Sheshansh Agrawal
Director of Research at Contextual AI; co-author of the open Contextual AI Reranker v2 models
- Director of Research, Contextual AI41
Sheshansh Agrawal is Director of Research at Contextual AI, the title given on the company's blog posts from August 2025 to March 2026. Agrawal is the second-listed author, after George Halal, of Contextual AI Reranker v2, an open-weight family of multilingual instruction-following rerankers released in August 2025, and co-authored the company's posts on agentic retrieval and faster search agents.1234
Research at Contextual AI
Agrawal is credited as Director of Research on Contextual AI's August 2025 post open-sourcing Reranker v2, written with George Halal, which released instruction-following multilingual rerankers in 1B, 2B and 6B sizes along with evaluation datasets. The 2B model card's citation lists Halal and Agrawal as authors.12
Agrawal also co-authored the company's November 2025 post on an agentic alternative to GraphRAG and its March 2026 post on making search agents faster and more accurate.34
Work
Contextual AI Reranker v2 2BOpen weights
Co-author, with George Halal, of Contextual AI Reranker v2 as credited in the model card's citation and the release post.21
Contextual AI RerankerOpen weights
Co-wrote the August 2025 post open-sourcing the Reranker v2 family in 1B, 2B and 6B sizes with instruction-following evaluation datasets.1
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