🧑‍🔬 David Evans

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of VirginiaCharlottesville · United States2001–2026 · 108 papersEmployment · Computer Sciencecurrent🎓Cardiff UniversityCardiff · United Kingdom1998–2025 · 48 papers🎓University of WalesCardiff · United Kingdom1980–2018 · 39 papers🎓University of CambridgeCambridge · United Kingdom2007–2012 · 16 papers🎓Swansea UniversitySwansea · United Kingdom1989–1998 · 15 papers🎓University of WarwickCoventry · United Kingdom1980–1990 · 14 papers🎓University of DerbyDerby · United Kingdom2012–2016 · 6 papers🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States1994–2003 · 6 papers🔬Dublin Institute For Advanced StudiesDublin · Ireland1976–1977 · 6 papers🎓University of WaterlooWaterloo · Canada1996–2005 · 5 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 16 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Do Membership Inference Attacks Work on Large Language Models? (2024 · 87 citations)
   This paper asks whether standard membership inference attacks (MIAs) can tell if a given text was in an LLM's pre-training data.
2. Inferring Events from Time Series using Language Models (2026 · 1 citation)
   The paper asks whether large language models can work backwards from a numeric time series to the real-world events that likely produced it.

All works

5 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. Advances and Open Problems in Federated Learning ↗Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning · no summary yetPeter Kairouz et al.2020 · 6,432 citations
2. Do Membership Inference Attacks Work on Large Language Models?arXiv:2402.07841Michael Duan, Anshuman Suri, Niloofar Mireshghallah, et al.2024 · 87 citations
3. Finding Friends and Flipping Frenemies: Automatic Paraphrase Dataset Augmentation Using Graph Theory ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020 · no summary yetHannah Chen, Yangfeng Ji, David Evans2020 · 17 citations
4. Pointwise Paraphrase Appraisal is Potentially Problematic ↗Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop · no summary yetHannah Chen, Yangfeng Ji, David Evans2020 · 10 citations
5. Inferring Events from Time Series using Language ModelsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Mingtian Tan, Mike A Merrill, Zachary Gottesman, et al.2026 · 1 citation

🤝 Co-authors here

10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Hannaneh Hajishirzi
• Luke Zettlemoyer
• Niloofar Mireshghallah
• Sewon Min
• Thomas Hartvigsen
• Tim Althoff
• Weijia Shi
• Yejin Choi
• Yulia Tsvetkov
• Zachary Gottesman

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): ACL 2026
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2020
• Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning
• Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 190 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 25 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 31 October 2026

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