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News

July 2023

  • Two years at Apple!

January 2023

  • Happy New Year!

November 2022

  • I’ve volunteered to help with the hci.social Mastodon instance. Create an account and come join us!

September 2022

July 2022

  • It’s been one year at Apple!

May 2022

March 2022

January 2022

December 2021

  • Executed periodic garbage collection of Twitter tweets. Here’s to a better 2022!

November 2021

  • Attended the PLATEAU workshop on the intersection of HCI and PL at Carnegie Mellon University, and the working group on a platform for programming user studies. Notably, this was my first in-person trip since COVID-19.

October 2021

August 2021

July 2021

  • I have joined Apple (AI/ML) as a Research Scientist!
  • Taking most of this month off to reset and recover. 🌴

June 2021

  • June 23rd is my last day at Microsoft 😭. It’s been a ride.
  • Promoted to Senior Researcher (L64)!

May 2021

April 2021

  • Two papers submitted to UIST!

March 2021

  • Presented in DevDiv Engineering Area Review, focus on future investments in Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code.
  • Presented on Influence without Authority at PROSE weekly reading group.
  • Happy Birthday! πŸŽ‚

February 2021

  • PROSE team’s feature, IntelliCode Suggestions in Competion List, is now available in Visual Studio 16.9.
  • Our paper, “Here We Go Again: Why Is It Difficult for Developers to Learn Another Programming Language?” (ICSE 2020) is in the list of ACM SIGSOFT Research Highlights (see the tweet)!
  • We’ve released date/time formatting by example to IntelliCode Insiders! Also take a look at our tweet about it. Looking forward to adding support for additional libraries, including dayjs and luxon. πŸŽ‰
  • Submitted one paper to FSE!
  • Submitted one article to CACM!

January 2021

  • Happy New Year!

December 2020

November 2020

October 2020

  • Conducted our workshop, “Lights! Camera! Action! Effective storytelling through video demos, screencasts, and more”, for Learning Day in DevDiv (Career and Leadership Track, with Mario Juarez of StoryCo).
  • Invited to the VL/HCC 2021 Organizing Committee as Publicity Chair.
  • What is the role of microstudies in software enginering research?

September 2020

  • Three papers submitted to CHI!
  • Presented in DevDiv Engineering Area Review, focus on Computer Science education.

August 2020

July 2020

May 2020

April 2020

March 2020

  • Invited to the ICPC Program Committee.
  • Invited to the ICPC Industry Track Program Committee.
  • Invited to the VL/HCC Program Committee.

January 2020

December 2019

August 2017

  • Joined PROSE team at Microsoft, with research focus on PL+HCI.