{"id":663303,"date":"2020-05-29T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T21:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/?post_type=msr-group&#038;p=663303"},"modified":"2025-11-29T19:16:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T03:16:31","slug":"prose","status":"publish","type":"msr-group","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/prose\/","title":{"rendered":"PROSE"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"mb-3 moray-highlight\">\n\t<div class=\"card-img-overlay mx-lg-0\">\n\t\t<div class=\"card-background  has-background- card-background--full-bleed\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/PROSE_group_header2_07_2020_1920x720.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"PROSE group header - blue background\" style=\"\" 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-->\n\t\t\t<div class=\"container d-flex mt-md-n5 my-lg-5 \">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Card wrapper -->\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"w-100 w-lg-col-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<!-- Card -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card material-md-card py-5 px-md-5\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"card-body \">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading h2\" id=\"prose\">PROSE<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>AI-Assisted Programming<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The PROSE research and engineering team, led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/people\/sumitg\/\">Sumit Gulwani<\/a>, works on groundbreaking AI projects, including model training and end-to-end experiences, for a variety of applications such as IDEs and Spreadsheets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v4J940medno?si=m5cTqwUSnVepPRUX\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en\/microsoft-365\/excel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Microsoft Excel<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/visualstudio.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Visual Studio<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/services\/data-factory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azure Data Factory<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql\/azure-data-studio\/download-azure-data-studio?view=sql-server-ver15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azure Data Studio<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/azure-monitor\/overview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Azure Monitor<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/powerapps.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power Apps<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/powerbi.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PowerBI<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/powerquery.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power Query<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/powershell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Powershell<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql\/dma\/dma-overview?view=sql-server-ver15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Data Migration Assistant<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql\/ssma\/sql-server-migration-assistant?view=sql-server-ver15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SQL Server Migration Assistant<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/sql\/ssms\/download-sql-server-management-studio-ssms?view=sql-server-ver15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SQL Server Management Studio<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"flash-fill-excel\">Flash Fill (Excel)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Perhaps the closest thing to magic Excel users will ever see in a workbook is Flash Fill.<\/em><br>\u2014 Susan Harkins, TechRepublic, <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.techrepublic.com\/blog\/10-things\/10-best-new-features-in-excel-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10 best new features in Excel 2013<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>This is&nbsp;one of the main reason I purchased Office rather than sticking with free programs, only to find out that it is not supported on Mac versions of Excel. Absolutely unbelievable and disappointing.<\/em> (What customers say when PROSE technology is taken away from them on missing Flash Fill feature in Excel for MAC)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Excel without flash fill will be in shambles.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>I thought Excel for Mac has the same functionalities as the Windows version. Apparently not. Disappointed in Microsoft!!!&nbsp;We want flash fill!!<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>You NEED to&nbsp;Add Flash Fill for Mac ASAP or&nbsp;I&nbsp;will be forced to stop using Microsoft Services completely. This is using to much of my time.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Please add this for Mac! the company just gave us Macs & now I&#8217;m&nbsp;mi\u200b\u200bss\u200bin\u200bg one of the best features in Excel&nbsp;\ud83d\ude41<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>PLEASE add the flash fill feature for MAC! It is an amazing tool,&nbsp;I can&#8217;t believe you don&#8217;t already feature it on your Mac versions<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Flash Fill is an extremely powerful and useful feature.&nbsp;Porting this to the Mac would greatly expand it&#8217;s usefulness, and lock in Excel as a key tool for anyone analyzing data, regardless of what OS they are running.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"table-extraction-from-text-files\">Table Extraction from Text Files<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/azure-monitor\/platform\/custom-fields\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Custom Fields (Azure Log Analytics)\u200b<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>I&#8217;ve been blown away by what customers are able to do with it. Once customer had a requirement where they needed to use alerts in OMS via custom fields over SCOM data to extract AD information. The information was complicated and laid out in way where extraction via Regex would have been difficult and the customer did not want to learn Regex. Custom fields enabled them to extract the data easily so they could build alerts and dashboards based on these new fields.<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Custom fields is very useful and is used in all my demos. Once I dug into it I found so many use cases! All of our verbose alert descriptions are great now because now I can pull the data out easily and put it into visualizations. The accuracy of the field extractions has improved so much since the preview I haven&#8217;t had any issues in a long time.<\/em> \u2014 Shawn Tierney, MVP, Infront Consulting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/powershell\/convertfrom-string-example-based-text-parsing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ConvertFrom-String (PowerShell)<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>PowerShell v5 ConvertFrom-String query by example templates are brilliant<\/em> <br>\u2014 Doug Finke, PowerShell MVP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Just&#8230; amazing. The number of transformations it can run through for this is incredible. Can&#8217;t wait to do a video on this new feature.<\/em><br>\u2014 Reid Havens, Power BI&nbsp;MVP<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Not certain how you managed to get me excited about TEXT files but you did it!<\/em><br>\u2014 Charles Sterling<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blog posts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.powershellmagazine.com\/2014\/09\/09\/using-the-convertfrom-string-cmdlet-to-parse-structured-text\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Using the ConvertFrom-String cmdlet to parse structured text<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/lazywinadmin.com\/2014\/09\/powershell-playing-with-new-convertfrom.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PowerShell &#8211; Playing with the new ConvertFrom-String cmdlet<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.happysysadm.com\/2014\/11\/first-look-at-convertfrom-string-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">First look at ConvertFrom-String in Powershell v5\u200b<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"http:\/\/serverfixes.com\/convertfrom-string\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Using the \u2018Convertfrom-String&#8217; command in PowerShell 5.0\u200b<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/prose-blog-extraction-text-may20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Import Text by Examples (Power Query)\u200b<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"table-extraction-from-webpages-powerquery\">Table Extraction from WebPages (PowerQuery)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Voted top 5 out of 150 new features in Power Query in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>For anyone that has futilely struggled expanding their way through the DOM of a web page in Query Editor, &#8220;Web by Example&#8221; is the best thing since sliced virtual network architectures over 5G.<\/em><br>\u2014 Greg Deckler\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>Indeed is a great feature. I&#8217;ve been doing it with Python and beautifulsoup. having that feature in PowerBI is great! \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>I got so excited about this the day of release! I&#8217;ve managed to get so many obscure things working!<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>That is absolutely fantastic. I use the web connector a lot, it is one of my favorite connectors<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>A very exciting improvement to getting data from the web<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>This update is really cool.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Youtube videos created by users<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RiRVxkWDy_I\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Improved PDF and Web connector &#8211; Power BI Desktop update April 2019<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qztZ1hLo_Gw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power BI &#8211; How to Get Data from a Web Page<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hn7opyEGtIE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How To Scrape Data From Any Website In Seconds With Power BI<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u200b<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JHDYi4r5NtI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Easier than ever to get data from the web into Power BI &#8211; PW518<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"table-extraction-from-pdf-powerquery\">Table Extraction from PDF (PowerQuery)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83c\udfc6 Top requested <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-bi\/connect-data\/desktop-connect-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feature<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> on&nbsp;<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/ideas.powerbi.com\/forums\/265200-power-bi-ideas\/suggestions\/6973371-tables-in-pdf-files\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Power BI Ideas<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> (3000+ votes)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>PowerBIs built in data from PDF function. It works very well is has been reliable throughout my testing.<\/em><br>\u2014 dantm on Reddit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>YouTube videos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FibLpYf7p3A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Extract Data from PDF Files with Power Query in Power BI<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CJ8YA1LjN_k\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Importing PDF Data Into Power BI<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u200b<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:10px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bluepencil-intellicode-suggestions-in-visual-studio\">BluePencil (IntelliCode Suggestions in Visual Studio)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>Saw IntelliCode for Visual Studio pop in for the first time today. Saved me several hours of work. Very nice.<br><\/em>\u2014 Evil Blond Dad (@sonofalink) <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sonofalink\/status\/1393244003999563786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2021<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>As for what I love is the encouragement it gives to actually start a refactor due to the amount of work it can save me.<br><\/em>\u2014 Mordechai Zuber (@mordzuber) <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mordzuber\/status\/1392922187330371586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 13, 2021<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>I&#8217;m in the middle of changing a load of Memory<byte> and Span<byte> to their ReadOnly variant, and the new <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VisualStudio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@VisualStudio<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a> intellicode feature knows what I&#8217;m doing and starts suggesting the change to ReadOnly in the right places, which is pretty wild.<br><\/em>\u2014 Alistair Evans (@evocationist) <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/evocationist\/status\/1381920850228736001?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 13, 2021<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>See more at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/modeless-program-synthesis\/#!customer-quotes\">Blue-Pencil: customer quotes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Blog posts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/repeated-edits-intellicode-suggestions-completion-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frictionless repeated edits: IntelliCode suggestions in completion list<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/making-repeated-edits-easier-with-intellicode-suggestions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Making repeated edits easier with IntelliCode suggestions\u200b\u200b<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/refactoring-made-easy-with-intellicode\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Refactoring made easy with IntelliCode!\u200b\u200b<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/ai-assisted-developer-tools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Re-imagining developer productivity with AI-assisted tools<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>DSLs<\/strong>: Given a domain-specific language (DSL) and input-output examples for the desired program&#8217;s behavior, PROSE synthesizes a ranked set of DSL programs that are consistent with the examples.\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Data.Diff<\/strong>: Find differences in distribution of numeric, string, and categorical data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Detection<\/strong>: Libraries for detecting data, encoding and file types.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Extraction.Json<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/prose-json-extraction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Extraction.Json<\/a> automatically extracts tabular data from Json files. It supports extracting Newline Delimited Json and truncated Json.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Extraction.Pdf<\/strong>: Extract tabular data from PDFs.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Extraction.Spreadsheets<\/strong>: Extract tabular data from Excel files.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Extraction.Text<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/prose-text-extraction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Extraction.Text<\/a> extracts data from semi-structured text files using examples. The Usage page and the Sample project illustrate the API usage.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Extraction.Web<\/strong>: Extract tabular data from webpages.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Matching.Text<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/prose-pattern-inspector\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Matching.Text<\/a> automatically identifies different formats and patterns in string data.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Read.FlatFile<\/strong>: Automatically infer properties of CSV and fixed-width files (skipped lines, delimiters, etc.) to parse the files.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Split.Text<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/prose-text-splitting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Split.Text<\/a> is a system for splitting data in plain text format, where there may be multiple fields that need to be separated into different columns.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Transformation.Json<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/prose-json-transformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Transformation.Json<\/a> transforms the structure of Json using input\/output examples.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Transformation.Text<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/prose-text-transformation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Transformation.Text<\/a> is a system that performs string transformations using examples allowing for many tasks involving strings to be performed automatically.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Transformation.Tree<\/strong>: Transform ASTs using examples.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nuget.org\/packages\/Microsoft.ProgramSynthesis \/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>NuGet package<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: NuGet package for automatically synthesizing programs from examples.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/prose\/tree\/main\/dsl-samples\/tutorial\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tutorial<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: A step-by-step walk-through of the process of building a DSL in PROSE and enabling program synthesis for it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/prose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>API and samples<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: If you want to apply an existing PROSE DSL, check out its documentation and our <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/prose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">samples<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/prose\/tree\/main\/release-notes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Release notes<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: Read the release notes for the SDK.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/prose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>GitHub<\/strong><span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>: PROSE is not open source, but we do publish on GitHub sample code using the SDK. For questions, <a href=\"mailto:prose-contact@microsoft.com\">email us<\/a> or <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/Microsoft\/prose\/issues\/new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">open an issue on GitHub<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/prose-framework\/#!faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>FAQ<\/strong><\/a>: Get answers to frequently asked questions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\t<div data-wp-context='{\"items\":[]}' data-wp-interactive=\"msr\/accordion\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn-group align-items-center mb-g float-sm-right\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-aN=\"accordion-collapse-controls\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-link m-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-cN=\"Expand all\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-controls=\"state.ariaControls\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.ariaExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--disabled=\"state.isAllExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--inactive=\"state.isAllExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onExpandAll\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand all\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span aria-hidden=\"true\"> | <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-link m-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-cN=\"Collapse all\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-controls=\"state.ariaControls\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.ariaExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--disabled=\"state.isAllCollapsed\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--inactive=\"state.isAllCollapsed\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onCollapseAll\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCollapse all\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"msr-accordion\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-2\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-2\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-1\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2024\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-1\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-2\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Celeste Barnaby<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1058946 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-300x300.png\" alt=\",\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a fourth-year PhD student in Computer Science at UT Austin. My research involves applying neuro-symbolic program synthesis techniques to image search\/editing.\u202f Prior to grad school, I worked on the Big Code team at Facebook as a software engineer. Outside of work, I love playing guitar, hiking, and crossword puzzles. This is my first time in the Puget Sound area so please recommend me places to explore!\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Sahil Bhatia<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1058952 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sahil-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"a man sitting at a table with a cup of coffee\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sahil-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sahil-136x180.jpg 136w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sahil.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Sahil Bhatia. I am a 4th\u202fyear PhD student (read as first year student with 4 years of experience) at UC Berkeley. I am interested\u202fin the intersection of machine learning and program synthesis. In particular, I work on building tools for automatically translating code to DSLs. Outside work I like to play badminton, tennis and video\u202fgames. I also enjoy exploring new cafes for coffee (if anyone has recommendations, please\u202flet me know. I heard coffee is great here.)\u202f\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Param Biyani<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059111 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Param's intro pic\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-2048x1150.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-1066x600.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-655x368.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-scaled-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-scaled-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Param Biyani and I am excited to contribute to the PROSE team. I graduated from BITS Goa and am deeply passionate about all research which is highly deployable. I wish to find out how to make machines more capable of coherent cognition, as contemporary LLMs are often brittle in domain and compositional generalization. I have worked on projects ranging from Speech and Audio processing to regularization techniques for data with high missingness. I am particularly enthusiastic about delving into topics related to human interactions with LLMs. My first project will involve developing evaluation metrics for the Copilot debugger. In addition to my professional interests, I have recently taken up regular gymming and I love to watch\/read anime\/manga. I look forward to working with the team, and I appreciate your warm welcome and support.