--- title: "Tejal Patwardhan · OpenAI — author profile and papers" description: "Tejal Patwardhan, OpenAI: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tejal-patwardhan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tejal-patwardhan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tejal Patwardhan # Tejal Patwardhan Tejal Patwardhan has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Aleksander Mądry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksander-madry/), [Dane Sherburn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dane-sherburn/), [Evan Mays](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evan-mays/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5109819212) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5109819212) · [16 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109819212) · [316 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109819212&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tejal-patwardhan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3,919 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tejal-patwardhan/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7190](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/72/#star-7190) 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=Tejal+Patwardhan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tejal+Patwardhan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tejal+Patwardhan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tejal+Patwardhan) ## Affiliations [🏢**OpenAI** San Francisco · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/openai/) 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 3 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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tejal-patwardhan/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tejal-patwardhan/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chan-2024-mle-bench-evaluating-machine/)** *(2024 · 140 citations)* MLE-bench addresses the lack of benchmarks that test whether AI agents can carry out machine learning engineering autonomously from start to finish, rather than solving isolated coding problems. 2. **[SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miserendino-2025-swe-lancer-frontier-llms-earn/)** *(2025 · 26 citations)* Most coding benchmarks, including SWE-Bench, test isolated problems that are easy to unit-test. They show little about how models handle realistic full-stack commercial work, or what that work is worth. The authors build SWE-Lancer from 1,488 real freelance jobs on the Expensify repository. These jobs were posted on… ## 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. [**MLE-bench: Evaluating Machine Learning Agents on Machine Learning Engineering arXiv:2410.07095**Jun Shern Chan, Neil Chowdhury, Oliver Jaffe, et al.*2024 · 140 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chan-2024-mle-bench-evaluating-machine/) 2. **[GDPval: Evaluating AI Model Performance on Real-World Economically Valuable Tasks ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04374) arXiv:2510.04374 · no summary yet**Tejal Patwardhan et al.*2025 · 33 citations* 3. [**SWE-Lancer: Can Frontier LLMs Earn $1 Million from Real-World Freelance Software Engineering? arXiv:2502.12115**Samuel Miserendino, Michele Wang, Tejal Patwardhan, et al.*2025 · 26 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miserendino-2025-swe-lancer-frontier-llms-earn/) ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aleksander Mądry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aleksander-madry/) - [Dane Sherburn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dane-sherburn/) - [Evan Mays](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evan-mays/) - [Giulio Starace](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giulio-starace/) - [James Aung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-aung/) - [Johannes Heidecke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johannes-heidecke/) - [Jun Shern Chan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-shern-chan/) - [Leon Maksin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leon-maksin/) - [Lilian Weng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lilian-weng/) - [Oliver Jaffe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oliver-jaffe/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3,919 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1,080 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tejal-patwardhan/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026