---
title: Shubham Agarwal
type: entity
tags: [researcher, llm, retrieval-augmented-generation, literature-review]
affiliation: ServiceNow Research; Mila – Quebec AI Institute; HEC Montréal
sources: ["[[sources/2024-agarwal-litllms-are-we-there-yet]]"]
created: 2026-04-20
updated: 2026-04-20
---

# Shubham Agarwal

Researcher at **ServiceNow Research / Mila / HEC Montréal**. Co-lead of the LitLLM project on LLM-based literature-review pipelines.

## Contributions in this wiki
- [[sources/2024-agarwal-litllms-are-we-there-yet]] — TMLR 2024: *LitLLMs, LLMs for Literature Review: Are we there yet?* Two-step retrieval + plan-then-generate pipeline; reduces hallucinated references 18–26%.

## Role
Representative of the retrieval-augmented-generation wing of literature-review automation. Works alongside Gaurav Sahu, Abhay Puri, Laurent Charlin and Christopher Pal.