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Avik Dutta<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059066 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"a man wearing a suit and tie\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<p class=\"xmsonormal\">I was born and brought up in a town named Jamshedpur, in the state of Jharkhand, India. I completed my schooling in the same town, after which I shifted to Kharagpur, West Bengal, to pursue my undergraduate degree in IIT Kharagpur. Being always inclined towards AI and its growth in recent years, I decided to build my career in AI\/ML, most specifically in the background of NLP and LLMs. I completed a minor in Computer Science and a micro specialization in Artificial Intelligence, along with my major degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. I have been part of many research-based projects and the two best things to write home about are the papers which I co-authored with a few PhD students from my Institute. Aside from ML, I was also actively involved in product development in the form of building android games. My two famous games which made into the play store are \u201cRicksy Run\u201d and \u201cBubble Meow\u2019t\u201d. Do take some time out to try these games and let me know your feedback. I was also in works with developing a game where you can make the character move and jump using sounds made by the user, eg. a simple clap of hands. I really enjoy brainstorming new ideas, and most importantly bringing those ideas to reality, and that is what makes PROSE the best environment for me to grow. Aside from academics, I love to read crime thrillers and sci-fi novels. I also love watching Anime and American sitcoms, my favorite being \u201cThe Office US\u201d and \u201cThe Big Bang Theory\u201d, both of which I have watched over 20 times. I am quite a nature lover and like to go on treks and long walks amidst forests and hills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"xmsonormal\">\t<\/div>\n\t<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Krishna Kariya<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059117 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-300x225.png\" alt=\"a woman sitting on top of a mountain\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-240x180.png 240w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Krishna Kariya. I recently joined PROSE team as a research fellow. Earlier, I worked as software engineer with Azure Functions team under DevDiv India. I graduated from IIIT Delhi with bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering.\u00a0 My research interests lie in areas like program synthesis, compilers, formal methods. \u00a0In my spare time, I enjoy crocheting, watching movies, and listening to music.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\"> Ruhma Mehek Khan<\/span><\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059171 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/my_pic-1-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Rhuma's Intro pic\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/my_pic-1-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/my_pic-1-189x180.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/my_pic-1.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<p>Hi! I&#8217;m Ruhma. I&#8217;ve recently joined PROSE as a Research Fellow, where I&#8217;m currently focusing on combining symbolic methods with LLMs for the Programming by Example task. Before this, I worked as a Software Development Engineer at Adobe, contributing to the AEM Guides team. I recently completed my bachelor&#8217;s in Computer Science and Social Sciences from IIITD, India. My research interests encompass Machine Learning (ML), Computational Social Sciences, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with a passion for conducting impactful research that delivers tangible benefits. Beyond my professional pursuits, I have a keen interest in psychology and economics and always enjoy a good discussion about intriguing theories. For me, the perfect kind of fun involves a coffee, a book, and a beautiful view of nature!<\/p>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Shashank Kirtania<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1001706  alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"Shashank Kirtania\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Hello there, I am Shashank Kirtania. I joined the PROSE team as a Research Fellow, where I&#8217;ll be contributing to the VS Copilot team. I recently completed my degree in Computer Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. My professional interests are rooted in machine learning and using machine learning to decipher complex modalities. Beyond computer science, I am interested in art and history.<\/span>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Aayush Kumar<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1102494 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Aayush_Kumar_PP-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Aayush's image\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Aayush_Kumar_PP-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Aayush_Kumar_PP-135x180.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Aayush_Kumar_PP.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\"><span data-teams=\"true\">Hi, I\u2019m Aayush, a research fellow at the PROSE team. I completed my bachelors degree in Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur. My research interests lie at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence, focusing on curating useful and intelligent interactions that can guide learning and boost productivity for end-users. Outside of research, I love watching, discussing and occasionally making films. I also enjoy reading and dabble in a bit of writing myself.<\/span><\/span>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Jenny Liang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1058937 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-300x300.png\" alt=\"introduction\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a second-year Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University. I am broadly interested in studying how developers write code and building AI tools to support programming activities. Currently, I am studying methods to improve developers&#8217; interactions with code generation tools. In my free time, I like to spend my time with my dog Mei and do weightlifting.\u00a0\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Umang Pandey<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059084 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Umang-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"a man wearing glasses and smiling at the camera\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Umang-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Umang-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Umang-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Umang-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Umang-135x180.jpg 135w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Umang-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tMy name is Umang Pandey and I have recently joined PROSE as a RF. I did my undergrad at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I am extremely curious about the field of Machine Learning in all its shapes and forms . When I am not learning how to make machines learn , I prefer to read about different mythologies and cultures or just have deep conversations on just about anything . I am very excited to start learning and contributing alongside all of you. Hope to meet up (or do whatever is its virtual equivalent)with you soon.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Aishni Parab<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1059009 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab-225x300.png\" alt=\"a person sitting in front of a window posing for the camera\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab-135x180.png 135w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab.png 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tMy name is Aishni. I am a third year PhD student in the Statistics & Data Science department at UCLA. I work on problems at the intersection of AI and Cognitive Science. My research is focused on Vision-Language Concept Learning using Neuro-Symbolic techniques. As an Applied Scientist Intern on the PROSE team, I will be researching and developing methods for extracting tables from images into spreadsheets. In my free time, I love playing tennis and reading; presently, I am reading Dr. Fei Fei Li&#8217;s book &#8216;The Worlds I See&#8217;. (Fun fact about the selfie &#8211; On a weekend this past September, I visited Seattle for the first time to celebrate a friend&#8217;s engagement. Little did I know I would be returning to Washington so soon! I am very excited and grateful to join the PROSE team and the Microsoft community. Looking forward to meeting all the wonderful people here.)\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Bhavish Pahwa<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1059081\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhavish_pic-293x300.jpg\" alt=\"a man sitting in a garden\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhavish_pic-293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhavish_pic-176x180.jpg 176w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhavish_pic.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tBhavish is a dynamic and focused, \u00a0early career professional with experience of more than a year in the tech industry. His research interests are in creating efficient evaluation metric for evaluating LLMs on real-world tasks.\u00a0He is an active open source contributor and deeply motivated by the ideology to democratize AI research.<\/p>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Usneek Singh<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059078 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"usneek profile pic\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-768x1171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-1007x1536.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-118x180.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1.jpg 1049w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m Usneek Singh, a recent graduate in BE Computer Science from BITS Pilani, Pilani campus. Currently, I&#8217;m a Research Fellow with the PROSE team, where I focus on finetuning Language Models for Excel Copilot tasks. My previous projects include work on Tabular Transformers, Long Document Question-Answering, and Efficient Super-Resolution. I&#8217;m driven by a passion for developing AI-powered systems that contribute to global efficiency. Beyond my professional life, I&#8217;m an adventure-seeker, a foodie at heart, and love exploring new places through travel.\u00a0<\/span>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Rishit Toteja<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1058967 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"rohit toteja image\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja-966x1024.jpg 966w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja-768x814.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja-170x180.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Rishit Toteja, a recent graduate from Delhi Technological University, with majors in Electrical Engineering and minor in Computer Engineering. My primary research interests lie in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs). I am particularly passionate about developing AI-driven tools to assist with coding tasks. Additionally, I have a keen interest in the areas of explainable and interpretable AI. Outside of work, I am an avid chess player and enjoy reading philosophy.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Mansi Uniyal\u00a0<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059069 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"a close up of a person\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2-1024x988.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2-768x741.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2-187x180.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">I recently graduated from Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Kharagpur, with minor in Computer Science and micro specialization in AI. I have joined the PROSE team as a Research Fellow. I have always been passionate about AI, in its research and application. I enjoy cooking, painting and playing badminton in my leisure time.<\/span>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-4\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-4\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-3\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2023\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-3\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-4\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Param Biyani<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059111 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"Param's intro pic\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-1536x862.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-2048x1150.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-1066x600.jpg 1066w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-655x368.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-240x135.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-scaled-640x360.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-scaled-960x540.jpg 960w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-1280x720.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Param-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Param Biyani and I am excited to contribute to the PROSE team. I graduated from BITS Goa and am deeply passionate about all research which is highly deployable. I wish to find out how to make machines more capable of coherent cognition, as contemporary LLMs are often brittle in domain and compositional generalization. I have worked on projects ranging from Speech and Audio processing to regularization techniques for data with high missingness. I am particularly enthusiastic about delving into topics related to human interactions with LLMs. My first project will involve developing evaluation metrics for the Copilot debugger. In addition to my professional interests, I have recently taken up regular gymming and I love to watch\/read anime\/manga. I look forward to working with the team, and I appreciate your warm welcome and support.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Bhavya Chopra<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-745555 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bhavya_Chopra.png\" alt=\"Bhavya Chopra\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have recently graduated as a computer science and design engineer from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD), India. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow, and will be working on AI for programming education. I am passionate about HCI and the design of interactive and accessible systems, and am currently exploring program analysis. In my spare time, I enjoy swimming, baking, and learning photography.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Avik Dutta<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059066 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"a man wearing a suit and tie\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/avik.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<p class=\"xmsonormal\">I was born and brought up in a town named Jamshedpur, in the state of Jharkhand, India. I completed my schooling in the same town, after which I shifted to Kharagpur, West Bengal, to pursue my undergraduate degree in IIT Kharagpur. Being always inclined towards AI and its growth in recent years, I decided to build my career in AI\/ML, most specifically in the background of NLP and LLMs. I completed a minor in Computer Science and a micro specialization in Artificial Intelligence, along with my major degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering. I have been part of many research-based projects and the two best things to write home about are the papers which I co-authored with a few PhD students from my Institute. Aside from ML, I was also actively involved in product development in the form of building android games. My two famous games which made into the play store are \u201cRicksy Run\u201d and \u201cBubble Meow\u2019t\u201d. Do take some time out to try these games and let me know your feedback. I was also in works with developing a game where you can make the character move and jump using sounds made by the user, eg. a simple clap of hands. I really enjoy brainstorming new ideas, and most importantly bringing those ideas to reality, and that is what makes PROSE the best environment for me to grow. Aside from academics, I love to read crime thrillers and sci-fi novels. I also love watching Anime and American sitcoms, my favorite being \u201cThe Office US\u201d and \u201cThe Big Bang Theory\u201d, both of which I have watched over 20 times. I am quite a nature lover and like to go on treks and long walks amidst forests and hills.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"xmsonormal\">\t<\/div>\n\t<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Krishna Kariya<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059117 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-300x225.png\" alt=\"a woman sitting on top of a mountain\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-80x60.png 80w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna-240x180.png 240w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Krishna.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Krishna Kariya. I recently joined PROSE team as a research fellow. Earlier, I worked as software engineer with Azure Functions team under DevDiv India. I graduated from IIIT Delhi with bachelors in Computer Science and Engineering.\u00a0 My research interests lie in areas like program synthesis, compilers, formal methods. \u00a0In my spare time, I enjoy crocheting, watching movies, and listening to music.<p>\t<\/div>\n\t<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anirudh Khatry<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-745555 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anirudh_Khatry.jpg\" alt=\"Anirudh Khatry\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have completed my Bachelor&#8217;s in Information Technology from VJTI, Mumbai. My interests lie in building robust machine learning systems and formal methods. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow and will be working on improving user experience using program synthesis in the Data Wrangler effort. Before this, I was working with the AI meets Program Synthesis group at Microsoft Research, India on heterogeneous data extraction tasks. Besides computer science, I love playing the guitar and practicing mixed martial arts.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\"> Ruhma Mehek Khan<\/span><\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059171 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/my_pic-1-300x286.jpg\" alt=\"Rhuma's Intro pic\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/my_pic-1-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/my_pic-1-189x180.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/my_pic-1.jpg 529w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<p>Hi! I&#8217;m Ruhma. I&#8217;ve recently joined PROSE as a Research Fellow, where I&#8217;m currently focusing on combining symbolic methods with LLMs for the Programming by Example task. Before this, I worked as a Software Development Engineer at Adobe, contributing to the AEM Guides team. I recently completed my bachelor&#8217;s in Computer Science and Social Sciences from IIITD, India. My research interests encompass Machine Learning (ML), Computational Social Sciences, and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with a passion for conducting impactful research that delivers tangible benefits. Beyond my professional pursuits, I have a keen interest in psychology and economics and always enjoy a good discussion about intriguing theories. For me, the perfect kind of fun involves a coffee, a book, and a beautiful view of nature!<\/p><p>\t<\/div>\n\t<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Shashank Kirtania<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1001706  alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"Shashank Kirtania\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Hello there, I am Shashank Kirtania. I joined the PROSE team as a Research Fellow, where I&#8217;ll be contributing to the VS Copilot team. I recently completed my degree in Computer Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. My professional interests are rooted in machine learning and using machine learning to decipher complex modalities. Beyond computer science, I am interested in art and history.<\/span>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\"><span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Bhuvanashree Murugadoss<\/span><\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059135 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhuvana_Headshot-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yashashri Masurkar smiling for the camera\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhuvana_Headshot-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhuvana_Headshot-1-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhuvana_Headshot-1-scaled-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhuvana_Headshot-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhuvana_Headshot-1-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhuvana_Headshot-1-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhuvana_Headshot-1-180x180.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Bhuvana_Headshot-1-360x360.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">I recently graduated from Amrita University, Bangalore, with a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining Microsoft, I was a research intern at Oakland University, Michigan, where I contributed to a computer vision project focused on cancer dose optimization. Here, as a Research Fellow, I work with the PROSE and Calc Intelligence teams on developing an evaluation system to measure the quality of complex interactions with LLMs. My primary research interests are in NLP and HCI. Beyond research, I find joy in singing, drawing from my training in Indian Carnatic music, and exploring other musical genres. I also practice penmanship through western and brush calligraphy.<\/span>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Usneek Singh<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059078 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"usneek profile pic\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-671x1024.jpg 671w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-768x1171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-1007x1536.jpg 1007w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1-118x180.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Image-1.jpg 1049w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#8217;m Usneek Singh, a recent graduate in BE Computer Science from BITS Pilani, Pilani campus. Currently, I&#8217;m a Research Fellow with the PROSE team, where I focus on finetuning Language Models for Excel Copilot tasks. My previous projects include work on Tabular Transformers, Long Document Question-Answering, and Efficient Super-Resolution. I&#8217;m driven by a passion for developing AI-powered systems that contribute to global efficiency. Beyond my professional life, I&#8217;m an adventure-seeker, a foodie at heart, and love exploring new places through travel.\u00a0<\/span>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ananya Singha<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-745555 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ananya_Singha.png\" alt=\"Ananya Singha\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Ananya Singha, a recent graduate from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal with a major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a minor in Data Science. I have joined the Microsoft PROSE Team as a research fellow and will be working on enhancing the user experience on PowerApps and Excel. My interest lies in deep learning and the interaction of humans with machine models. I have previously worked in fairness in CV, Graph Neural Network, and Natural Language Processing. As for my hobbies, I like painting, learning new musical instruments to play, and listening to music.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Mansi Uniyal\u00a0<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1059069 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"a close up of a person\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2-1024x988.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2-768x741.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2-187x180.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/pic2.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">I recently graduated from Electrical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) Kharagpur, with minor in Computer Science and micro specialization in AI. I have joined the PROSE team as a Research Fellow. I have always been passionate about AI, in its research and application. I enjoy cooking, painting and playing badminton in my leisure time.<\/span>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-6\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-6\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-5\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2022\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-5\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-6\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yasharth Bajpai<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yasharth.jpg\" alt=\"Yasharth Bajpai\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a research fellow in the Microsoft PROSE team. I am a senior undergraduate at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science & engineering. I am interested in programming languages, software engineering, and computer systems. Currently, I am working with the BluePencil team, creating AI experiences for developers using program synthesis. Besides computer science, I am also excited about linguistics and economics. At leisure, I like listening to music (I am a vocalist, myself). Moreover, I like binge-watching TV series and movies, and following up with world affairs.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Bhavya Chopra<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bhavya_Chopra.png\" alt=\"Bhavya Chopra\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have recently graduated as a computer science and design engineer from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD), India. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow, and will be working on AI for programming education. I am passionate about HCI and the design of interactive and accessible systems, and am currently exploring program analysis. In my spare time, I enjoy swimming, baking, and learning photography.