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Karina Kohl, Ph.D. student at PUCRS in Brazil, led a joint short paper with us that was accepted to CHASE on the creative problem solving strategies of blind and low vision software developers. Awesome!

Congrats to Anmol, for his first paper (on TeamCAST) and Yu, for her second paper (on the Daily Smirk), both of which were accepted to CSEE&T 2025!

Congrats to Novia and our developer wellbeing team and to Yoonha and the blind and low vision software developer team for each getting a paper accepted to CHI 2025! Sure was a busy day for paper notifications!

Guilherme Pereira (PUCRS, Brazil) and his Ph.D. advisor Rafael Prikladnicki invited us to be part of this fun endeavor studying the adoption of GenAI in a Brazilian company. Sweet deal!

We published a new paper on the potential impacts of Generative AI on Creativity and Software Engineering. Love this paper!

Dinner time!

Welcome Nai-Yu Cheng to the research group.

Congratulations to Leyu Lyu for successfully defending his M.S. thesis!

With Bill Tomlinson, Rebecca Black, and Julie Ferguson, we received a new NSF grant to use AI-driven personalization in sustainability education.

We published a new literature survey on meetings involving remote software teams.

Vicki Jackson and Rafael Priknadlicki represented our work on creativity, generative AI, and software development at SE 2030.

Three undergraduates joined the research group this summer to work on various projects. Welcome Xiantong, Xiaohua, and Sean. Also welcome to Riya and Cayson, Master students who joined the group as well.

Yoonha Cha presented our work on blind and low vision software developers at CHI 2024.

Vicki Jackson presented our work on co-creation in fully remote teams and Adriana Meza Soria presented our work on software maintenance meetings, both at ICSE 2024.

Kahye Ahn and Anmol Deshpande, M.S. students in the lab, defended their M.S. theses and graduated. Kahye is on to a job at Numecent and Anmol to a job at The Trade Desk. Congrats!