--- title: "Zachary S. Siegel — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Zachary S. Siegel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-s-siegel/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-s-siegel/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zachary S. Siegel # Zachary S. Siegel Zachary S. Siegel has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Arvind Narayanan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arvind-narayanan/), [Benedikt Stroebl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benedikt-stroebl/), [Hongjin Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongjin-su/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100018314) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100018314) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100018314) · [23 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100018314&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-s-siegel/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 166 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-s-siegel/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7395](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/74/#star-7395) 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=Zachary+S.+Siegel) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zachary+S.+Siegel) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zachary+S.+Siegel) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zachary+S.+Siegel) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2022–2024 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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).[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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Inverted index · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/inverted-index/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-s-siegel/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[BRIGHT: A Realistic and Challenging Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/su-2024-bright-realistic-challenging-benchmark-reasoning/)** *(2024 · 77 citations)* Standard retrieval benchmarks such as BEIR and MTEB mostly test search-engine-style questions. In these, relevant documents share many words or meanings with the query. Many real needs are harder. A programmer may need documentation for a function that is never named in the question, or a student may need a problem… 2. **[AI Agents That Matter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kapoor-2024-ai-agents-that-matter/)** *(2024 · 55 citations)* Benchmarks steer the development of LLM-based agents. The Princeton authors argue that current evaluation habits reward topping leaderboards rather than building systems that work in practice. They identify four problems: ## 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. [**BRIGHT: A Realistic and Challenging Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval arXiv:2407.12883**Hongjin Su, Howard Yen, Mengzhou Xia, et al.*2024 · 77 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/su-2024-bright-realistic-challenging-benchmark-reasoning/) 2. [**AI Agents That Matter arXiv:2407.01502**Sayash Kapoor, Benedikt Stroebl, Zachary S. Siegel, et al.*2024 · 55 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kapoor-2024-ai-agents-that-matter/) 3. **[CORE-Bench: Fostering the Credibility of Published Research Through a Computational Reproducibility Agent Benchmark ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.11363) arXiv:2409.11363 · no summary yet**Zachary S. Siegel et al.*2024 · 39 citations* 4. **[Holistic Agent Leaderboard: The Missing Infrastructure for AI Agent Evaluation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11977) arXiv:2510.11977 · no summary yet**Sayash Kapoor et al.*2025 · 11 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arvind Narayanan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arvind-narayanan/) - [Benedikt Stroebl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benedikt-stroebl/) - [Hongjin Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongjin-su/) - [Howard Yen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/howard-yen/) - [Jinsung Yoon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinsung-yoon/) - [Mengzhou Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mengzhou-xia/) - [Michael Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-tang/) - [Niklas Muennighoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niklas-muennighoff/) - [Quan Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/quan-shi/) - [Ruoxi Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruoxi-sun/) - [Weijia Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weijia-shi/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 166 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [35 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-s-siegel/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026