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Conversational assistants built on LLMs need an input filter that catches fraudulent requests, illegal-activity requests and jailbreak attempts before they reach the main agent. ## 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. **[Pose-Aware Face Recognition in the Wild ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2016.523) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Iacopo Masi et al.*2016 · 245 citations* 2. [**AlexaTM 20B: Few-Shot Learning Using a Large-Scale Multilingual Seq2Seq Model arXiv:2208.01448**Saleh Soltan, Shankar Ananthakrishnan, Jack FitzGerald, et al.*2022 · 84 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/soltan-2022-alexatm-20b-few-shot-learning/) 3. [**Refining Input Guardrails: Enhancing LLM-as-a-Judge Efficiency Through Chain-of-Thought Fine-Tuning and Alignment arXiv:2501.13080**Melissa Kazemi Rad, Huy Nghiem, Andy Luo, et al.*2025 · 9 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rad-2025-refining-input-guardrails-enhancing-llm/) ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andy Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andy-luo/) - [Andy Rosenbaum](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andy-rosenbaum/) - [Anna Rumshisky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-rumshisky/) - [Charith Peris](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charith-peris/) - [Haidar Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haidar-khan/) - [Huy Nghiem](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huy-nghiem/) - [Rahul Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahul-gupta/) - [Sahil Wadhwa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahil-wadhwa/) - [Wael Hamza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wael-hamza/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 60 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [22 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-rawls/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026