Scholar
Kanishka Misra
Google Scholar ID: -c6SAOMAAAAJ
Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,316
H-index
14
i10-index
16
Publications
20
Co-authors
18
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Best Paper Award at EACL 2023 for 'COMPS: Conceptual Minimal Pair Sentences...'
- Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024 for 'Language Models Learn Rare Phenomena from Less Rare Phenomena...'
- Publications at ACL 2023, EMNLP 2024, NAACL 2025, and arXiv preprints
- Author of the Python library 'minicons' for large-scale behavioral analysis of transformer models
- Co-organized the UChicago/TTIC NLP Seminar
Background
- Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UT Austin
- Harrington Faculty Fellow for 2025–26
- Member of the Computational Linguistics Research Group and broader NLP community at UT Austin
- Holds a courtesy appointment at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC)
- Research lies at the intersection of Cognitive Science, Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence
- Focuses on statistical mechanisms underlying language acquisition and generalization
- Uses AI models as simulated learners to test and generate hypotheses about language learning
- Develops methods to evaluate AI models from the perspective of semantic cognition