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Abishai Ebenezer<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Abishai-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"Abishai Ebenezer\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<p>I recently completed my BTech in computer science at PES University, Bangalore (2022). My interests in computers mainly revolve around deep learning. Being a part of the team at Microsoft PROSE as a research fellow, I am working on a project involving program repair of formulas for Excel and PowerApps. Prior to this, I was an intern at Microsoft Research (MSR) working on using graph neural networks to improve code-reviewer recommendations in large code repositories. I love playing sports \u2013 especially football, cricket and foosball. Other than that, I enjoy most food and love reading.<\/p><p>\t<\/div>\n\t<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyanshu Gupta<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/priyanshu.png\" alt=\"Priyanshu Gupta\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Priyanshu, a recent computer science graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I have joined the PROSE Team as a research fellow. My research interests lie in machine learning and programming languages. Besides computer science, I enjoy reading about biology, ancient history and anthropology.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Saksham Gupta<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Saksham_Gupta.jpg\" alt=\"Saksham Gupta\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI recently completed my degree in CS from VIT Vellore. I will work on improving Power Automate as a research fellow at PROSE. Before joining PROSE, I spent my time writing code for Prodigal, a cool start-up revolutionizing debt collection. My passion for Tech, Education, and Edtech during school inspired me to work on Edtech research at CMU and tackle Educational inequity with Wave Learning Festival. Outside of work, I love running, lifting, and watching movies.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Michael James<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Michael_James.png\" alt=\"Michael James\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tMichael is a 4th year PhD student at UC San Diego. He works on program synthesizers and how people use them. He has worked on a program synthesizer for the Haskell programming language. He has run user studies to understand how programmers understand and interact with code from program synthesizers. His research goal is to make synthesizers more accessible and easier to use. Outside of his research, you can find him on his bike or in the ceramics studio.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Harshit Joshi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/harshit_joshi.jpg\" alt=\"Harshit Joshi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have recently completed my bachelor&#8217;s from the University of Delhi, India. Previously, I was interning and then working full time with a German startup on entity resolution and master data management. My academic and professional interest ranges from applications of deep learning in healthcare to societal computing, intending to improve &#8220;ease-of-working&#8221; for millions. I am a football nerd and wouldn&#8217;t mind discussing the failing tactics of Barcelona in length over Asian food. Like most engineers, I heavily rely on caffeine and enjoy tea over the mountains while adoring the sunset.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Avishree Khare<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Avishree_Khare.jpg\" alt=\"Avishree Khare\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tHi! I am Avishree Khare. I recently joined the PROSE team as a research fellow and would be working on employing ML for code edits. Prior to this, I was a Software Engineer at Google India where I worked on Capacity Planning for Cloud Storage. Last year, I graduated from BITS Pilani Goa campus with a degree in Computer Science. I am interested in everything Computer Science and am truly very excited to delve deeper into Program Synthesis and its applications! My other interests include running, teaching, and occasionally, writing.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anirudh Khatry<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anirudh_Khatry.jpg\" alt=\"Anirudh Khatry\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have completed my Bachelor&#8217;s in Information Technology from VJTI, Mumbai. My interests lie in building robust machine learning systems and formal methods. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow and will be working on improving user experience using program synthesis in the Data Wrangler effort. Before this, I was working with the AI meets Program Synthesis group at Microsoft Research, India on heterogeneous data extraction tasks. Besides computer science, I love playing the guitar and practicing mixed martial arts.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Chethan Mahadevaswamy<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chethan_M.jpg\" alt=\"Chethan Mahadevaswamy\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have completed my undergraduate studies at National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India, in electronics and communications engineering. I am interested in programming languages, learned embedding for code, and the HCI aspect of programming. I am very excited to work in the AI for programming education project. We are currently working on building intelligent and personalized tutoring tools to help teach programming better. Apart from this, I am an avid RC hobbyist and I love to travel.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Siba Smarak Panigrahi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Siba-Smarak-Panigrahi.jpg\" alt=\"Siba Smarak Panigrahi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Siba Smarak Panigrahi, a final-year undergraduate at the department of computer science and engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. I am from Odisha, a state in eastern India. I have joined the PROSE Team as a research fellow. Before joining, I have worked on projects involving pre-trained language models across various NLP tasks and bias in computer vision. At a high level, I am always curious about explainable and interpretable ML\/AI. Further, I am a chess enthusiast and regularly write small fictions spanning different genres.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Rajaswa Patil<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/display-picture-rajaswa-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Rajaswa Patil\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Rajaswa, a Research Fellow at the PROSE team. Currently, I am working on the Blue-Pencil project, which focuses on developing assistive modeless program synthesis systems. My research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, and Formal Languages. I have completed my bachelors degree in Electrical & Electronics engineering from BITS Pilani (Goa Campus), India. Besides my professional research interests, I also love to spend time reading books, hitting the gym, and participating in education efforts for technology. I am also occasionally curious about behavioral science, economics, and anthropology.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Het Shah<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Het_Shah.jpg\" alt=\"Het Shah\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Het Shah, a recent computer science undergraduate from BITS Pilani, Goa, India. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow to explore program synthesis. Previously, I worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research, India. My research goal is to look at various ways to represent data efficiently. Outside of research, I love to play video games, binge shows, and visit and learn about new places and cultures.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yang Shi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Yang_shi.jpg\" alt=\"Yang Shi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a third year PhD student at North Carolina State University, advised by Thomas Price in the HINTS lab. My research stands on the intersection of computing education and programming language analysis. I have been working towards building data-driven methods for representing student programming code to enhance the ability of intelligent tutoring systems and benefit the student modeling process.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anjali Singh<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Anjali-Singh.jpg\" alt=\"Anjali Singh\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, School of Information. My research focuses on the use of human and machine intelligence to improve introductory data science education. Prior to this, I worked at IBM Research Labs, India, and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 2017, with a Master&#8217;s + Bachelor&#8217;s degree in mathematics and computing. In my spare time, I love to dance, listen to music and travel.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ananya Singha<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ananya_Singha.png\" alt=\"Ananya Singha\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Ananya Singha, a recent graduate from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal with a major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a minor in Data Science. I have joined the Microsoft PROSE Team as a research fellow and will be working on enhancing the user experience on PowerApps and Excel. My interest lies in deep learning and the interaction of humans with machine models. I have previously worked in fairness in CV, Graph Neural Network, and Natural Language Processing. As for my hobbies, I like painting, learning new musical instruments to play, and listening to music.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Mukul Singh<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mukul-Singh-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Mukul Singh\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a final-year undergraduate at the computer science department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, and have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow. I am interested in machine learning and programming languages and believe that the intersection of AI and programming can allow people to perform sophisticated tasks without specialized software development knowledge. I like participating in volunteer activities especially teaching underprivileged kids. I have been associated with a few NGOs and like spending my time planning different activities for them. Apart from this I am an avid reader and love playing video games.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Sushant Sondhi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Sushant_Sondhi.jpeg\" alt=\"Sushant Sondhi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a final year undergraduate, at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and am majoring in computer science and engineering. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow. My research interests lie in the area of deep learning and programming languages, and I have previously worked in the area of extreme classification. Furthermore, I like to watch anime and TV series in my leisure time. I am also an avid reader and my favorite genres include science fiction, crime thrillers, and finance.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyan Vaithilingam<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Priyan-Vaithilingam.jpg\" alt=\"Priyan Vaithilingam\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a second-year PhD student working on the intersection of human-computer interaction and program synthesis, advised by Dr. Elena Glassman from Harvard. Fun fact: this is my fifth &#8220;first day&#8221; at Microsoft. Almost every time I get a Microsoft labeled bottle, but remote work prevented it this time.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Jialu Zhang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jialu_Zhang.png\" alt=\"Jialu Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a rising sixth-year CS PhD student at Yale University, advised by Prof. Ruzica Piskac. I received my B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (IEEE Honor Class), advised by Prof. Xinbing Wang. My research interests are program analysis, automatic debugging, and ML-based software engineering. Currently I am focusing on automated program repair. Previously, I worked on detecting misconfigurations in systems. In my leisure time, I spent most of my time playing table tennis. I was a professional table tennis player before, and I am looking forward to playing with you someday.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yuhao Zhang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yuhao.jpg\" alt=\"Yuhao Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a third-year PhD student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. I am now doing research at madPL group, supervised by Loris D&#8217;Antoni and Aws Albarghouthi. I received my B.S. in computer science at Peking University (PKU) in 2019, supervised by Yingfei Xiong. My main research interest is software engineering and programming languages, especially program analysis and program synthesis. One goal of my research is to develop formal methods for trustworthy deep learning. Specifically, I am interested in developing formal methods to certify and improve the robustness of neural networks and verify the correctness of deep learning software. I am also interested in combining program synthesis and deep learning to generate programs in an interpretable and certifiable way.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-8\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-8\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-7\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2021\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-7\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-8\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yasharth Bajpai<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yasharth.jpg\" alt=\"Yasharth Bajpai\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a research fellow in the Microsoft PROSE team. I am a senior undergraduate at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science & engineering. I am interested in programming languages, software engineering, and computer systems. Currently, I am working with the BluePencil team, creating AI experiences for developers using program synthesis. Besides computer science, I am also excited about linguistics and economics. At leisure, I like listening to music (I am a vocalist, myself). Moreover, I like binge-watching TV series and movies, and following up with world affairs.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Rohan Bavishi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohan.jpg\" alt=\"Rohan Bavishi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Rohan Bavishi, a 4th year PhD candidate at UC Berkeley advised by Koushik Sen. My research has focused on building synthesis-powered productivity tools for data-scientists, providing automation of key tasks such as data-prep or table-transformations and data visualization, given simple and easy-to-provide queries or specifications from the user. These tools leverage state-of-the-art machine learning models such as graph neural networks and use advanced code mining techniques to harness the power of open-source repositories of code. Beyond research, I enjoy playing the piano, reading non-fiction, designing video games, and cooking.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyanshu Gupta<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/priyanshu.png\" alt=\"Priyanshu Gupta\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Priyanshu, a recent computer science graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I have joined the PROSE Team as a research fellow. My research interests lie in machine learning and programming languages. Besides computer science, I enjoy reading about biology, ancient history and anthropology.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Harshit Joshi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/harshit_joshi.jpg\" alt=\"Harshit Joshi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have recently completed my bachelor&#8217;s from the University of Delhi, India. Previously, I was interning and then working full time with a German startup on entity resolution and master data management. My academic and professional interest ranges from applications of deep learning in healthcare to societal computing, intending to improve &#8220;ease-of-working&#8221; for millions. I am a football nerd and wouldn&#8217;t mind discussing the failing tactics of Barcelona in length over Asian food. Like most engineers, I heavily rely on caffeine and enjoy tea over the mountains while adoring the sunset.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Chethan Mahadevaswamy<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chethan_M.jpg\" alt=\"Chethan Mahadevaswamy\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have completed my undergraduate studies at National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India, in electronics and communications engineering. I am interested in programming languages, learned embedding for code, and the HCI aspect of programming. I am very excited to work in the AI for programming education project. We are currently working on building intelligent and personalized tutoring tools to help teach programming better. Apart from this, I am an avid RC hobbyist and I love to travel.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Adithya Murali<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/adithya.jpg\" alt=\"Adithya Murali\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a 4th (read: 100th) year PhD student at UIUC where I think about problems at the intersection of deep learning and logic learning. In particular I am interested in learning frameworks that can glean aggregations of features and associate them to concrete symbols that can then be manipulated using a higher-order logical\/programmatic layer. I am trying to figure out what I stand for in terms of AI philosophy but I am always open to learning about new mathematical formulations and pursue problems that aren&#8217;t in the horizon of what seems possible in the next five years. My time at Microsoft so far has been a blinding revelation of what it means to keep an eye on building useful products, and I am loving every minute of it! When I am not working or worrying about working, I am singing, biking, or making up bad puns and malaphors. Hit me up if you want to talk about Responsible AI, Neurodivergence, Thriller Movies, or The Office.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Gabriel Poesia Reis e Silva<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gabriel.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel Poesia Reis e Silva\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a second-year PhD student at Stanford, coming from Brazil, where I graduated with a MSc in Compilers at UFMG. My research has focused on developing useful forms of human-computer interaction where the burden of specification doesn&#8217;t fall entirely on users. I believe that modern tools developed in the AI and Programming Languages communities can allow the average computer user to have the productivity benefits of automation that currently require programming knowledge. Besides research, I enjoy road biking, playing and making music, cooking, reading, and writing prose poetry. My second name (Poesia) means &#8220;Poetry&#8221; in Portuguese, so being part of PROSE is an interesting coincidence.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyan Vaithilingam<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Priyan-Vaithilingam.jpg\" alt=\"Priyan Vaithilingam\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a second-year PhD student working on the intersection of human-computer interaction and program synthesis, advised by Dr. Elena Glassman from Harvard. Fun fact: this is my fifth &#8220;first day&#8221; at Microsoft. Almost every time I get a Microsoft labeled bottle, but remote work prevented it this time.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yuhao Zhang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yuhao.jpg\" alt=\"Yuhao Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a Research Intern in the PROSE team. My main research interest is software engineering and programming languages, especially program analysis and program synthesis. In the PROSE team, I am focused on developing program synthesis technologies to improve edit suggestions for software developers. I am a second-year PhD student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. One goal of my PhD research is to develop formal methods for trustworthy deep learning. Specifically, I am interested in developing formal methods to certify and improve the robustness of neural networks and verify the correctness of deep learning software.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-10\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-10\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-9\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2020\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-9\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-10\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wode &#8220;Nimo&#8221; Ni<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nimo.jpg\" alt=\"Wode Nimo Ni\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tWode &#8220;Nimo&#8221; Ni is a 2nd year Ph.D. student at CMU working with Ken Koedinger and Josh Sunshine. He is mainly interested in human-computer interaction, programming languages, and building usable tools that help people to understand and learn better. He works to bridge the gap between novices and experts by (1) lowering the barrier of powerful tools and (2) encoding expertise and transferring it to novices. In the past few years, he has been working on theories and tools for diagramming. Examples include <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~woden\/assets\/chi-20-natural-diagramming.pdf\">Natural Diagramming<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, a set of design guidelines for effective diagramming tools, and <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/penrose\/penrose\">Penrose<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, a diagramming system that lets you create beautiful diagrams by just typing math notations in plain text. When he is not working, he is usually at a pool table, playing a yo-yo, or dancing. Nimo is known to spend an inestimable amount of time playing pool, so he is always up for a pool game.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Kia Rahmani<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/kia.png\" alt=\"Kia Rahmani\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tKia is a PhD candidate at Purdue university working under the supervision of Suresh Jagannathan and Benjamin Delaware. His main research interests are compilation, synthesis and testing of data-intensive programs. Specifically, he has developed a run-time tool for enforcement of fine-grained (weak) consistency guarantees in distributed &#8220;NoSQL&#8221; databases and also worked on an end-to-end testing framework for programs running on such systems. He recently developed an idea to repair concurrency bugs present in aforementioned programs, solely by modifying the underlying data-model and without incurring additional run-time checks. He considers himself an existentialist and is not very good at abstracting himself via common human languages. He enjoys having long walks in the nature and playing music. He is very excited to be a part of PROSE team!\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-12\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-12\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-11\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2019\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-11\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-12\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Shraddha Barke<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shraddha.png\" alt=\"Shraddha Barke\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a first-year PhD student at UC San Diego in the Programming Systems group advised by Nadia Polikarpova. I am interested in programming languages and formal methods research, with an emphasis on automated program synthesis and verification techniques. My project, SyPhon, is a constraint based synthesis system for learning fully interpretable phonological rules from a set of examples. Currently, I am working with the PROSE team at Microsoft with Gustavo Soares and Alan Leung. I am working on BluePencil, an on-the-fly synthesis system that identifies repetitive changes and automatically suggests transformations that can be applied in other locations. Besides research, I am involved in diversity, equity and inclusion activities &#8211; I am on the board of UCSD&#8217;s GradWIC and DEI committee. I also enjoy hiking, biking and pretty much anything involving being outdoors.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anna Fariha<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/annafariha-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Fariha\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I work at the Database Lab under the supervision of Prof. Alexandra Meliou. My research interest is in the area of data management. Particularly, I am interested in database usability. My recent project was <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/squid.cs.umass.edu\">SQuID<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, which is a semantic similarity aware query by example system towards query intent discovery from few user provided examples. In 2018, I was a Research Intern at Microsoft Research, Redmond, in the Data Management, Exploration and Mining (DMX) group and my mentor was Suman Nath. This year, I am working with the PROSE team on data understanding and data-drift detection with Ashish Tiwari and Sumit Gulwani. Outside research, I am interested in piano, hiking, traveling, tv-series, reading books, and music.