About

I’m a Ph.D. Student @ Harvard working with Prof. Elena Glassman at Glassman Lab. I work in the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Engineering.

Prior to this, I was a Master’s Student @ UCSD, where I worked with Prof. Philip Guo at the UCSD Design Lab. I was also fortunate to work in Microsoft Research India as a Research Fellow for two years, where I worked on a multitude of projects related to Information retrieval, developer tools, and programming accessibility.

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Publications

• Imagining a Future of Designing with AI: Dynamic Grounding, Constructive Negotiation, and Sustainable Motivation
  DIS 2024
  Priyan Vaithilingam, Ian Arawjo, Elena L Glassman
  [arxiv] | [pdf]

• DynaVis: Dynamically Synthesized UI Widgets for Visualization Editing
  🏆Best Paper Award CHI 2024
  Priyan Vaithilingam, Elena L Glassman, Jeevana Priya Inala, Chenglong Wang
  [arxiv] | [pdf]

• ChainForge: A Visual Toolkit for Prompt Engineering and LLM Hypothesis Testing
  🎖️Honorable Mention Award CHI 2024
  Ian Arawjo, Chelse Swoopes, Priyan Vaithilingam, Elena L Glassman, Martin Wattenberg
  [arxiv] | [pdf]

• Amortizing Pragmatic Program Synthesis with Rankings
  ICML 2024
  Yewen Pu, Saujas Vaduguru, Priyan Vaithilingam, Elena L Glassman, Daniel Fried
  [arxiv] | [pdf]

• Towards More Effective AI-Assisted Programming: A Systematic Design Exploration to Improve Visual Studio IntelliCode’s User Experience
  ICSE SEIP 2023
  Priyan Vaithilingam, Elena L Glassman, Peter Groenwegen, Sumit Gulwani, Austin Z. Henley, Rohan Malpani, David Pugh, Arjun Radhakrishna, Gustavo Soares, Joey Wang, Aaron Yim
  [acm] | [pdf]

• Expectation vs. Experience: Evaluating the Usability of Code Generation Tools Powered by Large Language Models
  CHI LBW 2022
  Priyan Vaithilingam, Tianyi Zhang, Elena L Glassman
  [acm] | [pdf]

• Assuage: Assembly Synthesis Using A Guided Exploration
  UIST 2021
  Jingmei Hu, Priyan Vaithilingam, Stephen Chong, Margo Seltzer, Elena L Glassman
  [acm] | [pdf]

• Interpretable Program Synthesis
  CHI 2021
  Tianyi Zhang, Zhiyang Chen, Yuanli Zhu, Priyan Vaithilingam, Xinyu Wang, Elena L Glassman
  [acm] | [pdf]

• Papercode: Generating Paper-Based User Interfaces for Code Review, Annotation, and Teaching.
  UIST 2020 Poster
  Priyan Vaithilingam, Julia M. Markel, Philip J. Guo.
  [acm] | [paper pdf] | [poster pdf]

• Bespoke: Interactively Synthesizing Custom GUIs from Command-Line Applications By Demonstration.
  UIST 2019
  Priyan Vaithilingam, Philip J. Guo.
  [acm] | [pdf]

• CodeTalk: Improving Programming Environment Accessibility for Visually Impaired Developers
  🎖️Honorable Mention Award CHI 2018
  Venkatesh Potluri, Priyan Vaithilingam, Suresh Parthasarathy, Vidhya Reddy, Manohar Swaminathan, Gopal Srinivasa
  [acm] | [pdf]

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Relevant Work Experience

• Research Intern, Microsoft Research
  MSR VIDA
  May 2024 - Present, Redmond USA

• Research Intern, Microsoft Research
  MSR VIDA
  May 2023 - Aug 2023, Redmond USA

• Research Intern, Microsoft Research
  MICROSOFT PROSE
  Sep 2021 - Aug 2022, Remote

• Research Fellow, Microsoft Research India
  Applied Sciences and Engineering
  Mar 2016 - Jul 2018, Bengaluru India

• Software Engineer, Microsoft India
  MS IDC
  Jun 2015 - Mar 2016, Hyderabad India

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Contact

Work Email: [email protected]
Personal Email: [email protected]

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