--- title: "Tobias Gerstenberg — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Tobias Gerstenberg, Stanford University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 30 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tobias-gerstenberg/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tobias-gerstenberg/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tobias Gerstenberg # Tobias Gerstenberg Tobias Gerstenberg 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/); often with [Allen Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allen-nie/), [Eric Zelikman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-zelikman/), [Kanishk Gandhi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishk-gandhi/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5039540205) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9162-0779) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59752450) · [**h-index 30**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039540205) · [506 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039540205) · [3,392 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039540205&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tobias-gerstenberg/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,315 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tobias-gerstenberg/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7627](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/77/#star-7627) 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=Tobias+Gerstenberg) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tobias+Gerstenberg) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tobias+Gerstenberg) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tobias+Gerstenberg) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2015–2026 · 103 papersEmployment since 2018 · Assistant Professor, Psychology*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2014–2021 · 23 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University College London** London · United Kingdom 2009–2018 · 13 papersEducation 2009–2013 · PhD, Experimental Psychology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/) · [🎓**University of Göttingen** Göttingen · Germany 2018–2020 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-gottingen/) · [🎓**Dartmouth College** Hanover · United States 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dartmouth-college/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 8 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tobias-gerstenberg/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tobias-gerstenberg/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nie-2023-moca-measuring-human-language-model/)** *(2023 · 41 citations)* Large language models are increasingly used as stand-ins for people, yet aggregate accuracy scores reveal little about whether they reason like humans. 2. **[Self-Supervised Alignment with Mutual Information: Learning to Follow Principles without Preference Labels](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/franken-2024-self-supervised-alignment-mutual-information/)** *(2024 · 16 citations)* Teaching a language model to respect a set of behavioral rules (a "constitution") usually depends on human preference labels, curated demonstrations, or reward models with reinforcement learning. ## All works 4 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. **[Explanations Can Reduce Overreliance on AI Systems During Decision-Making ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3579605) Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · no summary yet**Helena Vasconcelos et al.*2023 · 407 citations* 2. **[STaR-GATE: Teaching Language Models to Ask Clarifying Questions ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19154) arXiv:2403.19154 · no summary yet**Chinmaya Andukuri et al.*2024 · 43 citations* 3. **[MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nie-2023-moca-measuring-human-language-model/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Allen Nie, Yuhui Zhang, Atharva Amdekar, et al.*2023 · 41 citations* 4. **[Self-Supervised Alignment with Mutual Information: Learning to Follow Principles without Preference Labels](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/franken-2024-self-supervised-alignment-mutual-information/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Jan-Philipp Franken, Eric Zelikman, Rafael Rafailov, et al.*2024 · 16 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Allen Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/allen-nie/) - [Eric Zelikman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-zelikman/) - [Kanishk Gandhi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishk-gandhi/) - [Noah D. Goodman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-d-goodman/) - [Rafael Rafailov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafael-rafailov/) - [Tatsunori Hashimoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatsunori-hashimoto/) - [Yuhui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuhui-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/) ×2: [NeurIPS 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/), [NeurIPS 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2023/) - Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,315 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [312 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tobias-gerstenberg/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026