Aug2026
Talks, awards & media
Coverage on TV, radio, and in the news, invited talks with slides, industry newsletter features, and awards.
On TV, radio & in the news
KPTV FOX 12TV
Study shows AI may inhibit cognitive abilities (15-minute interview)
Oct 2026 · Watch or read →OSU NewsroomNews
Tech-savvy STEM students prone to letting AI do their thinking for them, study shows
Oct 2026 · Watch or read →KGW TV NewsTV
AI might be reshaping how college students learn, at the expense of critical thinking
May 2026 · Watch or read →KATU ABC2TV
OSU study raises concerns about AI’s impact on student thinking skills
May 2026 · Watch or read →KOIN 6 NewsNews
OSU study warns of declining cognitive ability as AI use grows in STEM fields
May 2026 · Watch or read →Jefferson Public RadioRadio
The staggering “cognitive debt” of generative AI in education
May 2026 · Watch or read →SAN NewsNews
America’s STEM students are falling into an “AI dependence spiral”
May 2026 · Watch or read →The News GuardNews
Tech-savvy STEM students prone to letting AI do their thinking for them
May 2026 · Watch or read →Yahoo NewsNews
OSU study warns of declining cognitive ability as AI use grows in STEM fields
May 2026 · Watch or read →KGW TV NewsTV
AI literacy to prevent scams in the AI era
May 2026 · Watch or read →Invited talks
Slides
Sep2025
AI Where It Matters: Where, Why, and How Developers Want AI Support in Daily Work
Internship talk, SAINTES Group, Microsoft ResearchJul2025
What Needs Attention? Designing for Appropriate Trust in AI
Invited talk, Appropriate Reliance Group, Microsoft ResearchMay2025
What Guides Our Choices? Modeling Developers’ Trust and Adoption Towards GenAI
ICSE 2025, OttawaApr2025
Insights from the Frontline: GenAI Utilization Among Software Engineering Students
CSEE&T 2025, OttawaNov2024
Cognitive Factors Affecting Trust and Adoption Towards AI
Invited talk, Colorado State UniversityApr2024
How Far Are We? The Triumphs and Trials of Generative AI in SE
ICSE 2024, LisbonDec2021
Adaptive Rough-Fuzzy Kernelized Clustering for Noisy Brain MRI Tissue Segmentation
CVIP 2021Awards & honors
2026
ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award
ICSE 2026, for “Maybe We Need Some More Examples” View certificate →2026
IEEE Distinguished Paper Award
ICSME 2026 Industry Track, for “To Copilot and Beyond” View certificate →2021
IAPR Distinguished Paper Award
CVIP 2021 View certificate →2021
Best Paper Award
ICACA 2021 View certificate →2025
MOSIP Global Impact Inclusive Research Fellowship
Gates Foundation-funded2025
OpenAI Researcher Access Program Grant
PI2024–25
NSF Travel Award
ICSE 2024 and ICSE 20252020–22
Gold Medalist and Rank 1
Gold Medal, NPTEL, IIT Ropar (2020)Rank 1 in college, B.Tech Computer Science (2022)