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Xiang Gao<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/xiang.jpg\" alt=\"Xiang Gao\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tXiang Gao is a Ph.D. student in the School of Computing at National University of Singapore under the supervision of Abhik Roychoudhury. His thesis work is focused on using program analysis, test generation and formal methods to aid users in fixing software bugs and writing programs. He designed techniques to improve the quality of automatically generated programs by automated program repair and program synthesis. He was a Research Intern at Microsoft, where he worked on a project to use semi-supervised program synthesis for program transformations with the PROSE team, Gustavo Soares, Arjun Radhakrishna, and Sumit Gulwani.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Austin Henley<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/austin.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Henley\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee researching software engineering and human-computer interaction. I design and build more usable software development tools by applying human-computer interaction methodologies to software engineering with the goal of increasing developer productivity. Recently, I have been integrating predictive models into development environments in the form of recommendation systems and intelligent program analyzers. My collaboration with the PROSE Team aims to understand the fundamental barriers that data scientists face and design tools for comprehending data more effectively.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ameya Ketkar<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ameya_Ketkar.jpg\" alt=\"Ameya Ketkar\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am currently pursuing my PhD in computer science at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Since 2017, I have been working under the supervision of Dr. Danny Dig. I am a Java enthusiast, and enjoy developing tools for Java developers. My research interest currently is static code analysis, software refactoring and empirical software engineering. I received my Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University, Mumbai, India. I have worked as a Java developer for Barclays Investment Bank, Barclays Technology Center India, Pune, India, where I contributed in developing their Trade and Transaction Reporting platform.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Nicholas Nelson<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nicholas.png\" alt=\"Nicholas Nelson\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tNicholas Nelson is a 5th year PhD student working with Dr. Anita Sarma at Oregon State University. His research is at the intersection of Software Engineering and HCI, focusing on translating cognitive problem-solving processes into developer tools and environments. Using empirical research methods, he combines insights about how developers work with new developer tools that more closely mirror those efficient natural workflows. His work has been published and recognized with best paper awards at top SE conferences such as ICSE, FSE, and ICSME, and in the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal. He is working with Titus Barik on extending the integrated code\/narrative nature of JupyterLab with insights from observations of common barriers and workflows of data scientists.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Zhengkai Wu<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/zhengkai.jpg\" alt=\"Zhengkai Wu\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tZhengkai Wu is currently a third year PhD student in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with Prof. Tao Xie. His research interest includes involving Artificial Intelligence techniques into traditional software engineering problems like test generation. From now until December, he is working with Vu Le on helping data scientists to make visualization of data easier. Outside research, Zhengkai enjoys playing video games and watching animations. He is also experienced in competitive programming. He competed in ACM-ICPC and got silver medal in World Final representing Peking University during undergrad. He is now the coach of the UIUC ICPC team.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Mengshi Zhang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mengshi_zhang.png\" alt=\"Mengshi Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tMengshi Zhang is a Research Scientist at Facebook. He obtained his masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Before that, he received his bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014. At UT Austin, he was a member of the Software Verification Validation and Testing Laboratory led by Prof. Sarfraz Khurshid. His research interests lie in Automated Software Debugging and Deep Learning.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-14\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-14\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-13\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2018\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-13\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-14\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ian Drosos<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ian_drosos.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Drosos\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Ian Drosos, a 5th year PhD candidate in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. I research Human-Computer Interaction with Philip Guo as part of the Design Lab, where I investigate the designing and implementing of tools to support and enhance the workflows of content creators, developers, data scientists, and learners. While I was a research intern with the PROSE team, we designed and developed Wrex to provide readable program synthesis to data scientists within their computational notebooks.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anders Miltner<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Anders_Miltner.png\" alt=\"Anders Miltner\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tAnders Miltner worked with the PROSE team on IntelliCode Refactoring. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2020. Anders Miltner is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UT Austin, working on synthesizing functional programs and data structures.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-16\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-16\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-15\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2016\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-15\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-16\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Kevin Ellis<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/kevin_ellis.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Ellis\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tAfter his PROSE internship, Kevin Ellis completed his PhD in cognitive science at MIT, then worked as a research scientist at Common Sense Machines, and has now joined the computer science faculty at Cornell. He still synthesizes programs.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Saswat Padhi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Saswat_Padhi.jpg\" alt=\"Saswat Padhi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Saswat, and I interned with PROSE in the summer + fall of 2016. I was working on pattern synthesis and the initial version of Matching.Text. I am currently an applied scientist in the Automated Reasoning Group at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working on invariant synthesis and more generally on scaling software verification. Prior to joining AWS, I graduated from UCLA in 2020 with a PhD in computer science. My research interests span across program verification, program synthesis, and statistical learning.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-18\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-18\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-17\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2015\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-17\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-18\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Dana Drachsler Cohen<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dana_drachsler_cohen.jpg\" alt=\"Dana Drachsler Cohen\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tDana is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion. She interned at MSR in 2015 and worked on automatically converting spreadsheet tables to relational tables.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">John Feser<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/John_Feser.jpg\" alt=\"John Feser\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am John Feser, a first year grad student at Rice University, advised by Swarat Chaudhuri. My research is on program synthesis, and this summer, I will be working with the SIP team and the FlashXteam to build a synthesis system for extracting and analyzing data from log files. In my free time I like biking, hiking, and cooking.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Thorsten Tarrach<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Thorsten_Tarrach.jpg\" alt=\"Thorsten Tarrach\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tThorsten interned at MSR in 2015 and worked on the improvement of the FlashFill synthesis algorithm in Excel, experimenting with different machine learning techniques. After his internship he returned to the Institute of Science and Technology Austria to complete his PhD. He is currently working as a Research Engineer at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Xinyu Wang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Xinyu_Wang.png\" alt=\"Xinyu Wang\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tXinyu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and computer science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He obtained his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and was a researcher in the PROSE team until 2020. His research interests include programming languages, formal methods, and software engineering.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n\t<div data-wp-context='{\"items\":[]}' data-wp-interactive=\"msr\/accordion\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"clearfix\">\n\t\t\t\t<div\n\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn-group align-items-center mb-g float-sm-right\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-aN=\"accordion-collapse-controls\"\n\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-link m-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-cN=\"Expand all\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-controls=\"state.ariaControls\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.ariaExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--disabled=\"state.isAllExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--inactive=\"state.isAllExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onExpandAll\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tExpand all\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t\t<span aria-hidden=\"true\"> | <\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-link m-0\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-bi-cN=\"Collapse all\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-controls=\"state.ariaControls\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.ariaExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--disabled=\"state.isAllCollapsed\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-class--inactive=\"state.isAllCollapsed\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onCollapseAll\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tCollapse all\t\t\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<ul class=\"msr-accordion\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-20\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-20\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-19\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2024\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-19\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-20\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Aishni Parab<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1059009 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab-225x300.png\" alt=\"a person sitting in front of a window posing for the camera\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab-135x180.png 135w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab.png 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p><p>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tMy name is Aishni. I am a third year PhD student in the Statistics & Data Science department at UCLA. I work on problems at the intersection of AI and Cognitive Science. My research is focused on Vision-Language Concept Learning using Neuro-Symbolic techniques. As an Applied Scientist Intern on the PROSE team, I will be researching and developing methods for extracting tables from images into spreadsheets. In my free time, I love playing tennis and reading; presently, I am reading Dr. Fei Fei Li&#8217;s book &#8216;The Worlds I See&#8217;. (Fun fact about the selfie &#8211; On a weekend this past September, I visited Seattle for the first time to celebrate a friend&#8217;s engagement. Little did I know I would be returning to Washington so soon! I am very excited and grateful to join the PROSE team and the Microsoft community. Looking forward to meeting all the wonderful people here.)\t<\/div>\n\t<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Aishni Parab<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1059009 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab-225x300.png\" alt=\"a person sitting in front of a window posing for the camera\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab-135x180.png 135w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/aishni_parab.png 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p><p>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tMy name is Aishni. I am a third year PhD student in the Statistics & Data Science department at UCLA. I work on problems at the intersection of AI and Cognitive Science. My research is focused on Vision-Language Concept Learning using Neuro-Symbolic techniques. As an Applied Scientist Intern on the PROSE team, I will be researching and developing methods for extracting tables from images into spreadsheets. In my free time, I love playing tennis and reading; presently, I am reading Dr. Fei Fei Li&#8217;s book &#8216;The Worlds I See&#8217;. (Fun fact about the selfie &#8211; On a weekend this past September, I visited Seattle for the first time to celebrate a friend&#8217;s engagement. Little did I know I would be returning to Washington so soon! I am very excited and grateful to join the PROSE team and the Microsoft community. Looking forward to meeting all the wonderful people here.)\t<\/div>\n\t<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Jenny Liang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1058937 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-300x300.png\" alt=\"introduction\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/jenny_Liang.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a second-year Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University. I am broadly interested in studying how developers write code and building AI tools to support programming activities. Currently, I am studying methods to improve developers&#8217; interactions with code generation tools. In my free time, I like to spend my time with my dog Mei and do weightlifting.\u00a0\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Celeste Barnaby<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1058946 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-300x300.png\" alt=\",\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/celeste.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a fourth-year PhD student in Computer Science at UT Austin. My research involves applying neuro-symbolic program synthesis techniques to image search\/editing.\u202f Prior to grad school, I worked on the Big Code team at Facebook as a software engineer. Outside of work, I love playing guitar, hiking, and crossword puzzles. This is my first time in the Puget Sound area so please recommend me places to explore!\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Sahil Bhatia<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1058952 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sahil-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"a man sitting at a table with a cup of coffee\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sahil-226x300.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sahil-136x180.jpg 136w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/sahil.jpg 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Sahil Bhatia. I am a 4th\u202fyear PhD student (read as first year student with 4 years of experience) at UC Berkeley. I am interested\u202fin the intersection of machine learning and program synthesis. In particular, I work on building tools for automatically translating code to DSLs. Outside work I like to play badminton, tennis and video\u202fgames. I also enjoy exploring new cafes for coffee (if anyone has recommendations, please\u202flet me know. I heard coffee is great here.)\u202f\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Rohit Toteja<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1058967 size-medium alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja-283x300.jpg\" alt=\"rohit toteja image\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja-966x1024.jpg 966w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja-768x814.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja-170x180.jpg 170w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohit-toteja.jpg 1031w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 283px) 100vw, 283px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Rishit Toteja, a recent graduate from Delhi Technological University, with majors in Electrical Engineering and minor in Computer Engineering. My primary research interests lie in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Large Language Models (LLMs). I am particularly passionate about developing AI-driven tools to assist with coding tasks. Additionally, I have a keen interest in the areas of explainable and interpretable AI. Outside of work, I am an avid chess player and enjoy reading philosophy.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-22\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-22\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-21\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2023\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-21\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-22\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Shashank Kirtania<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1001706  alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-300x300.png\" alt=\"Shashank Kirtania\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-180x180.png 180w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1-360x360.png 360w, https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-1.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 208px) 100vw, 208px\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<span class=\"ui-provider a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z ab ac ae af ag ah ai aj ak\" dir=\"ltr\">Hello there, I am Shashank Kirtania. I joined the PROSE team as a Research Fellow, where I&#8217;ll be contributing to the VS Copilot team. I recently completed my degree in Computer Engineering from Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology. My professional interests are rooted in machine learning and using machine learning to decipher complex modalities. Beyond computer science, I am interested in art and history.<\/span>\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-24\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-24\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-23\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2022\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-23\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-24\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yasharth Bajpai<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yasharth.jpg\" alt=\"Yasharth Bajpai\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a research fellow in the Microsoft PROSE team. I am a senior undergraduate at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science & engineering. I am interested in programming languages, software engineering, and computer systems. Currently, I am working with the BluePencil team, creating AI experiences for developers using program synthesis. Besides computer science, I am also excited about linguistics and economics. At leisure, I like listening to music (I am a vocalist, myself). Moreover, I like binge-watching TV series and movies, and following up with world affairs.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Bhavya Chopra<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bhavya_Chopra.png\" alt=\"Bhavya Chopra\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have recently graduated as a computer science and design engineer from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD), India. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow, and will be working on AI for programming education. I am passionate about HCI and the design of interactive and accessible systems, and am currently exploring program analysis. In my spare time, I enjoy swimming, baking, and learning photography.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Abishai Ebenezer<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Abishai-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"Abishai Ebenezer\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\t<p>I recently completed my BTech in computer science at PES University, Bangalore (2022). My interests in computers mainly revolve around deep learning. Being a part of the team at Microsoft PROSE as a research fellow, I am working on a project involving program repair of formulas for Excel and PowerApps. Prior to this, I was an intern at Microsoft Research (MSR) working on using graph neural networks to improve code-reviewer recommendations in large code repositories. I love playing sports \u2013 especially football, cricket and foosball. Other than that, I enjoy most food and love reading.<\/p><p>\t<\/div>\n\t<\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyanshu Gupta<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/priyanshu.png\" alt=\"Priyanshu Gupta\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Priyanshu, a recent computer science graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I have joined the PROSE Team as a research fellow. My research interests lie in machine learning and programming languages. Besides computer science, I enjoy reading about biology, ancient history and anthropology.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Saksham Gupta<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Saksham_Gupta.jpg\" alt=\"Saksham Gupta\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI recently completed my degree in CS from VIT Vellore. I will work on improving Power Automate as a research fellow at PROSE. Before joining PROSE, I spent my time writing code for Prodigal, a cool start-up revolutionizing debt collection. My passion for Tech, Education, and Edtech during school inspired me to work on Edtech research at CMU and tackle Educational inequity with Wave Learning Festival. Outside of work, I love running, lifting, and watching movies.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Michael James<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Michael_James.png\" alt=\"Michael James\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tMichael is a 4th year PhD student at UC San Diego. He works on program synthesizers and how people use them. He has worked on a program synthesizer for the Haskell programming language. He has run user studies to understand how programmers understand and interact with code from program synthesizers. His research goal is to make synthesizers more accessible and easier to use. Outside of his research, you can find him on his bike or in the ceramics studio.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Harshit Joshi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/harshit_joshi.jpg\" alt=\"Harshit Joshi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have recently completed my bachelor&#8217;s from the University of Delhi, India. Previously, I was interning and then working full time with a German startup on entity resolution and master data management. My academic and professional interest ranges from applications of deep learning in healthcare to societal computing, intending to improve &#8220;ease-of-working&#8221; for millions. I am a football nerd and wouldn&#8217;t mind discussing the failing tactics of Barcelona in length over Asian food. Like most engineers, I heavily rely on caffeine and enjoy tea over the mountains while adoring the sunset.