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# University of California, Santa Barbara

University · UCSB [Santa Barbara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/santa-barbara/), [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/)in the agglomeration of [Santa Barbara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/santa-barbara/)

- [Website](https://www.ucsb.edu)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/02t274463)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I154570441)

[**24** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/#works) · [**57** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/authors/) · [**7,888** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/#works) · [**3,426** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/#works)

## People (57)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at University of California, Santa Barbara: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (15)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Dipanjan Das](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dipanjan-das/) — 2019–2022 on 4 papers · employment (ORCID) · 17 papers here · 17,196 citations
- [William Yang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-yang-wang/) — current · 2017–2026 on 81 papers · 14 papers here · 7,217 citations
- [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) — 2018–2021 on 28 papers · 11 papers here · 6,882 citations
- [Yu Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-su/) — 2013–2019 on 17 papers · education (ORCID) · 7 papers here · 4,600 citations
- [William Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-wang/) — 2017–2025 on 146 papers · 4 papers here · 4,254 citations
- [Lei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/) — current · 1998–2025 on 43 papers · 13 papers here · 6,388 citations
- [Zhiyu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyu-chen/) — 2019–2022 on 15 papers · 4 papers here · 1,507 citations
- [Liangming Pan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liangming-pan/) — 2023–2025 on 21 papers · 6 papers here · 1,866 citations
- [Wenhan Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhan-xiong/) — 2017–2021 on 29 papers · 3 papers here · 2,319 citations
- [Xinyi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyi-wang/) — 2021–2024 on 9 papers · 4 papers here · 1,680 citations
- [Elizabeth Belding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elizabeth-belding/) — current · 2006–2026 on 166 papers · 2 papers here · 1,006 citations
- [Shiyang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyang-li/) — 2022–2023 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 1,059 citations
- [Mai ElSherief](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mai-elsherief/) — 2014–2021 on 19 papers · 2 papers here · 1,080 citations
- [Danqing Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danqing-wang/) — 2023 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 1,299 citations
- [Semih Yavuz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/semih-yavuz/) — 2016–2020 on 13 papers · 3 papers here · 962 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (42)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Anna Bethke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anna-bethke/) — 2019–2021 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 1,421 citations
- [Chitta Baral](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chitta-baral/) — 2024 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 2,777 citations
- [Kai-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-wei-chang/) — 2019–2020 on 2 papers · 28 papers here · 14,938 citations
- [Peng Qi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peng-qi/) — 2024 on 2 papers · 6 papers here · 7,845 citations
- [Rui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-zhang/) — 2001–2003 on 3 papers · 12 papers here · 7,475 citations
- [Biao Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/biao-zhang/) — 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 6 papers here · 7,070 citations
- [Hao Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-zhou/) — 2021 on 2 papers · 6 papers here · 7,032 citations
- [Markus Freitag](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/markus-freitag/) — 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 24 papers here · 6,541 citations
- [Kristina Lerman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristina-lerman/) — 1992–1999 on 4 papers · 3 papers here · 5,738 citations
- [Nathan Schneider](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-schneider/) — education (Wikidata) · 40 papers here · 5,367 citations
- [Dahua Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dahua-lin/) — 2024 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 4,663 citations
- [Rushin Shah](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rushin-shah/) — current · 2023 on 1 paper · 2 papers here · 4,537 citations
- [Jieyu Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jieyu-zhao/) — 2019–2020 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 4,221 citations
- [Mu Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mu-li/) — 2017–2018 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 4,195 citations
- [Kaijie Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaijie-zhu/) — current · 2026 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 4,195 citations
- [Yuhao Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuhao-zhang/) — 2024 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 3,749 citations
- [Waleed Ammar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/waleed-ammar/) — 2023 on 2 papers · 9 papers here · 3,741 citations
- [Mo Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mo-yu/) — 2018–2019 on 6 papers · 5 papers here · 3,292 citations
- [Mara Finkelstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mara-finkelstein/) — 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 2,975 citations
- [Yang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-li/) — 2013–2016 on 5 papers · 3 papers here · 2,764 citations
- [Julian McAuley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/julian-mcauley/) — 2022–2023 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 2,613 citations
- [Xiaojun Wan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaojun-wan/) — 2024–2025 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 2,596 citations
- [Shujian Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shujian-huang/) — 2022 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 2,559 citations
- [Abhinav Rastogi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhinav-rastogi/) — 2019 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 2,331 citations
- [Jeffrey Flanigan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-flanigan/) — education (ORCID) · 6 papers here · 2,004 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 57 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/authors/)

