Talks & Media

Invited Talks and Presentations

Aug 2026	What Makes a Great Co-Worker in an AI-Native Workplace? Internship Talk, Tech Futures Group, Microsoft [slides]
Sep 2025	AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work Internship Talk, SAINTES Group, Microsoft Research [slides]
Jul 2025	What Needs Attention? Designing for Appropriate Trust in AI Invited Talk, Appropriate Reliance Group, Microsoft Research [slides]
May 2025	What Guides Our Choices? Modeling Developers’ Trust and Adoption Towards GenAI International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2025, Ottawa [slides]
Apr 2025	Insights from the Frontline: GenAI Utilization Among Software Engineering Students IEEE Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T) 2025, Ottawa [slides]
Nov 2024	Cognitive Factors Affecting Trust and Adoption Towards AI Invited Talk, Colorado State University [slides]
Apr 2024	How Far Are We? The Triumphs and Trials of Generative AI in SE International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2024, Lisbon [slides]
Dec 2021	Adaptive Rough-Fuzzy Kernelized Clustering for Noisy Brain MRI Tissue Segmentation International Conference on Computer Vision and Image Processing (CVIP) 2021 [slides]

Awards and Honors

2026	🏆 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ICSE 2026, for “Maybe We Need Some More Examples”
2026	🏆 IEEE Distinguished Paper Award, ICSME 2026 Industry Track, for “To Copilot and Beyond”
2025	MOSIP Global Impact Inclusive Research Fellowship (Gates Foundation-funded)
2025	OpenAI Researcher Access Program Grant, Sole PI
2024–25	NSF Travel Award, ICSE 2024 and ICSE 2025
2021	🏆 IAPR Distinguished Paper Award, CVIP 2021
2021	🏆 Best Paper Award, ICACA 2021
2020	🥇 Gold Medalist, NPTEL (IIT Ropar); Rank 1 in college, B.Tech Computer Science

Media Coverage

May 2026	AI might be reshaping how college students learn, at the expense of critical thinking KGW TV News
May 2026	OSU study raises concerns about AI’s impact on student thinking skills KATU ABC2 TV News
May 2026	OSU study warns of declining cognitive ability as AI use grows in STEM fields KOIN 6 News; also on Yahoo News
May 2026	The staggering ‘cognitive debt’ of generative AI in education Jefferson Public Radio, The Jefferson Exchange
May 2026	America’s STEM students are falling into an ‘AI dependence spiral’ SAN News
May 2026	Tech-savvy STEM students prone to letting AI do their thinking for them The News Guard
May 2026	AI literacy to prevent scams in the AI era KGW TV News

Industry Coverage

Aug 2026	Where do developers draw the line on AI autonomy? Research-Driven Engineering Leadership (RDEL #158); features “You Shall Not Pass”
Jul 2026	Five studies that are changing how I think about AI in software engineering Engineering Enablement (DX), Brian Houck; features “AI Where It Matters” and “To Copilot and Beyond”
May 2026	The AI-native developer Engineering Enablement (DX), Brian Houck; features “The AI-Native Developer” (ACM Queue)
May 2026	How does deepening AI fluency change what it means to be a software developer? RDEL #143; features “The AI-Native Developer”
Oct 2025	Where do developers actually want AI to support their work? RDEL #114; features “AI Where It Matters”
Sep 2025	What distinguishes developers who successfully adopt AI tools from those who don’t? RDEL #108; features “Maybe We Need Some More Examples”
Mar 2025	What influences developers’ trust in adopting AI-assisted coding tools? RDEL #84; features “What Guides Our Choices?”