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Avishree Khare<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Avishree_Khare.jpg\" alt=\"Avishree Khare\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tHi! I am Avishree Khare. I recently joined the PROSE team as a research fellow and would be working on employing ML for code edits. Prior to this, I was a Software Engineer at Google India where I worked on Capacity Planning for Cloud Storage. Last year, I graduated from BITS Pilani Goa campus with a degree in Computer Science. I am interested in everything Computer Science and am truly very excited to delve deeper into Program Synthesis and its applications! My other interests include running, teaching, and occasionally, writing.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anirudh Khatry<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anirudh_Khatry.jpg\" alt=\"Anirudh Khatry\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have completed my Bachelor&#8217;s in Information Technology from VJTI, Mumbai. My interests lie in building robust machine learning systems and formal methods. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow and will be working on improving user experience using program synthesis in the Data Wrangler effort. Before this, I was working with the AI meets Program Synthesis group at Microsoft Research, India on heterogeneous data extraction tasks. Besides computer science, I love playing the guitar and practicing mixed martial arts.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Chethan Mahadevaswamy<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chethan_M.jpg\" alt=\"Chethan Mahadevaswamy\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have completed my undergraduate studies at National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India, in electronics and communications engineering. I am interested in programming languages, learned embedding for code, and the HCI aspect of programming. I am very excited to work in the AI for programming education project. We are currently working on building intelligent and personalized tutoring tools to help teach programming better. Apart from this, I am an avid RC hobbyist and I love to travel.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Siba Smarak Panigrahi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Siba-Smarak-Panigrahi.jpg\" alt=\"Siba Smarak Panigrahi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Siba Smarak Panigrahi, a final-year undergraduate at the department of computer science and engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. I am from Odisha, a state in eastern India. I have joined the PROSE Team as a research fellow. Before joining, I have worked on projects involving pre-trained language models across various NLP tasks and bias in computer vision. At a high level, I am always curious about explainable and interpretable ML\/AI. Further, I am a chess enthusiast and regularly write small fictions spanning different genres.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Rajaswa Patil<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/display-picture-rajaswa-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Rajaswa Patil\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Rajaswa, a Research Fellow at the PROSE team. Currently, I am working on the Blue-Pencil project, which focuses on developing assistive modeless program synthesis systems. My research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, and Formal Languages. I have completed my bachelors degree in Electrical & Electronics engineering from BITS Pilani (Goa Campus), India. Besides my professional research interests, I also love to spend time reading books, hitting the gym, and participating in education efforts for technology. I am also occasionally curious about behavioral science, economics, and anthropology.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Het Shah<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Het_Shah.jpg\" alt=\"Het Shah\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Het Shah, a recent computer science undergraduate from BITS Pilani, Goa, India. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow to explore program synthesis. Previously, I worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research, India. My research goal is to look at various ways to represent data efficiently. Outside of research, I love to play video games, binge shows, and visit and learn about new places and cultures.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yang Shi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Yang_shi.jpg\" alt=\"Yang Shi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a third year PhD student at North Carolina State University, advised by Thomas Price in the HINTS lab. My research stands on the intersection of computing education and programming language analysis. I have been working towards building data-driven methods for representing student programming code to enhance the ability of intelligent tutoring systems and benefit the student modeling process.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anjali Singh<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Anjali-Singh.jpg\" alt=\"Anjali Singh\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, School of Information. My research focuses on the use of human and machine intelligence to improve introductory data science education. Prior to this, I worked at IBM Research Labs, India, and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 2017, with a Master&#8217;s + Bachelor&#8217;s degree in mathematics and computing. In my spare time, I love to dance, listen to music and travel.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ananya Singha<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ananya_Singha.png\" alt=\"Ananya Singha\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Ananya Singha, a recent graduate from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal with a major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a minor in Data Science. I have joined the Microsoft PROSE Team as a research fellow and will be working on enhancing the user experience on PowerApps and Excel. My interest lies in deep learning and the interaction of humans with machine models. I have previously worked in fairness in CV, Graph Neural Network, and Natural Language Processing. As for my hobbies, I like painting, learning new musical instruments to play, and listening to music.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Mukul Singh<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mukul-Singh-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Mukul Singh\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a final-year undergraduate at the computer science department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, and have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow. I am interested in machine learning and programming languages and believe that the intersection of AI and programming can allow people to perform sophisticated tasks without specialized software development knowledge. I like participating in volunteer activities especially teaching underprivileged kids. I have been associated with a few NGOs and like spending my time planning different activities for them. Apart from this I am an avid reader and love playing video games.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Sushant Sondhi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Sushant_Sondhi.jpeg\" alt=\"Sushant Sondhi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a final year undergraduate, at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and am majoring in computer science and engineering. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow. My research interests lie in the area of deep learning and programming languages, and I have previously worked in the area of extreme classification. Furthermore, I like to watch anime and TV series in my leisure time. I am also an avid reader and my favorite genres include science fiction, crime thrillers, and finance.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyan Vaithilingam<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Priyan-Vaithilingam.jpg\" alt=\"Priyan Vaithilingam\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a second-year PhD student working on the intersection of human-computer interaction and program synthesis, advised by Dr. Elena Glassman from Harvard. Fun fact: this is my fifth &#8220;first day&#8221; at Microsoft. Almost every time I get a Microsoft labeled bottle, but remote work prevented it this time.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Jialu Zhang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jialu_Zhang.png\" alt=\"Jialu Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a rising sixth-year CS PhD student at Yale University, advised by Prof. Ruzica Piskac. I received my B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (IEEE Honor Class), advised by Prof. Xinbing Wang. My research interests are program analysis, automatic debugging, and ML-based software engineering. Currently I am focusing on automated program repair. Previously, I worked on detecting misconfigurations in systems. In my leisure time, I spent most of my time playing table tennis. I was a professional table tennis player before, and I am looking forward to playing with you someday.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yuhao Zhang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yuhao.jpg\" alt=\"Yuhao Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a third-year PhD student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. I am now doing research at madPL group, supervised by Loris D&#8217;Antoni and Aws Albarghouthi. I received my B.S. in computer science at Peking University (PKU) in 2019, supervised by Yingfei Xiong. My main research interest is software engineering and programming languages, especially program analysis and program synthesis. One goal of my research is to develop formal methods for trustworthy deep learning. Specifically, I am interested in developing formal methods to certify and improve the robustness of neural networks and verify the correctness of deep learning software. I am also interested in combining program synthesis and deep learning to generate programs in an interpretable and certifiable way.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-26\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-26\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-25\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2021\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-25\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-26\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yasharth Bajpai<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yasharth.jpg\" alt=\"Yasharth Bajpai\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a research fellow in the Microsoft PROSE team. I am a senior undergraduate at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science & engineering. I am interested in programming languages, software engineering, and computer systems. Currently, I am working with the BluePencil team, creating AI experiences for developers using program synthesis. Besides computer science, I am also excited about linguistics and economics. At leisure, I like listening to music (I am a vocalist, myself). Moreover, I like binge-watching TV series and movies, and following up with world affairs.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Rohan Bavishi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohan.jpg\" alt=\"Rohan Bavishi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Rohan Bavishi, a 4th year PhD candidate at UC Berkeley advised by Koushik Sen. My research has focused on building synthesis-powered productivity tools for data-scientists, providing automation of key tasks such as data-prep or table-transformations and data visualization, given simple and easy-to-provide queries or specifications from the user. These tools leverage state-of-the-art machine learning models such as graph neural networks and use advanced code mining techniques to harness the power of open-source repositories of code. Beyond research, I enjoy playing the piano, reading non-fiction, designing video games, and cooking.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyanshu Gupta<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/priyanshu.png\" alt=\"Priyanshu Gupta\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Priyanshu, a recent computer science graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I have joined the PROSE Team as a research fellow. My research interests lie in machine learning and programming languages. Besides computer science, I enjoy reading about biology, ancient history and anthropology.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Harshit Joshi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/harshit_joshi.jpg\" alt=\"Harshit Joshi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have recently completed my bachelor&#8217;s from the University of Delhi, India. Previously, I was interning and then working full time with a German startup on entity resolution and master data management. My academic and professional interest ranges from applications of deep learning in healthcare to societal computing, intending to improve &#8220;ease-of-working&#8221; for millions. I am a football nerd and wouldn&#8217;t mind discussing the failing tactics of Barcelona in length over Asian food. Like most engineers, I heavily rely on caffeine and enjoy tea over the mountains while adoring the sunset.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Chethan Mahadevaswamy<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chethan_M.jpg\" alt=\"Chethan Mahadevaswamy\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI have completed my undergraduate studies at National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India, in electronics and communications engineering. I am interested in programming languages, learned embedding for code, and the HCI aspect of programming. I am very excited to work in the AI for programming education project. We are currently working on building intelligent and personalized tutoring tools to help teach programming better. Apart from this, I am an avid RC hobbyist and I love to travel.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Adithya Murali<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/adithya.jpg\" alt=\"Adithya Murali\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a 4th (read: 100th) year PhD student at UIUC where I think about problems at the intersection of deep learning and logic learning. In particular I am interested in learning frameworks that can glean aggregations of features and associate them to concrete symbols that can then be manipulated using a higher-order logical\/programmatic layer. I am trying to figure out what I stand for in terms of AI philosophy but I am always open to learning about new mathematical formulations and pursue problems that aren&#8217;t in the horizon of what seems possible in the next five years. My time at Microsoft so far has been a blinding revelation of what it means to keep an eye on building useful products, and I am loving every minute of it! When I am not working or worrying about working, I am singing, biking, or making up bad puns and malaphors. Hit me up if you want to talk about Responsible AI, Neurodivergence, Thriller Movies, or The Office.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Gabriel Poesia Reis e Silva<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gabriel.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel Poesia Reis e Silva\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a second-year PhD student at Stanford, coming from Brazil, where I graduated with a MSc in Compilers at UFMG. My research has focused on developing useful forms of human-computer interaction where the burden of specification doesn&#8217;t fall entirely on users. I believe that modern tools developed in the AI and Programming Languages communities can allow the average computer user to have the productivity benefits of automation that currently require programming knowledge. Besides research, I enjoy road biking, playing and making music, cooking, reading, and writing prose poetry. My second name (Poesia) means &#8220;Poetry&#8221; in Portuguese, so being part of PROSE is an interesting coincidence.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyan Vaithilingam<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Priyan-Vaithilingam.jpg\" alt=\"Priyan Vaithilingam\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a second-year PhD student working on the intersection of human-computer interaction and program synthesis, advised by Dr. Elena Glassman from Harvard. Fun fact: this is my fifth &#8220;first day&#8221; at Microsoft. Almost every time I get a Microsoft labeled bottle, but remote work prevented it this time.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yuhao Zhang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yuhao.jpg\" alt=\"Yuhao Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a Research Intern in the PROSE team. My main research interest is software engineering and programming languages, especially program analysis and program synthesis. In the PROSE team, I am focused on developing program synthesis technologies to improve edit suggestions for software developers. I am a second-year PhD student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. One goal of my PhD research is to develop formal methods for trustworthy deep learning. Specifically, I am interested in developing formal methods to certify and improve the robustness of neural networks and verify the correctness of deep learning software.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-28\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-28\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-27\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2020\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-27\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-28\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wode &#8220;Nimo&#8221; Ni<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nimo.jpg\" alt=\"Wode Nimo Ni\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tWode &#8220;Nimo&#8221; Ni is a 2nd year Ph.D. student at CMU working with Ken Koedinger and Josh Sunshine. He is mainly interested in human-computer interaction, programming languages, and building usable tools that help people to understand and learn better. He works to bridge the gap between novices and experts by (1) lowering the barrier of powerful tools and (2) encoding expertise and transferring it to novices. In the past few years, he has been working on theories and tools for diagramming. Examples include <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~woden\/assets\/chi-20-natural-diagramming.pdf\">Natural Diagramming<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, a set of design guidelines for effective diagramming tools, and <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/penrose\/penrose\">Penrose<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, a diagramming system that lets you create beautiful diagrams by just typing math notations in plain text. When he is not working, he is usually at a pool table, playing a yo-yo, or dancing. Nimo is known to spend an inestimable amount of time playing pool, so he is always up for a pool game.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Kia Rahmani<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/kia.png\" alt=\"Kia Rahmani\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tKia is a PhD candidate at Purdue university working under the supervision of Suresh Jagannathan and Benjamin Delaware. His main research interests are compilation, synthesis and testing of data-intensive programs. Specifically, he has developed a run-time tool for enforcement of fine-grained (weak) consistency guarantees in distributed &#8220;NoSQL&#8221; databases and also worked on an end-to-end testing framework for programs running on such systems. He recently developed an idea to repair concurrency bugs present in aforementioned programs, solely by modifying the underlying data-model and without incurring additional run-time checks. He considers himself an existentialist and is not very good at abstracting himself via common human languages. He enjoys having long walks in the nature and playing music. He is very excited to be a part of PROSE team!\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-30\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-30\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-29\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2019\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-29\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-30\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Shraddha Barke<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shraddha.png\" alt=\"Shraddha Barke\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a first-year PhD student at UC San Diego in the Programming Systems group advised by Nadia Polikarpova. I am interested in programming languages and formal methods research, with an emphasis on automated program synthesis and verification techniques. My project, SyPhon, is a constraint based synthesis system for learning fully interpretable phonological rules from a set of examples. Currently, I am working with the PROSE team at Microsoft with Gustavo Soares and Alan Leung. I am working on BluePencil, an on-the-fly synthesis system that identifies repetitive changes and automatically suggests transformations that can be applied in other locations. Besides research, I am involved in diversity, equity and inclusion activities &#8211; I am on the board of UCSD&#8217;s GradWIC and DEI committee. I also enjoy hiking, biking and pretty much anything involving being outdoors.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anna Fariha<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/annafariha-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Fariha\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I work at the Database Lab under the supervision of Prof. Alexandra Meliou. My research interest is in the area of data management. Particularly, I am interested in database usability. My recent project was <a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/squid.cs.umass.edu\">SQuID<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>, which is a semantic similarity aware query by example system towards query intent discovery from few user provided examples. In 2018, I was a Research Intern at Microsoft Research, Redmond, in the Data Management, Exploration and Mining (DMX) group and my mentor was Suman Nath. This year, I am working with the PROSE team on data understanding and data-drift detection with Ashish Tiwari and Sumit Gulwani. Outside research, I am interested in piano, hiking, traveling, tv-series, reading books, and music.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Xiang Gao<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/xiang.jpg\" alt=\"Xiang Gao\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tXiang Gao is a Ph.D. student in the School of Computing at National University of Singapore under the supervision of Abhik Roychoudhury. His thesis work is focused on using program analysis, test generation and formal methods to aid users in fixing software bugs and writing programs. He designed techniques to improve the quality of automatically generated programs by automated program repair and program synthesis. He was a Research Intern at Microsoft, where he worked on a project to use semi-supervised program synthesis for program transformations with the PROSE team, Gustavo Soares, Arjun Radhakrishna, and Sumit Gulwani.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Austin Henley<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/austin.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Henley\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee researching software engineering and human-computer interaction. I design and build more usable software development tools by applying human-computer interaction methodologies to software engineering with the goal of increasing developer productivity. Recently, I have been integrating predictive models into development environments in the form of recommendation systems and intelligent program analyzers. My collaboration with the PROSE Team aims to understand the fundamental barriers that data scientists face and design tools for comprehending data more effectively.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ameya Ketkar<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ameya_Ketkar.jpg\" alt=\"Ameya Ketkar\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am currently pursuing my PhD in computer science at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Since 2017, I have been working under the supervision of Dr. Danny Dig. I am a Java enthusiast, and enjoy developing tools for Java developers. My research interest currently is static code analysis, software refactoring and empirical software engineering. I received my Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University, Mumbai, India. I have worked as a Java developer for Barclays Investment Bank, Barclays Technology Center India, Pune, India, where I contributed in developing their Trade and Transaction Reporting platform.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Nicholas Nelson<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nicholas.png\" alt=\"Nicholas Nelson\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tNicholas Nelson is a 5th year PhD student working with Dr. Anita Sarma at Oregon State University. His research is at the intersection of Software Engineering and HCI, focusing on translating cognitive problem-solving processes into developer tools and environments. Using empirical research methods, he combines insights about how developers work with new developer tools that more closely mirror those efficient natural workflows. His work has been published and recognized with best paper awards at top SE conferences such as ICSE, FSE, and ICSME, and in the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal. He is working with Titus Barik on extending the integrated code\/narrative nature of JupyterLab with insights from observations of common barriers and workflows of data scientists.