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About me
I am a PhD student from Software Engineering at University of California, Irvine and located at Irvine, CA currently. Individuals and groups often struggle with programming, collaboration, learning and using software or systems effectively and equitably. Observing developers of varying skill levels struggle to navigate unfamiliar codebases motivates my passion for enhancing the developer experience through non-invasive, cost-effective solutions.
My previous research spans human-computer interaction, software engineering, and social computing, with specific focus areas including recommender systems, agentic systems, human-AI communication patterns, and tool building. I designed and conducted an eye-tracking study integrated with a VSCode-based platform to evaluate autocomplete features, finding they improve information acquisition but do not necessarily boost productivity, published at FSE 2024. I identified four primary categories of human-AI collaboration using Cursor rules as a proxy, published at MSR 2026. Additionally, I found LLM chatbots made experienced programmers feel confused, published at PLATEAU 2025.
