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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 programmers struggle to start with new codebases drives my passion for improving the programming environment. This motivates my pursuit of a Ph.D. in software engineering, HCI, and computer supported collaboration work.
My previous research focuses on human-computer interaction, software engineering, and social computing. 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, and published the results at FSE 2024. I collaborated with others on a large-scale experiment to explore how LLM-driven conversational cues influence idea generation, published at CI 2025. Additionally, I found LLM chatbots made experienced programmers feel confused, accepted at PLATEAU 2025.