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Zhengkai Wu<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/zhengkai.jpg\" alt=\"Zhengkai Wu\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tZhengkai Wu is currently a third year PhD student in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with Prof. Tao Xie. His research interest includes involving Artificial Intelligence techniques into traditional software engineering problems like test generation. From now until December, he is working with Vu Le on helping data scientists to make visualization of data easier. Outside research, Zhengkai enjoys playing video games and watching animations. He is also experienced in competitive programming. He competed in ACM-ICPC and got silver medal in World Final representing Peking University during undergrad. He is now the coach of the UIUC ICPC team.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Mengshi Zhang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mengshi_zhang.png\" alt=\"Mengshi Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tMengshi Zhang is a Research Scientist at Facebook. He obtained his masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Before that, he received his bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014. At UT Austin, he was a member of the Software Verification Validation and Testing Laboratory led by Prof. Sarfraz Khurshid. His research interests lie in Automated Software Debugging and Deep Learning.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-32\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-32\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-31\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2018\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-31\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-32\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ian Drosos<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ian_drosos.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Drosos\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Ian Drosos, a 5th year PhD candidate in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. I research Human-Computer Interaction with Philip Guo as part of the Design Lab, where I investigate the designing and implementing of tools to support and enhance the workflows of content creators, developers, data scientists, and learners. While I was a research intern with the PROSE team, we designed and developed Wrex to provide readable program synthesis to data scientists within their computational notebooks.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anders Miltner<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Anders_Miltner.png\" alt=\"Anders Miltner\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tAnders Miltner worked with the PROSE team on IntelliCode Refactoring. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2020. Anders Miltner is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UT Austin, working on synthesizing functional programs and data structures.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-34\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-34\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-33\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2016\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-33\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-34\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Kevin Ellis<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/kevin_ellis.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Ellis\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tAfter his PROSE internship, Kevin Ellis completed his PhD in cognitive science at MIT, then worked as a research scientist at Common Sense Machines, and has now joined the computer science faculty at Cornell. He still synthesizes programs.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Saswat Padhi<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Saswat_Padhi.jpg\" alt=\"Saswat Padhi\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am Saswat, and I interned with PROSE in the summer + fall of 2016. I was working on pattern synthesis and the initial version of Matching.Text. I am currently an applied scientist in the Automated Reasoning Group at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working on invariant synthesis and more generally on scaling software verification. Prior to joining AWS, I graduated from UCLA in 2020 with a PhD in computer science. My research interests span across program verification, program synthesis, and statistical learning.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t<li class=\"m-0\" data-wp-context='{\"id\":\"accordion-content-36\"}' data-wp-init=\"callbacks.init\">\n\t\t<div class=\"accordion-header\">\n\t\t\t<button\n\t\t\t\taria-controls=\"accordion-content-36\"\n\t\t\t\tclass=\"btn btn-collapse\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--aria-expanded=\"state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-wp-on--click=\"actions.onClick\"\n\t\t\t\tid=\"accordion-button-35\"\n\t\t\t\ttype=\"button\"\n\t\t\t>\n\t\t\t\t2015\t\t\t<\/button>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div\n\t\t\taria-labelledby=\"accordion-button-35\"\n\t\t\tclass=\"msr-accordion__content\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-bind--inert=\"!state.isExpanded\"\n\t\t\tdata-wp-run=\"callbacks.run\"\n\t\t\tid=\"accordion-content-36\"\n\t\t>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"msr-accordion__body\">\n\t\t\t\t<p>\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Dana Drachsler Cohen<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dana_drachsler_cohen.jpg\" alt=\"Dana Drachsler Cohen\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tDana is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion. She interned at MSR in 2015 and worked on automatically converting spreadsheet tables to relational tables.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">John Feser<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/John_Feser.jpg\" alt=\"John Feser\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tI am John Feser, a first year grad student at Rice University, advised by Swarat Chaudhuri. My research is on program synthesis, and this summer, I will be working with the SIP team and the FlashXteam to build a synthesis system for extracting and analyzing data from log files. In my free time I like biking, hiking, and cooking.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Thorsten Tarrach<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Thorsten_Tarrach.jpg\" alt=\"Thorsten Tarrach\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tThorsten interned at MSR in 2015 and worked on the improvement of the FlashFill synthesis algorithm in Excel, experimenting with different machine learning techniques. After his internship he returned to the Institute of Science and Technology Austria to complete his PhD. He is currently working as a Research Engineer at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Xinyu Wang<\/h4>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-grid \">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ms-row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-4-24\" >\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Xinyu_Wang.png\" alt=\"Xinyu Wang\" width=\"200\" \/>\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div  class=\"m-col-20-24\" >\n\t\tXinyu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and computer science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He obtained his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and was a researcher in the PROSE team until 2020. His research interests include programming languages, formal methods, and software engineering.\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>We have the following openings and would like to invite strong candidates to apply:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"research-fellowship-prose\">Research&nbsp;Fellowship&nbsp;Opportunity in AI-driven&nbsp;Program Synthesis (in India)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NOTE: We still need to hire 2 research fellows. Please send your application to prose-jobs@microsoft.com<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>99% of people who own computers do not know how to program, and even experts often struggle to code accurately. Through program synthesis, a new frontier in AI, we can help everyone generate programs that accomplish their tasks faster and more accurately, from users who have never written a line of code to professional developers. Advances in symbolic and neural methods, such as large language models, are accelerating the pace at which we can push the state-of-the-art in this area. The PROSE team develops state&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;art program synthesis systems and ships these innovations through&nbsp;flagship&nbsp;Microsoft products&nbsp;like Excel, Visual Studio, PowerQuery, PowerShell, and SQL Server Management Studio.&nbsp;Our work is characterized by building on fundamental insights in both logical reasoning and machine learning and combining them in unique ways to synthesize programs (or solutions to tasks that can be framed as programs). This approach has been recognized with regular&nbsp;papers at&nbsp;top-tier conferences in the AI, machine learning, programming languages, and software engineering communities;&nbsp;a few of them won&nbsp;best paper&nbsp;and test-of-time awards. Our&nbsp;team&nbsp;provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and&nbsp;real-world impact, solving customer problems&nbsp;at a global scale. To learn more about approach and culture, see this talk: \u201c<a class=\"msr-external-link glyph-append glyph-append-open-in-new-tab glyph-append-xsmall\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nam06.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DMNlVRBLMoCU&data=05%7C01%7Cshersh%40microsoft.com%7C02dadc3dfd4a45bab44008db6d231841%7C72f988bf86f141af91ab2d7cd011db47%7C1%7C0%7C638223769737300490%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=qjjIsFWGVsT3hbf8WWFrsWnUMXrzGVQYQyNO1uF%2BeL4%3D&reserved=0\">Art of doing disruptive research<span class=\"sr-only\"> (opens in new tab)<\/span><\/a>\u201d. The goal of the research fellowship program is to provide fellows with an opportunity to build their research and engineering skills in a unique industrial research environment. Fellows join with our team to explore open research problems (guided by the team\u2019s product partnerships), develop state-of-the-art techniques to address these challenges, publish their results in top conferences, and implement their contributions in features that ship in real products. To support these goals, fellows are paired with experienced researchers as mentors and offered weekly workshop training, with a rotating focus on critical areas such as skill building, engineering mentorship, research mentorship, and communication\/story telling. The research fellowship program is a 1 year appointment, with a possibility to renew in some cases for a second year and in fewer cases provide longer term opportunities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Qualifications:<\/strong>&nbsp;We are looking&nbsp;for&nbsp;India-based&nbsp;candidates&nbsp;to work on projects at the cutting edge of machine learning and software. Undergraduates or&nbsp;masters students who are finishing up their degrees&nbsp;are welcome to apply. Some desirable qualifications are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Proficient&nbsp;programming skills and an interest in learning to write production-quality code<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Excellent communication skills and an interest in working with a multi-disciplinary team<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Background in machine learning with an interest in learning its applications to programs<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prior exposure to popular neural network development toolkits such as PyTorch, Tensorflow, Jax, or similar or a keen interest in learning to use these<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>A&nbsp;keen&nbsp;interest in combining research and engineering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Contact:<\/strong>&nbsp;To apply,&nbsp;send an email to&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:prose-jobs@microsoft.com\">prose-jobs@microsoft.com<\/a>. Please send a CV and optionally a&nbsp;few paragraphs&nbsp;on your aspirations and why you&nbsp;are&nbsp;interested in this opportunity. Please include &#8220;Research Fellowship Application&#8221; in the subject. While we would like to receive applications all year round, we are unable to respond to each application. 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& research fellows","content":"[accordion]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"2022\"]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yasharth Bajpai<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yasharth.jpg\" alt=\"Yasharth Bajpai\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a research fellow in the Microsoft PROSE team. I am a senior undergraduate at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science &amp; engineering. I am interested in programming languages, software engineering, and computer systems. Currently, I am working with the BluePencil team, creating AI experiences for developers using program synthesis. Besides computer science, I am also excited about linguistics and economics. At leisure, I like listening to music (I am a vocalist, myself). Moreover, I like binge-watching TV series and movies, and following up with world affairs.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Bhavya Chopra<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Bhavya_Chopra.png\" alt=\"Bhavya Chopra\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI have recently graduated as a computer science and design engineer from Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIITD), India. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow, and will be working on AI for programming education. I am passionate about HCI and the design of interactive and accessible systems, and am currently exploring program analysis. In my spare time, I enjoy swimming, baking, and learning photography.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Abishai Ebenezer<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Abishai-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"Abishai Ebenezer\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\n\r\nI recently completed my BTech in computer science at PES University, Bangalore (2022). My interests in computers mainly revolve around deep learning. Being a part of the team at Microsoft PROSE as a research fellow, I am working on a project involving program repair of formulas for Excel and PowerApps. Prior to this, I was an intern at Microsoft Research (MSR) working on using graph neural networks to improve code-reviewer recommendations in large code repositories. I love playing sports \u2013 especially football, cricket and foosball. Other than that, I enjoy most food and love reading.\r\n\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyanshu Gupta<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/priyanshu.png\" alt=\"Priyanshu Gupta\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am Priyanshu, a recent computer science graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I have joined the PROSE Team as a research fellow. My research interests lie in machine learning and programming languages. Besides computer science, I enjoy reading about biology, ancient history and anthropology.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Saksham Gupta<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Saksham_Gupta.jpg\" alt=\"Saksham Gupta\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI recently completed my degree in CS from VIT Vellore. I will work on improving Power Automate as a research fellow at PROSE. Before joining PROSE, I spent my time writing code for Prodigal, a cool start-up revolutionizing debt collection. My passion for Tech, Education, and Edtech during school inspired me to work on Edtech research at CMU and tackle Educational inequity with Wave Learning Festival. Outside of work, I love running, lifting, and watching movies.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Michael James<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Michael_James.png\" alt=\"Michael James\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nMichael is a 4th year PhD student at UC San Diego. He works on program synthesizers and how people use them. He has worked on a program synthesizer for the Haskell programming language. He has run user studies to understand how programmers understand and interact with code from program synthesizers. His research goal is to make synthesizers more accessible and easier to use. Outside of his research, you can find him on his bike or in the ceramics studio.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Harshit Joshi<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/harshit_joshi.jpg\" alt=\"Harshit Joshi\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI have recently completed my bachelor's from the University of Delhi, India. Previously, I was interning and then working full time with a German startup on entity resolution and master data management. My academic and professional interest ranges from applications of deep learning in healthcare to societal computing, intending to improve \"ease-of-working\" for millions. I am a football nerd and wouldn't mind discussing the failing tactics of Barcelona in length over Asian food. Like most engineers, I heavily rely on caffeine and enjoy tea over the mountains while adoring the sunset.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Avishree Khare<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Avishree_Khare.jpg\" alt=\"Avishree Khare\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nHi! I am Avishree Khare. I recently joined the PROSE team as a research fellow and would be working on employing ML for code edits. Prior to this, I was a Software Engineer at Google India where I worked on Capacity Planning for Cloud Storage. Last year, I graduated from BITS Pilani Goa campus with a degree in Computer Science. I am interested in everything Computer Science and am truly very excited to delve deeper into Program Synthesis and its applications! My other interests include running, teaching, and occasionally, writing.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anirudh Khatry<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Anirudh_Khatry.jpg\" alt=\"Anirudh Khatry\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI have completed my Bachelor's in Information Technology from VJTI, Mumbai. My interests lie in building robust machine learning systems and formal methods. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow and will be working on improving user experience using program synthesis in the Data Wrangler effort. Before this, I was working with the AI meets Program Synthesis group at Microsoft Research, India on heterogeneous data extraction tasks. Besides computer science, I love playing the guitar and practicing mixed martial arts.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Chethan Mahadevaswamy<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chethan_M.jpg\" alt=\"Chethan Mahadevaswamy\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI have completed my undergraduate studies at National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India, in electronics and communications engineering. I am interested in programming languages, learned embedding for code, and the HCI aspect of programming. I am very excited to work in the AI for programming education project. We are currently working on building intelligent and personalized tutoring tools to help teach programming better. Apart from this, I am an avid RC hobbyist and I love to travel.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Siba Smarak Panigrahi<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Siba-Smarak-Panigrahi.jpg\" alt=\"Siba Smarak Panigrahi\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am Siba Smarak Panigrahi, a final-year undergraduate at the department of computer science and engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. I am from Odisha, a state in eastern India. I have joined the PROSE Team as a research fellow. Before joining, I have worked on projects involving pre-trained language models across various NLP tasks and bias in computer vision. At a high level, I am always curious about explainable and interpretable ML\/AI. Further, I am a chess enthusiast and regularly write small fictions spanning different genres.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Rajaswa Patil<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/display-picture-rajaswa-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Rajaswa Patil\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am Rajaswa, a Research Fellow at the PROSE team. Currently, I am working on the Blue-Pencil project, which focuses on developing assistive modeless program synthesis systems. My research interests lie in Artificial Intelligence, Computational Linguistics, and Formal Languages. I have completed my bachelors degree in Electrical &amp; Electronics engineering from BITS Pilani (Goa Campus), India. Besides my professional research interests, I also love to spend time reading books, hitting the gym, and participating in education efforts for technology. I am also occasionally curious about behavioral science, economics, and anthropology.[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Het Shah<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Het_Shah.jpg\" alt=\"Het Shah\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am Het Shah, a recent computer science undergraduate from BITS Pilani, Goa, India. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow to explore program synthesis. Previously, I worked as a research intern at Microsoft Research, India. My research goal is to look at various ways to represent data efficiently. Outside of research, I love to play video games, binge shows, and visit and learn about new places and cultures. \r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yang Shi<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Yang_shi.jpg\" alt=\"Yang Shi\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a third year PhD student at North Carolina State University, advised by Thomas Price in the HINTS lab. My research stands on the intersection of computing education and programming language analysis. I have been working towards building data-driven methods for representing student programming code to enhance the ability of intelligent tutoring systems and benefit the student modeling process. \r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anjali Singh<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Anjali-Singh.jpg\" alt=\"Anjali Singh\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a PhD candidate at the University of Michigan, School of Information. My research focuses on the use of human and machine intelligence to improve introductory data science education. Prior to this, I worked at IBM Research Labs, India, and graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, in 2017, with a Master's + Bachelor's degree in mathematics and computing. In my spare time, I love to dance, listen to music and travel.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ananya Singha<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Ananya_Singha.png\" alt=\"Ananya Singha\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am Ananya Singha, a recent graduate from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal with a major in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a minor in Data Science. I have joined the Microsoft PROSE Team as a research fellow and will be working on enhancing the user experience on PowerApps and Excel. My interest lies in deep learning and the interaction of humans with machine models. I have previously worked in fairness in CV, Graph Neural Network, and Natural Language Processing. As for my hobbies, I like painting, learning new musical instruments to play, and listening to music. \r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Mukul Singh<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Mukul-Singh-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Mukul Singh\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a final-year undergraduate at the computer science department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India, and have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow. I am interested in machine learning and programming languages and believe that the intersection of AI and programming can allow people to perform sophisticated tasks without specialized software development knowledge. I like participating in volunteer activities especially teaching underprivileged kids. I have been associated with a few NGOs and like spending my time planning different activities for them. Apart from this I am an avid reader and love playing video games. \r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Sushant Sondhi<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Sushant_Sondhi.jpeg\" alt=\"Sushant Sondhi\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a final year undergraduate, at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, and am majoring in computer science and engineering. I have joined the PROSE team as a research fellow. My research interests lie in the area of deep learning and programming languages, and I have previously worked in the area of extreme classification. Furthermore, I like to watch anime and TV series in my leisure time. I am also an avid reader and my favorite genres include science fiction, crime thrillers, and finance.  \r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyan Vaithilingam<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Priyan-Vaithilingam.jpg\" alt=\"Priyan Vaithilingam\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a second-year PhD student working on the intersection of human-computer interaction and program synthesis, advised by Dr. Elena Glassman from Harvard. Fun fact: this is my fifth \"first day\" at Microsoft. Almost every time I get a Microsoft labeled bottle, but remote work prevented it this time.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Jialu Zhang<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jialu_Zhang.png\" alt=\"Jialu Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a rising sixth-year CS PhD student at Yale University, advised by Prof. Ruzica Piskac. I received my B.S. degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (IEEE Honor Class), advised by Prof. Xinbing Wang. My research interests are program analysis, automatic debugging, and ML-based software engineering. Currently I am focusing on automated program repair. Previously, I worked on detecting misconfigurations in systems. In my leisure time, I spent most of my time playing table tennis. I was a professional table tennis player before, and I am looking forward to playing with you someday.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yuhao Zhang<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yuhao.jpg\" alt=\"Yuhao Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a third-year PhD student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. I am now doing research at madPL group, supervised by Loris D'Antoni and Aws Albarghouthi. I received my B.S. in computer science at Peking University (PKU) in 2019, supervised by Yingfei Xiong. My main research interest is software engineering and programming languages, especially program analysis and program synthesis. One goal of my research is to develop formal methods for trustworthy deep learning. Specifically, I am interested in developing formal methods to certify and improve the robustness of neural networks and verify the correctness of deep learning software. I am also interested in combining program synthesis and deep learning to generate programs in an interpretable and certifiable way.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"2021\"]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yasharth Bajpai<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yasharth.jpg\" alt=\"Yasharth Bajpai\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a research fellow in the Microsoft PROSE team. I am a senior undergraduate at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science &amp; engineering. I am interested in programming languages, software engineering, and computer systems. Currently, I am working with the BluePencil team, creating AI experiences for developers using program synthesis. Besides computer science, I am also excited about linguistics and economics. At leisure, I like listening to music (I am a vocalist, myself). Moreover, I like binge-watching TV series and movies, and following up with world affairs.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Rohan Bavishi<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/rohan.jpg\" alt=\"Rohan Bavishi\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am Rohan Bavishi, a 4th year PhD candidate at UC Berkeley advised by Koushik Sen. My research has focused on building synthesis-powered productivity tools for data-scientists, providing automation of key tasks such as data-prep or table-transformations and data visualization, given simple and easy-to-provide queries or specifications from the user. These tools leverage state-of-the-art machine learning models such as graph neural networks and use advanced code mining techniques to harness the power of open-source repositories of code. Beyond research, I enjoy playing the piano, reading non-fiction, designing video games, and cooking.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyanshu Gupta<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/priyanshu.png\" alt=\"Priyanshu Gupta\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am Priyanshu, a recent computer science graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. I have joined the PROSE Team as a research fellow. My research interests lie in machine learning and programming languages. Besides computer science, I enjoy reading about biology, ancient history and anthropology.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Harshit Joshi<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/harshit_joshi.jpg\" alt=\"Harshit Joshi\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI have recently completed my bachelor's from the University of Delhi, India. Previously, I was interning and then working full time with a German startup on entity resolution and master data management. My academic and professional interest ranges from applications of deep learning in healthcare to societal computing, intending to improve \"ease-of-working\" for millions. I am a football nerd and wouldn't mind discussing the failing tactics of Barcelona in length over Asian food. Like most engineers, I heavily rely on caffeine and enjoy tea over the mountains while adoring the sunset.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Chethan Mahadevaswamy<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Chethan_M.jpg\" alt=\"Chethan Mahadevaswamy\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI have completed my undergraduate studies at National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, India, in electronics and communications engineering. I am interested in programming languages, learned embedding for code, and the HCI aspect of programming. I am very excited to work in the AI for programming education project. We are currently working on building intelligent and personalized tutoring tools to help teach programming better. Apart from this, I am an avid RC hobbyist and I love to travel.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Adithya Murali<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/adithya.jpg\" alt=\"Adithya Murali\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a 4th (read: 100th) year PhD student at UIUC where I think about problems at the intersection of deep learning and logic learning. In particular I am interested in learning frameworks that can glean aggregations of features and associate them to concrete symbols that can then be manipulated using a higher-order logical\/programmatic layer. I am trying to figure out what I stand for in terms of AI philosophy but I am always open to learning about new mathematical formulations and pursue problems that aren't in the horizon of what seems possible in the next five years. My time at Microsoft so far has been a blinding revelation of what it means to keep an eye on building useful products, and I am loving every minute of it! When I am not working or worrying about working, I am singing, biking, or making up bad puns and malaphors. Hit me up if you want to talk about Responsible AI, Neurodivergence, Thriller Movies, or The Office.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Gabriel Poesia Reis e Silva<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gabriel.jpg\" alt=\"Gabriel Poesia Reis e Silva\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a second-year PhD student at Stanford, coming from Brazil, where I graduated with a MSc in Compilers at UFMG. My research has focused on developing useful forms of human-computer interaction where the burden of specification doesn't fall entirely on users. I believe that modern tools developed in the AI and Programming Languages communities can allow the average computer user to have the productivity benefits of automation that currently require programming knowledge. Besides research, I enjoy road biking, playing and making music, cooking, reading, and writing prose poetry. My second name (Poesia) means \"Poetry\" in Portuguese, so being part of PROSE is an interesting coincidence.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Priyan Vaithilingam<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Priyan-Vaithilingam.jpg\" alt=\"Priyan Vaithilingam\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a second-year PhD student working on the intersection of human-computer interaction and program synthesis, advised by Dr. Elena Glassman from Harvard. Fun fact: this is my fifth \"first day\" at Microsoft. Almost every time I get a Microsoft labeled bottle, but remote work prevented it this time.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Yuhao Zhang<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/yuhao.jpg\" alt=\"Yuhao Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a Research Intern in the PROSE team. My main research interest is software engineering and programming languages, especially program analysis and program synthesis. In the PROSE team, I am focused on developing program synthesis technologies to improve edit suggestions for software developers. I am a second-year PhD student in computer science at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Madison. One goal of my PhD research is to develop formal methods for trustworthy deep learning. Specifically, I am interested in developing formal methods to certify and improve the robustness of neural networks and verify the correctness of deep learning software.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"2020\"]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Wode \"Nimo\" Ni<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nimo.jpg\" alt=\"Wode Nimo Ni\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nWode \"Nimo\" Ni is a 2nd year Ph.D. student at CMU working with Ken Koedinger and Josh Sunshine. He is mainly interested in human-computer interaction, programming languages, and building usable tools that help people to understand and learn better. He works to bridge the gap between novices and experts by (1) lowering the barrier of powerful tools and (2) encoding expertise and transferring it to novices. In the past few years, he has been working on theories and tools for diagramming. Examples include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.cmu.edu\/~woden\/assets\/chi-20-natural-diagramming.pdf\">Natural Diagramming<\/a>, a set of design guidelines for effective diagramming tools, and <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/penrose\/penrose\">Penrose<\/a>, a diagramming system that lets you create beautiful diagrams by just typing math notations in plain text. When he is not working, he is usually at a pool table, playing a yo-yo, or dancing. Nimo is known to spend an inestimable amount of time playing pool, so he is always up for a pool game.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Kia Rahmani<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/kia.png\" alt=\"Kia Rahmani\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nKia is a PhD candidate at Purdue university working under the supervision of Suresh Jagannathan and Benjamin Delaware. His main research interests are compilation, synthesis and testing of data-intensive programs. Specifically, he has developed a run-time tool for enforcement of fine-grained (weak) consistency guarantees in distributed \"NoSQL\" databases and also worked on an end-to-end testing framework for programs running on such systems. He recently developed an idea to repair concurrency bugs present in aforementioned programs, solely by modifying the underlying data-model and without incurring additional run-time checks. He considers himself an existentialist and is not very good at abstracting himself via common human languages. He enjoys having long walks in the nature and playing music. He is very excited to be a part of PROSE team!\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"2019\"]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Shraddha Barke<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/shraddha.png\" alt=\"Shraddha Barke\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a first-year PhD student at UC San Diego in the Programming Systems group advised by Nadia Polikarpova. I am interested in programming languages and formal methods research, with an emphasis on automated program synthesis and verification techniques. My project, SyPhon, is a constraint based synthesis system for learning fully interpretable phonological rules from a set of examples. Currently, I am working with the PROSE team at Microsoft with Gustavo Soares and Alan Leung. I am working on BluePencil, an on-the-fly synthesis system that identifies repetitive changes and automatically suggests transformations that can be applied in other locations. Besides research, I am involved in diversity, equity and inclusion activities - I am on the board of UCSD's GradWIC and DEI committee. I also enjoy hiking, biking and pretty much anything involving being outdoors.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anna Fariha<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/annafariha-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anna Fariha\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am a PhD candidate at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. I work at the Database Lab under the supervision of Prof. Alexandra Meliou. My research interest is in the area of data management. Particularly, I am interested in database usability. My recent project was <a href=\"http:\/\/squid.cs.umass.edu\">SQuID<\/a>, which is a semantic similarity aware query by example system towards query intent discovery from few user provided examples. In 2018, I was a Research Intern at Microsoft Research, Redmond, in the Data Management, Exploration and Mining (DMX) group and my mentor was Suman Nath. This year, I am working with the PROSE team on data understanding and data-drift detection with Ashish Tiwari and Sumit Gulwani. Outside research, I am interested in piano, hiking, traveling, tv-series, reading books, and music.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Xiang Gao<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/xiang.jpg\" alt=\"Xiang Gao\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nXiang Gao is a Ph.D. student in the School of Computing at National University of Singapore under the supervision of Abhik Roychoudhury. His thesis work is focused on using program analysis, test generation and formal methods to aid users in fixing software bugs and writing programs. He designed techniques to improve the quality of automatically generated programs by automated program repair and program synthesis. He was a Research Intern at Microsoft, where he worked on a project to use semi-supervised program synthesis for program transformations with the PROSE team, Gustavo Soares, Arjun Radhakrishna, and Sumit Gulwani.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Austin Henley<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/austin.jpg\" alt=\"Austin Henley\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee researching software engineering and human-computer interaction. I design and build more usable software development tools by applying human-computer interaction methodologies to software engineering with the goal of increasing developer productivity. Recently, I have been integrating predictive models into development environments in the form of recommendation systems and intelligent program analyzers. My collaboration with the PROSE Team aims to understand the fundamental barriers that data scientists face and design tools for comprehending data more effectively.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ameya Ketkar<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Ameya_Ketkar.jpg\" alt=\"Ameya Ketkar\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am currently pursuing my PhD in computer science at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA Since 2017, I have been working under the supervision of Dr. Danny Dig. I am a Java enthusiast, and enjoy developing tools for Java developers. My research interest currently is static code analysis, software refactoring and empirical software engineering. I received my Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University, Mumbai, India. I have worked as a Java developer for Barclays Investment Bank, Barclays Technology Center India, Pune, India, where I contributed in developing their Trade and Transaction Reporting platform.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Nicholas Nelson<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nicholas.png\" alt=\"Nicholas Nelson\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nNicholas Nelson is a 5th year PhD student working with Dr. Anita Sarma at Oregon State University. His research is at the intersection of Software Engineering and HCI, focusing on translating cognitive problem-solving processes into developer tools and environments. Using empirical research methods, he combines insights about how developers work with new developer tools that more closely mirror those efficient natural workflows. His work has been published and recognized with best paper awards at top SE conferences such as ICSE, FSE, and ICSME, and in the Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE) journal. He is working with Titus Barik on extending the integrated code\/narrative nature of JupyterLab with insights from observations of common barriers and workflows of data scientists.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Zhengkai Wu<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/zhengkai.jpg\" alt=\"Zhengkai Wu\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nZhengkai Wu is currently a third year PhD student in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign working with Prof. Tao Xie. His research interest includes involving Artificial Intelligence techniques into traditional software engineering problems like test generation. From now until December, he is working with Vu Le on helping data scientists to make visualization of data easier. Outside research, Zhengkai enjoys playing video games and watching animations. He is also experienced in competitive programming. He competed in ACM-ICPC and got silver medal in World Final representing Peking University during undergrad. He is now the coach of the UIUC ICPC team.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Mengshi Zhang<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/mengshi_zhang.png\" alt=\"Mengshi Zhang\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nMengshi Zhang is a Research Scientist at Facebook. He obtained his masters and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017 and 2019, respectively. Before that, he received his bachelors degree in Electronic Engineering from Tsinghua University in 2014. At UT Austin, he was a member of the Software Verification Validation and Testing Laboratory led by Prof. Sarfraz Khurshid. His research interests lie in Automated Software Debugging and Deep Learning.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"2018\"]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Ian Drosos<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/ian_drosos.jpg\" alt=\"Ian Drosos\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am Ian Drosos, a 5th year PhD candidate in Cognitive Science at UC San Diego. I research Human-Computer Interaction with Philip Guo as part of the Design Lab, where I investigate the designing and implementing of tools to support and enhance the workflows of content creators, developers, data scientists, and learners. While I was a research intern with the PROSE team, we designed and developed Wrex to provide readable program synthesis to data scientists within their computational notebooks.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Anders Miltner<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Anders_Miltner.png\" alt=\"Anders Miltner\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nAnders Miltner worked with the PROSE team on IntelliCode Refactoring. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2020. Anders Miltner is currently a postdoctoral fellow at UT Austin, working on synthesizing functional programs and data structures.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"2016\"]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Kevin Ellis<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/kevin_ellis.jpg\" alt=\"Kevin Ellis\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nAfter his PROSE internship, Kevin Ellis completed his PhD in cognitive science at MIT, then worked as a research scientist at Common Sense Machines, and has now joined the computer science faculty at Cornell. He still synthesizes programs.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Saswat Padhi<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Saswat_Padhi.jpg\" alt=\"Saswat Padhi\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am Saswat, and I interned with PROSE in the summer + fall of 2016. I was working on pattern synthesis and the initial version of Matching.Text. I am currently an applied scientist in the Automated Reasoning Group at Amazon Web Services (AWS), working on invariant synthesis and more generally on scaling software verification. Prior to joining AWS, I graduated from UCLA in 2020 with a PhD in computer science. My research interests span across program verification, program synthesis, and statistical learning.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"2015\"]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Dana Drachsler Cohen<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/dana_drachsler_cohen.jpg\" alt=\"Dana Drachsler Cohen\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nDana is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion. She interned at MSR in 2015 and worked on automatically converting spreadsheet tables to relational tables.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">John Feser<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/John_Feser.jpg\" alt=\"John Feser\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nI am John Feser, a first year grad student at Rice University, advised by Swarat Chaudhuri. My research is on program synthesis, and this summer, I will be working with the SIP team and the FlashX\r\nteam to build a synthesis system for extracting and analyzing data from log files. In my free time I like biking, hiking, and cooking.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Thorsten Tarrach<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Thorsten_Tarrach.jpg\" alt=\"Thorsten Tarrach\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nThorsten interned at MSR in 2015 and worked on the improvement of the FlashFill synthesis algorithm in Excel, experimenting with different machine learning techniques. After his internship he returned to the Institute of Science and Technology Austria to complete his PhD. He is currently working as a Research Engineer at the Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[row]\r\n<h4 style=\"font-weight: bold\">Xinyu Wang<\/h4>\r\n[\/row]\r\n[row]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-4-24\"]\r\n<img class=\"alignleft wp-image-745555\" src=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/Xinyu_Wang.png\" alt=\"Xinyu Wang\" width=\"200\" \/>\r\n[\/column]\r\n[column class=\"m-col-20-24\"]\r\nXinyu is currently an Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and computer science Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He obtained his PhD from the University of Texas at Austin in 2019 and was a researcher in the PROSE team until 2020. His research interests include programming languages, formal methods, and software engineering.\r\n[\/column]\r\n[\/row]\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[\/accordion]"},{"id":1,"name":"Career opportunities","content":"[accordion]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Internship Opportunity \u2013 Future of Work \u2013 Applying Large Language Models to Spreadsheets\"]\r\n<h2 id=\"internship-prose\">Internship Opportunity \u2013 Future of Work \u2013 Applying Large Language Models to Spreadsheets<\/h2>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nSpreadsheets are the world's most widely used programming technology and the definitive low-code and no-code platform. The recent success of large language models (LLMs) creates an opportunity to take a qualitative step forward, to extend dramatically the reach of what end users can do with spreadsheets.\r\n\r\nWe are hiring multiple interns to join an ambitious, multidisciplinary research team on the future of work, and spreadsheets or computational notebooks in particular. We are a global team with members across Microsoft including <a href=\"https:\/\/aka.ms\/CalcIntel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Calc Intelligence<\/a> (MSR Cambridge), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/research-software-engineering-rise\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RiSE<\/a> (MSR Redmond), Excel and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/group\/prose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PROSE<\/a> (Developer Division). Some of the interns will be co-mentored by a member of the Excel team.