## Works in our library (24)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [“Liar, Liar Pants on Fire”: A New Benchmark Dataset for Fake News Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2017-liar-liar-pants-fire-new/) — William Yang Wang · 2017 · 1,801 citations
- [StereoSet: Measuring stereotypical bias in pretrained language models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nadeem-2021-stereoset-measuring-stereotypical-bias-pretrained/) — Moin Nadeem, Anna Bethke, Siva Reddy · 2021 · 1,131 citations
- [Mitigating Gender Bias in Natural Language Processing: Literature Review](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2019-mitigating-gender-bias-natural-language/) — Tony Sun, Andrew Gaut, Shirlyn Tang, et al. · 2019 · 716 citations
- [FinQA: A Dataset of Numerical Reasoning over Financial Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2021-finqa-dataset-numerical-reasoning-over/) — Zhiyu Chen, Wenhu Chen, Charese Smiley, et al. · 2021 · 510 citations
- [HybridQA: A Dataset of Multi-Hop Question Answering over Tabular and Textual Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2020-hybridqa-dataset-multi-hop-question/) — Wenhu Chen, Hanwen Zha, Zhiyu Chen, et al. · 2020 · 376 citations
- [Logic-LM: Empowering Large Language Models with Symbolic Solvers for Faithful Logical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2023-logic-lm-empowering-large-language/) — Liangming Pan, Alon Albalak, Xinyi Wang, et al. · 2023 · 370 citations
- [A Benchmark Dataset for Learning to Intervene in Online Hate Speech](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qian-2019-benchmark-dataset-learning-intervene-online/) — Jing Qian, Anna Bethke, Yinyin Liu, et al. · 2019 · 290 citations
- [DiffCSE: Difference-based Contrastive Learning for Sentence Embeddings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chuang-2022-diffcse-difference-based-contrastive-learning/) — Yung-Sung Chuang, Rumen Dangovski, Hongyin Luo, et al. · 2022 · 269 citations
- [Taskmaster-1: Toward a Realistic and Diverse Dialog Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/byrne-2019-taskmaster-1-realistic-diverse-dialog/) — Bill Byrne, Karthik Krishnamoorthi, Chinnadhurai Sankar, et al. · 2019 · 244 citations
- [Humanity's Last Exam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2025-humanity-s-last-exam/) — Long Phan, Alice Gatti, Ziwen Han, et al. · 2025 · 235 citations
- [TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2024-trustllm-trustworthiness-large-language-models/) — Yue Huang, Lichao Sun, Haoran Wang, et al. · 2024 · 226 citations
- [OpenFlamingo: An Open-Source Framework for Training Large Autoregressive Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/awadalla-2023-openflamingo-open-source-framework-training/) — Anas Awadalla, Irena Gao, Josh Gardner, et al. · 2023 · 209 citations
- [Logical Natural Language Generation from Open-Domain Tables](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2020-logical-natural-language-generation-open/) — Wenhu Chen, Jianshu Chen, Yu Su, et al. · 2020 · 209 citations
- [On the Risk of Misinformation Pollution with Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2023-risk-misinformation-pollution-large-language/) — Yikang Pan, Liangming Pan, Wenhu Chen, et al. · 2023 · 177 citations
- [ConvFinQA: Exploring the Chain of Numerical Reasoning in Conversational Finance Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2022-convfinqa-exploring-chain-numerical-reasoning/) — Zhiyu Chen, Shiyang Li, Charese Smiley, et al. · 2022 · 171 citations
- [On Hallucination and Predictive Uncertainty in Conditional Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiao-2021-hallucination-predictive-uncertainty-conditional-language/) — Yijun Xiao, William Yang Wang · 2021 · 155 citations
- [TheoremQA: A Theorem-driven Question Answering Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-theoremqa-theorem-driven-question-answering/) — Wenhu Chen, Ming Yin, Max Ku, et al. · 2023 · 154 citations
- [Fact-Checking Complex Claims with Program-Guided Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2023-fact-checking-complex-claims-program/) — Liangming Pan, Xiaobao Wu, Xinyuan Lu, et al. · 2023 · 145 citations
- [Faithful Logical Reasoning via Symbolic Chain-of-Thought](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2024-faithful-logical-reasoning-symbolic-chain/) — Jundong Xu, Hao Fei, Liangming Pan, et al. · 2024 · 129 citations
- [INSTRUCTSCORE: Towards Explainable Text Generation Evaluation with Automatic Feedback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2023-instructscore-explainable-text-generation-evaluation/) — Wenda Xu, Danqing Wang, Liangming Pan, et al. · 2023 · 122 citations
- [From Persona to Personalization: A Survey on Role-Playing Language Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-persona-personalization-survey-role-playing/) — Jiangjie Chen, Xintao Wang, Rui Xu, et al. · 2024 · 114 citations
- [Deep Reinforcement Learning for Chinese Zero Pronoun Resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yin-2018-deep-reinforcement-learning-chinese-zero/) — Qingyu Yin, Yu Zhang, Wei-Nan Zhang, et al. · 2018 · 67 citations
- [Zero Pronoun Resolution with Attention-based Neural Network](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yin-2018-zero-pronoun-resolution-attention-based/) — Qingyu Yin, Yu Zhang, Weinan Zhang, et al. · 2018 · 44 citations
- [How Is LLM Reasoning Distracted by Irrelevant Context? An Analysis Using a Controlled Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2025-llm-reasoning-distracted-irrelevant-context/) — Minglai Yang, Ethan Huang, Liang Zhang, et al. · 2025 · 24 citations

## Topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

[Reasoning (6)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining (5)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Bias, fairness & safety (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Question answering (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Text generation (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Coreference resolution (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Dialogue systems (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Sentiment & emotion (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Vision & language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

## Fields

[Natural language processing (14)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) · [Mathematics & statistics (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Linguistics & languages (3)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) · [AI & machine learning (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/ai/)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[Stanford University 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) [Carnegie Mellon University 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [Massachusetts Institute of Technology 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) [University of California, Los Angeles 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) [National University of Singapore 4](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) [Google 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [University of Cambridge 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) [Columbia University 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) [University of Waterloo 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) [Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) [University of California, Berkeley 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) [University of Washington 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/)

## Parent and units

**Part of** University of California System

**Units** California NanoSystems Institute Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis

From the Research Organization Registry (ROR); those with a page here are linked.

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at University of California, Santa Barbara; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.