Rudrajit Choudhuri

Rudrajit Choudhuri is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Oregon State University, working at the intersection of human–AI interaction, empirical software engineering, UX design, and cognitive science. He examines the cognitive and socio-technical factors that shape how developers and knowledge workers trust, adopt, and delegate to AI, where they draw the line on autonomy, and how routine reliance affects their thinking, identity, and craft. Drawing on large-scale studies and controlled experiments, he translates empirical findings into guidelines for human-centered AI tools.

At Microsoft Research, he identified where AI delivers value in software engineering and which interface interventions curb over-reliance; this work earned two Distinguished Paper Awards (ICSE 2026, ICSME 2026) and shaped guidance adopted by partner teams. At Microsoft Tech Futures, he explored what makes a great co-worker in AI-native workplaces and created a cookbook of UI/UX patterns for AI. As a Gates Foundation-funded MOSIP Global Impact Research Fellow, he built a multi-agent LLM workflow that automatically detects inclusivity bugs in software.

He has published more than 30 papers in leading SE/HCI venues (ICSE, TOSEM, IST, ICSME, ICER, EMSE, and ACM Queue) and in AI/ML and computer vision venues (CVIP, ICVGIP, Applied Soft Computing, and Neural Computing and Applications), and his research has been frequently covered on TV and radio and in industry newsletters.