Priyan Vaithilingam | Academic Homepage

priyan@about

I am a Research Scientist in the AI/ML group at Apple, working on intelligent user interfaces. I received my Ph.D. from Harvard, where I was advised by Prof. Elena Glassman at the Variation Lab. My research lies in the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, and Software Engineering.

Prior to this, I was a Master's Student at 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 projects related to information retrieval, developer tools, and programming accessibility.

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priyan@publications

The Way We Notice, That's What Really Matters: Instantiating UI Components with Distinguishing Variations
[chi/2026]
Priyan Vaithilingam, Alan Leung, Jeffrey Nichols, Titus Barik
[acm] | [pdf] | [Apple]

Semantic Commit: Helping Users Update Intent Specifications for AI Memory at Scale
[uist/2025]
Priyan Vaithilingam, Munyeong Kim, Frida-Cecilia Acosta-Parenteau, Daniel Lee, Amine Mhedhbi, Elena L. Glassman, Ian Arawjo
[acm] | [pdf]

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

DynaVis: Dynamically Synthesized UI Widgets for Visualization Editing
BEST PAPER [chi/2024]
Priyan Vaithilingam, Elena L Glassman, Jeevana Priya Inala, Chenglong Wang
[acm] | [pdf]

ChainForge: A Visual Toolkit for Prompt Engineering and LLM Hypothesis Testing
HONORABLE MENTION [chi/2024]
Ian Arawjo, Chelse Swoopes, Priyan Vaithilingam, Elena L Glassman, Martin Wattenberg
[acm] | [pdf]

Amortizing Pragmatic Program Synthesis with Rankings
[icml/2024]
Yewen Pu, Saujas Vaduguru, Priyan Vaithilingam, Elena L Glassman, Daniel Fried
[acm] | [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-poster/2020]
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 [chi/2018]
Venkatesh Potluri, Priyan Vaithilingam, Suresh Parthasarathy, Vidhya Reddy, Manohar Swaminathan, Gopal Srinivasa
[acm] | [pdf]

priyan@experience

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ML Research Scientist, Apple

Apple AIML · Apr 2025 - Present, Seattle USA
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Research Intern, Microsoft Research

MSR VIDA · May 2024 - Aug 2024, Redmond USA
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Research Intern, Microsoft Research

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

Microsoft PROSE · Sep 2021 - Aug 2022, Remote
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Research Fellow, Microsoft Research India

Applied Sciences and Engineering · Mar 2016 - Jul 2018, Bengaluru India
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Software Engineer, Microsoft India

MS IDC · Jun 2015 - Mar 2016, Hyderabad India

priyan@contact

Personal Email: priyanmuthu at gmail dot com