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# Tolga Bolukbasi

Tolga Bolukbasi has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2023, most of them on [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Adam Tauman Kalai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-tauman-kalai/), [Albert Webson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/albert-webson/), [Ellie Pavlick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellie-pavlick/).

2 papers in our library · 2016–2023

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082178510) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082178510) · [44 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082178510) · [3,739 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082178510&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tolga-bolukbasi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4,441 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tolga-bolukbasi/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1572](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/16/#star-1572)

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=Tolga+Bolukbasi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tolga+Bolukbasi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tolga+Bolukbasi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tolga+Bolukbasi)

## Affiliations

[🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2019–2023 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Boston University** Boston · United States 2014–2019 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/boston-university/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/)

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).[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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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.[Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/)

💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[GloVe · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/glove/) · [Word embeddings · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/word-embeddings/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tolga-bolukbasi/year/2023/)

### 2010s

[**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tolga-bolukbasi/year/2016/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bolukbasi-2016-man-computer-programmer-woman-homemaker/)** *(2016 · 2,079 citations)* The paper asks whether widely used word embeddings carry gender stereotypes, and whether those stereotypes can be removed without losing the embeddings' usefulness.
2. **[Simfluence: Modeling the Influence of Individual Training Examples by Simulating Training Runs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guu-2023-simfluence-modeling-influence-individual-training/)** *(2023 · 33 citations)* Training data attribution (TDA) tries to explain a model's behavior on a test example by identifying the training examples responsible for it.

## 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. [**Man is to Computer Programmer as Woman is to Homemaker? Debiasing Word Embeddings arXiv:1607.06520**Tolga Bolukbasi, Kai-Wei Chang, James Zou, et al.*2016 · 2,079 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bolukbasi-2016-man-computer-programmer-woman-homemaker/)
2. **[XRAI: Better Attributions Through Regions ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv.2019.00505) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Andrei Kapishnikov et al.*2019 · 200 citations*
3. **[The Language Interpretability Tool: Extensible, Interactive Visualizations and Analysis for NLP Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-demos.15/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations · no summary yet**Ian Tenney et al.*2020 · 195 citations*
4. [**Simfluence: Modeling the Influence of Individual Training Examples by Simulating Training Runs arXiv:2303.08114**Kelvin Guu, Albert Webson, Ellie Pavlick, et al.*2023 · 33 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guu-2023-simfluence-modeling-influence-individual-training/)

## Co-authors here

8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Adam Tauman Kalai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-tauman-kalai/)
- [Albert Webson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/albert-webson/)
- [Ellie Pavlick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ellie-pavlick/)
- [Ian Tenney](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ian-tenney/)
- [James Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-zou/)
- [Kai-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-wei-chang/)
- [Kelvin Guu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kelvin-guu/)
- [Lucas Dixon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-dixon/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 4,441 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1,076 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tolga-bolukbasi/cited-by/).

Updated 3 November 2026