\r\n\r\nThe interns will join us for summer 2023 in Cambridge UK, with dates being negotiable. The exact internship projects will be chosen to fit the expertise of successful applicants. We are interested in a broad range of areas including:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Synthesizing formulas and data transformations via LLMs, including prompt engineering, decomposition, and chain of thought reasoning<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Improving the experience of authoring and debugging formulas<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Improving the experience of reading and understanding spreadsheets<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Using insights from type systems, static analysis, program synthesis and machine learning to debug and repair generated computations by LLMs<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Using large language models to provide intelligent assistance to spreadsheet users<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nWe seek interns with expertise in one or more of the following research areas: programming-languages, HCI and user experience, machine learning. There is a genuine possibility that your work could have real-world impact. Past interns have been heavily involved in impactful projects that have transitioned into products. Our team's impact on many millions of customers features in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/blog\/innovation-by-and-beyond-the-numbers-a-history-of-research-collaborations-in-excel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">history of research<\/a> collaborations with Microsoft Excel, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/garage\/wall-of-fame\/calc-ts-in-excel-for-the-web\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Microsoft Wall of Fame<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/2453\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">XKCD<\/a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Responsibilities:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>For interns of all disciplines:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Work in a multi-disciplinary team<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Generate insights that fuel ideation<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Write and present your findings in technical documents or research papers<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>For interns in an HCI\/design discipline:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Conduct mixed methods user research (e.g., surveys, controlled experiments, ethnography, interviews etc.)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Translate findings into practical design insights<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Deploy prototype technologies and evaluate their impact on user practice<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li>For interns in a programming languages\/machine learning discipline:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Invent technical solutions to enable new and better user experiences<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Develop and iterate on prototypes in collaboration with our research and engineering teams, building on our existing platforms<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Qualifications:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Must be enrolled in or have recently completed a PhD in one or more of the following research areas: human-computer interaction, end-user programming, human-factors in programming languages, programming languages and compilers, including program synthesis, or artificial intelligence applied to code or knowledge. For HCI\/design applications we will consider outstanding Master-level students with research experience.<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience or interest in working in the spreadsheet domain.<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience or interest in doing LLM research.<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"4\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience of software prototyping at various levels of fidelity, from sketches and wireframes to interactive prototypes preferred.<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"5\" data-aria-level=\"1\">One or two papers at top HCI, EUP, PL, ML conferences or journals is preferred, but not essential. A writing sample of unpublished work should be included if a publication is not available.<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"6\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Good spoken and written English.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong> Please apply by submitting an application to: <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/us\/en\/job\/1496651\/Internship-Opportunity-Future-of-Work-Applying-Large-Language-Models-to%C2%A0Spreadsheets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internship Opportunity: Future of Work \u2013 Applying Large Language Models to\u202fSpreadsheets in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom | Research, Applied, &amp; Data Sciences at Microsoft<\/a>.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Research Fellowship Opportunity in AI-driven Program Synthesis (in India)\"]\r\n<h2 id=\"research-fellowship-prose\">Research\u00a0Fellowship\u00a0Opportunity in AI-driven\u00a0Program Synthesis (in India)<\/h2>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n99% of people who own computers do not know how to program, and even experts often struggle to code accurately. Through a new frontier in AI, program synthesis, we can help everyone generate programs that accomplish their tasks faster and more accurately, from users who have never written a line of code to professional developers. In program synthesis the computer programs itself. The user just needs to tell the synthesizer what they want\u2014via examples or just in natural language\u2014and the synthesizer generates the desired program. This provides huge productivity boosts in domains from data preparation to code editing.\r\n\r\nThe PROSE team is advancing the state\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0art in program synthesis and shipping these innovations through\u00a0flagship\u00a0Microsoft products\u00a0like Excel, Visual Studio, PowerQuery, PowerShell, and SQL Server Management Studio.\u00a0PROSE\u00a0has developed a powerful and flexible framework for program synthesis\u00a0that\u00a0leverages\u00a0techniques from\u00a0both logical reasoning and machine\u00a0learning and\u00a0combines them in unique ways\u00a0to synthesize programs automatically.\u00a0This approach has been recognized with regular\u00a0papers at\u00a0top-tier conferences;\u00a0a few of them won\u00a0best paper\u00a0and test-of-time awards.\r\n\r\nOur\u00a0team\u00a0provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and\u00a0real-world impact, solving customer problems\u00a0at a global scale.\u00a0To learn more about our approach\u00a0and culture\u00a0see this\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=421gU482xFE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">award talk<\/a> on the story behind\u00a0one of the team's early innovations, the Flash\u00a0Fill feature in Excel. Also check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/indiaacm\/videos\/322195136019043\/?t=4700\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this keynote<\/a> to learn more about the program.\r\n\r\nThe PROSE team offers extensive training to the RFs through a weekly workshop, with a rotating focus on the four critical areas of skill building, engineering mentorship, research mentorship, and communication\/story telling. Together, these workshops address many important topics such as:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Tech Industry Effectiveness and Career Development:<\/strong> Team culture\/philosophy, Leveraging Microsoft resources, Core competencies for research and engineering, Setting short\/medium-term career goals, Making it easy for others to give you feedback<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Engineering Skills:<\/strong> Development environment setup, Code reviewing, Collaborative coding, Designing code for testability, How to build a product, Product lifecycle, Software architecture, Benchmarking, Anonymization, Compliance<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Research Skills:<\/strong> Paper presentation and discussion, Brainstorming ideas, Research philosophies, Paper writing and reviewing<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Communication:<\/strong> Storytelling, Presentation, Public speaking, Panel discussion, Inclusive and productive meetings, Influencing for impact, Writing effective emails, Networking<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Qualifications:<\/strong> We are looking\u00a0for\u00a0India-based\u00a0candidates\u00a0to work on\u00a0a variety of\u00a0projects related to\u00a0program synthesis\u00a0for\u00a0various\u00a0applications.\u00a0This will be a 1-year appointment, extensible for another year\u00a0with potential to develop into a <strong>full-time research track appointment<\/strong>. Undergraduates or\u00a0masters students who are finishing up their degrees\u00a0are welcome to apply.\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Strong\u00a0programming skills<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Excellent communication skills<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Background in\u00a0programming\u00a0languages\/compilers or\u00a0machine\u00a0learning\/AI<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"3\" data-aria-level=\"1\">A\u00a0keen\u00a0interest in both research and engineering<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong> To apply,\u00a0send an email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:prose-jobs@microsoft.com\">prose-jobs@microsoft.com<\/a>. Please send a CV and optionally a\u00a0few paragraphs\u00a0on your aspirations and why you\u00a0are\u00a0interested in this opportunity. While we would like to receive applications all year round, we are unable to respond to each application. If we find your application promising, we will get in touch with you.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/publication\/prose-research-fellowship-program\/\">Learn More and Frequently Asked Questions<\/a><\/strong>\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"HCI Researcher Opportunity at Microsoft (AI-driven Program Synthesis in the PROSE team)\"]\r\n<h2 id=\"hci-researcher-prose\">HCI Researcher Opportunity at Microsoft (AI-driven Program Synthesis in the PROSE team)<\/h2>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nWe invite early-career researchers with a background in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and\/or Software Engineering (SE), with an interest in developer and end-user tools, to apply for a full-time researcher position in the PROSE team at Microsoft.\r\n\r\nThe PROSE team is <strong>advancing the state of the art in program synthesis and shipping these innovations through flagship Microsoft products that impact millions of users worldwide. These products include the world's most popular spreadsheet software Excel, the industry-leading IDE Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, the power platform suite of products including Power BI, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, and other software tools including PowerShell and SQL Server Management Studio. The application domains range from developer productivity, business user low-code\/no-code scenarios to even programming education<\/strong>. To power these features PROSE has developed a powerful and flexible framework for program synthesis that leverages techniques from both logical reasoning and machine learning and combines them in unique ways to synthesize programs automatically. This approach has been recognized with regular papers at top-tier conferences and awards, including best paper and test-of-time awards.\r\n\r\nOur team provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact, solving customer problems at a global scale. Researchers design and carry out the research underlying state-of-the-art systems and work together with world-class engineers to implement these systems in production. To learn more about our approach and culture see this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=421gU482xFE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">award talk<\/a> on the story behind one of the team's early innovations: the Flash Fill feature in Excel.\r\n\r\n<strong>Responsibilities: <\/strong>\r\nAs a PROSE researcher focused on HCI, you will have the opportunity to:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Design and carry out studies with professional developers inside Microsoft and real customers outside of Microsoft<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Design, implement, and experiment with interfaces for state-of-the-art tools across a range of domains<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Identify and develop mixed-methods research opportunities for improving developer and end-user productivity<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Collaborate with and mentor interns and longer-term research fellows<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Qualifications: <\/strong>\r\nWe are looking for a candidate with expertise in Human Computer Interaction and\/or Software Engineering with a focus on human aspects of development. Prospective candidates must have finished or be about to finish their PhD in a relevant area.\r\n\r\n<em>Required Qualifications<\/em>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">PhD (completed or close to completion) in a relevant field<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Research ability demonstrated by a strong publication record in top-tier venues<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Interest not only in publishing research in academic venues, but also delivering products and experiences to customers based on this research<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Preferred Qualifications<\/em>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Ability to develop an original research agenda with a focus on the human aspects of software<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Prior research focused on software engineering and data science tools or programming education is a plus<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Strong communication skills<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Ability to collaborate across our multi-disciplinary research team and other multi-role teams at Microsoft<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Strong programming skills and the desire to build not just prototypes but also production quality software<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong> To apply, send an email to <a href=\"mailto:prose-jobs@microsoft.com\">prose-jobs@microsoft.com<\/a>. Please include a CV and optionally a few paragraphs on your aspirations and why you are interested in this opportunity.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Machine Learning Researcher Opportunity at Microsoft (AI-driven Program Synthesis in the PROSE team)\"]\r\n<h2 id=\"ml-researcher-prose\">Machine Learning Researcher Opportunity at Microsoft (AI-driven Program Synthesis in the PROSE team)<\/h2>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe PROSE team is advancing the state of the art in program synthesis and shipping these innovations through flagship Microsoft products that impact millions of users worldwide.\r\n\r\nThese products include the world's most popular spreadsheet software Excel, the industry-leading IDEs Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code, the power platform suite of products including Power BI, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, and other software tools including Azure Data Studio, Azure Data Monitor, Azure Data Factory, PowerShell, and SQL Server Management Studio. The application domains range from developer productivity, business user low-code\/no-code scenarios to even programming education. To power these features PROSE has developed a powerful and flexible framework for program synthesis that leverages techniques from both logical reasoning and machine learning and combines them in unique ways to synthesize programs automatically. This approach has been recognized with frequent papers at top-tier conferences and awards, including best paper and test-of-time awards.\r\n\r\nWe invite machine learning researchers with an interest in program synthesis, developer\/end-user tools, and high-impact research to apply for a full-time position in the PROSE team at Microsoft.\r\n\r\nOur team provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact, solving customer problems at a global scale. Researchers design and carry out the research underlying state-of-the-art systems and work together with world-class engineers to implement these systems in production. To learn more about our approach and culture see this award talk on the story behind one of the team's early innovations: the Flash Fill feature in Excel.\r\n\r\n<strong>Responsibilities<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAs a machine learning researcher, you will have the opportunity to:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Design and carry out innovative research that integrates various artificial intelligence technologies and delivers features for customer-facing Microsoft products<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Explore the use of state-of-the-art deep learning models in various aspects of program synthesis, such as generating code from natural language, learning efficient search strategies for the huge state space of programs, and learning ranking functions to infer user intent from ambiguous under-specifications<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Adapt and develop techniques that blend symbolic and neural approaches to solve programming-related tasks<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Publish in top-tier academic venues and interact with the broader academic community, for example giving talks about PROSE research<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Collaborate with and mentor interns and longer-term research fellows, with a focus on growing the team's expertise in machine learning<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Required Qualifications<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">PhD (or close to completion, if early career) with a focus on machine learning, deep learning, NLP, or other relevant areas<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">At least 3 publications in a top-tier ML venue (e.g. NeurIPS, ICML, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ICLR, KDD, AISTATS, AAAI)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Preferred Qualifications<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience with at least one large (over 5,000 LOC) software project<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience with at least one popular deep learning framework (e.g. PyTorch, Tensorflow, Keras, JAX)<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Ability to develop an original research agenda, demonstrated by leading at least one publication in a top-tier ML venue<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">At least 2 years of prior research experience in NLP, machine learning, or related areas<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience developing, training, and deploying large modern neural architectures<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Strong communication skills<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary or multi-role teams<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong> To apply, send an email to <a href=\"mailto:prose-jobs@microsoft.com\">prose-jobs@microsoft.com<\/a>. Please include a CV and optionally a few paragraphs on your aspirations and why you are interested in this opportunity.\r\n\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"Senior Researcher\"]\r\n<h2 id=\"senior-researcher-prose\">Senior Researcher<\/h2>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nThe PROSE Team is advancing the state of the art in Program Synthesis and shipping these innovations through flagship Microsoft products that impact millions of users worldwide. These products include the world's most popular spreadsheet software Excel, the industry-leading IDEs Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code. This includes our power platform suite of products including Power BI, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, and other software tools including Azure Data Studio, Azure Data Monitor, Azure Data Factory, PowerShell, and SQL Server Management Studio.\r\n\r\nWe are seeking a Senior Researcher who enjoys working on application domains that range from developer productivity, business user low-code\/no-code scenarios to even programming education. To power these features PROSE has developed a powerful and flexible framework for program synthesis that leverages techniques from both logical reasoning and machine learning and combines them in unique ways to synthesize programs automatically. This approach has been recognized with frequent papers at top-tier conferences and awards, including best paper and test-of-time awards.\r\n\r\nOur team provides a unique opportunity to work at the intersection of cutting-edge AI research and real-world impact, solving customer problems at a global scale. Researchers design and carry out the research underlying state-of-the-art systems and work together with world-class engineers to implement these systems in production. To learn more about our approach and culture see this award talk on the story behind one of the team's early innovations: the Flash Fill feature in Excel.\r\n\r\n<strong>This position is 100% remote friendly offering hybrid work options as well.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>Responsibilities<\/strong>\r\n\r\nAs a researcher, you will have the opportunity to:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Design and carry out innovative research that integrates various artificial intelligence technologies and delivers features for customer-facing Microsoft products<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Design, implement, and experiment across a range of domains, including data wrangling, developer tools, end-user programming, and programming education<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Publish in top-tier academic venues and interact with the broader academic community, for example giving talks about PROSE research<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Collaborate with and mentor interns and longer-term research fellows<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Required Qualifications<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">PhD (or close to completion, if early career) in Computer Science or a relevant field<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">At least 3 publications in top-tier PL\/SE\/HCI\/ML\/DB venues<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience with at least one large (over 5,000 LOC) software project<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience with language models and deep learning<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Preferred Qualifications<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Ability to develop an original research agenda, demonstrated by leading at least one publication in a top-tier PL\/SE\/HCI\/ML\/DB venue (e.g. PLDI, OOPSLA, UIST, CHI, AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, SIGMOD, VLDB, POPL, FSE, ICSE, ASE, EMNLP, NAACL, ACL, and comparable)<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">At least 2 years of prior research experience in related areas, including but not limited to, program synthesis, program repair, program analysis, artificial intelligence, developer\/end-user tooling, human computer interaction, data science<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Strong communication skills<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary or multi-role teams<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/careers.microsoft.com\/us\/en\/job\/1372661\/Sr-Researcher-PROSE-Team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apply here<\/a>\r\n[\/panel]\r\n\r\n[panel header=\"CS Education\/Pedagogy Research Internship Opportunity at Microsoft (AI-driven Program Synthesis in the PROSE team)\"]\r\n<h2 id=\"pedagogy-research-intern-prose\">CS Education\/Pedagogy Research Internship Opportunity at Microsoft (AI-driven Program Synthesis in the PROSE team)<\/h2>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nIn the project <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/research\/project\/ai-for-programming-education\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AI for Programming Education<\/a>, we are looking for an expert in the domain of CS education and learning science to inspire progress grounded in the latest pedagogy and CS-education insight, particularly with an emphasis on intelligent tutoring systems and adjacent tools for learning. Additional expertise in human-computer interaction to operationalize learning theory into usable systems is a plus.\r\n\r\n<strong>Responsibilities<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Design mechanisms to deliver effective feedback messages\/hints for novice programmers that are conducive to learning<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Build explanation frameworks to enable transparent communication between AI-driven Programming tutor and the end-users (students)<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Design and conduct user studies over different prototypes of intelligent tutor for programming education and analyzing the results of the study with the goal of improving the intelligent tutor<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Required Qualifications<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Pursing PhD with a focus on CS education, learning science, human-computer interaction, or other relevant areas<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">At least 1 publication in relevant, top-tier venues (e.g., SIGCSE, EDM, CHI, UIST, CSCW, AIED, etc.)<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Preferred Qualifications<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Ability to develop an original research agenda, demonstrated by leading at least one publication in a top-tier venue<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">At least 2 years of prior research experience in CS Education<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Strong communication skills<\/li>\r\n \t<li data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"1\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\">Experience collaborating across multi-disciplinary or multi-role teams<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<strong>Contact:<\/strong> To apply, send an email to <a href=\"mailto:prose-jobs@microsoft.com\">prose-jobs@microsoft.com<\/a>. 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