2026 Douwe Kiela: Computer Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Rising Stars	57	188	188	24	24	115	17229
Computer Science	57	3773	3668	1801	1737	113	16549

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Rising Stars Award

Overview

Douwe Kiela is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and has made contributions primarily in the field of Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence.

The researcher's work spans several subfields, including:

Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Information Systems
Control and Systems Engineering
Cognitive Neuroscience

The main topics covered in their research include:

Topic Modeling
Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning
Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
Reinforcement Learning in Robotics

Douwe Kiela has published extensively in a variety of venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Science

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Douwe Kiela are:

Contextual Personal Intelligence: A New Paradigm for AI That Evolves With You (2025), arXiv (Cornell University)
FLAVA: A Foundational Language And Vision Alignment Model (2022), 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
True Few-Shot Learning with Language Models (2021), arXiv (Cornell University)
Masked Language Modeling and the Distributional Hypothesis: Order Word Matters Pre-training for Little (2021), Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
Winoground: Probing Vision and Language Models for Visio-Linguistic Compositionality (2022), 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Frequent collaborators include:

Tristan Thrush
Adina Williams
Robin Jia
Amanpreet Singh
Joëlle Pineau

Best Publications

Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks

Patrick S. H. Lewis;Ethan Perez;Aleksandra Piktus;Fabio Petroni

2921
Citations
Supervised learning of universal sentence representations from natural language inference data

Alexis Conneau;Douwe Kiela;Holger Schwenk;Loïc Barrault

2211
Citations
Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?

Saizheng Zhang;Emily Dinan;Jack Urbanek;Arthur Szlam

1313
Citations
Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations

Maximillian Nickel;Douwe Kiela

706
Citations
Adversarial NLI: A New Benchmark for Natural Language Understanding

Yixin Nie;Adina Williams;Emily Dinan;Mohit Bansal

689
Citations
SentEval: An Evaluation Toolkit for Universal Sentence Representations

Alexis Conneau;Douwe Kiela

488
Citations
The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2)

Emily Dinan;Varvara Logacheva;Valentin Malykh;Alexander H. Miller

475
Citations
Retrieval Augmentation Reduces Hallucination in Conversation

Kurt Shuster;Spencer Poff;Moya Chen;Douwe Kiela

407
Citations
Learning Image Embeddings using Convolutional Neural Networks for Improved Multi-Modal Semantics

Douwe Kiela;Léon Bottou

274
Citations
What makes a good conversation? How controllable attributes affect human judgments

Abigail See;Stephen Roller;Douwe Kiela;Jason Weston

269
Citations
Black Holes and White Rabbits: Metaphor Identification with Visual Features

Ekaterina Shutova;Douwe Kiela;Jean Maillard

237
Citations
A Systematic Study of Semantic Vector Space Model Parameters

Douwe Kiela;Stephen Clark

225
Citations
True Few-Shot Learning with Language Models

Ethan Perez;Douwe Kiela;Kyunghyun Cho

211
Citations
Dynabench: Rethinking Benchmarking in NLP.

Douwe Kiela;Max Bartolo;Yixin Nie;Divyansh Kaushik

203
Citations
Masked Language Modeling and the Distributional Hypothesis: Order Word Matters Pre-training for Little

Koustuv Sinha;Robin Jia;Dieuwke Hupkes;Joelle Pineau

192
Citations
Poincar'e Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations

Maximilian Nickel;Douwe Kiela

189
Citations
The Hateful Memes Challenge: Detecting Hate Speech in Multimodal Memes

Douwe Kiela;Hamed Firooz;Aravind Mohan;Vedanuj Goswami

188
Citations
Supervised Multimodal Bitransformers for Classifying Images and Text

Douwe Kiela;Suvrat Bhooshan;Hamed Firooz;Ethan Perez

184
Citations
Specializing Word Embeddings for Similarity or Relatedness

Douwe Kiela;Felix Hill;Stephen Clark

166
Citations
Queens are Powerful too: Mitigating Gender Bias in Dialogue Generation

Emily Dinan;Angela Fan;Adina Williams;Jack Urbanek

164
Citations
Learning from the Worst: Dynamically Generated Datasets to Improve Online Hate Detection

Bertie Vidgen;Tristan Thrush;Zeerak Waseem;Douwe Kiela

115
Citations
Hyperbolic Graph Neural Networks

Qi Liu;Maximilian Nickel;Douwe Kiela

96
Citations
Answering Complex Open-Domain Questions with Multi-Hop Dense Retrieval

Wenhan Xiong;Xiang Lorraine Li;Srini Iyer;Jingfei Du

13
Citations
Supervised Multimodal Bitransformers for Classifying Images and Text.

Douwe Kiela;Suvrat Bhooshan;Hamed Firooz;Davide Testuggine

10
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason Weston Facebook (United States)

Stephen Clark Cambridge Quantum Computing

Arthur Szlam DeepMind (United Kingdom)

Joelle Pineau McGill University

Sebastian Riedel University College London

Mohit Bansal University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Anna Korhonen University of Cambridge

Wen-tau Yih Facebook (United States)

Felix Hill Google (United States)

Kyunghyun Cho New York University

External Links

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