--- title: "William F. Shen — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "William F. Shen, University of Cambridge: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-f-shen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-f-shen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / William F. Shen # William F. Shen William F. Shen has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Chenxi Whitehouse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenxi-whitehouse/), [Francesco Barbieri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-barbieri/), [Ilias Leontiadis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ilias-leontiadis/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5113222165) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2327-1697) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5113222165) · [23 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113222165) · [7 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113222165&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-f-shen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 15 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-f-shen/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11547](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/116/#star-11547) 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=William+F.+Shen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=William+F.+Shen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=William+F.+Shen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=William+F.+Shen) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2024–2026 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) 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 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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-f-shen/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-f-shen/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Rethinking Rubric Generation for Improving LLM Judge and Reward Modeling for Open-ended Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2026-rethinking-rubric-generation-improving-llm/)** *(2026 · 9 citations)* LLM judges are unreliable on open-ended outputs such as creative writing, planning or roleplay, where quality is subjective and has many dimensions. 2. **[Training AI Co-Scientists Using Rubric Rewards](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/goel-2025-training-ai-co-scientists/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* Language models struggle to draft research plans for open-ended scientific goals. They often miss explicit constraints and unstated requirements, and validating a plan through real experiments is slow, costly, or, as in medicine, impossible. The authors turn published papers into a training signal. Llama-4-Maverick… ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chenxi Whitehouse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenxi-whitehouse/) ×2 - [Francesco Barbieri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-barbieri/) ×2 - [Ilias Leontiadis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ilias-leontiadis/) ×2 - [Shashwat Goel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shashwat-goel/) ×2 - [Timon Willi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timon-willi/) ×2 - [Akhil Mathur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akhil-mathur/) - [Jonas Geiping](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonas-geiping/) - [Lisa Alazraki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lisa-alazraki/) - [Parag Jain](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/parag-jain/) - [Rishi Hazra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishi-hazra/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 15 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-f-shen/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026