--- title: "Varun Chandrasekaran — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Varun Chandrasekaran, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/varun-chandrasekaran/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/varun-chandrasekaran/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Varun Chandrasekaran # Varun Chandrasekaran Varun Chandrasekaran has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Ece Kamar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ece-kamar/), [Eric Horvitz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-horvitz/), [Hamid Palangi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamid-palangi/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5009092703) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0661-6378) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5009092703) · [72 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009092703) · [2,880 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009092703&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/varun-chandrasekaran/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 916 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/varun-chandrasekaran/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1260](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/13/#star-1260) 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=Varun+Chandrasekaran) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Varun+Chandrasekaran) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Varun+Chandrasekaran) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Varun+Chandrasekaran) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2023–2026 · 26 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**University of Virginia** Charlottesville · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-virginia/) · [🎓**University of Wisconsin–Madison** Madison · United States 2018–2024 · 20 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wisconsin-madison/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2023–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🔬**Vector Institute** Toronto · Canada 2021–2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/vector-institute/) · [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) 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 5 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 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/) 💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Artificial intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/artificial-intelligence/) · [Large language models · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/large-language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/varun-chandrasekaran/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/varun-chandrasekaran/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bubeck-2023-sparks-artificial-general-intelligence-early/)** *(2023 · 2,439 citations)* The paper asks whether a large language model trained only to predict the next token can show broad, general-purpose intelligence. 2. **[SACTOR: LLM-Driven Correct and Idiomatic C to Rust Translation with Static Analysis and FFI-Based Verification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2026-sactor-llm-driven-correct-idiomatic/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Moving legacy C code to Rust can remove whole classes of memory bugs. Rule-based converters such as C2Rust produce Rust that leans heavily on unsafe , and plain LLM prompting gives no assurance that the result behaves like the original. SACTOR addresses both problems. A libclang-based C Parser splits a program into… ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ece Kamar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ece-kamar/) - [Eric Horvitz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-horvitz/) - [Hamid Palangi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamid-palangi/) - [Harsha Nori](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harsha-nori/) - [Mihai Christodorescu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mihai-christodorescu/) - [Ronen Eldan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronen-eldan/) - [Scott Lundberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-lundberg/) - [Sébastien Bubeck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastien-bubeck/) - [Somesh Jha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/somesh-jha/) - [Yin Tat Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yin-tat-lee/) - [Yuanzhi Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanzhi-li/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 916 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [192 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/varun-chandrasekaran/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026