I'm a senior undergraduate student in computer science at the University of Rochester. My primary academic interests are human aspects of software development, human computer interaction, and programming languages. Specifically, I seek to design language and development environment features that reduce the mental overhead of common programming and computing tasks, and use knowledge of language structure to put freely available code into broader use.

Crowd Memory: Learning in the Collective 2012 Proceedings of Collective Intelligence Cambridge, Massachusetts pubs/crowd-mem.pdf Real-time Crowd Control of Existing Interfaces 2011 Proceedings of the 24th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology Santa Barbara, California pubs/legion.pdf Beyond Autocomplete: Automatic Function Definition 2011 Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania pubs/auto-func-def.pdf FlashDOM: Interacting with Flash Content from the Document Object Model 2010 Proceedings of the 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility Orlando, Florida pubs/flashdom.pdf WebTrax: Visualizing Non-Visual Web Interactions 2010 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computers Helping People Vienna, Austria pubs/webtrax.pdf Automatic Function Definition A novel way to reduce the impact of threadbare libraries, decrease the time spent on primary programming tasks, and distribute work among different types of programmers and automatic tools by extending autocomplete to cover failure. Legion: Real-time Human Computation Building a framework that allows real-time control of existing computer interfaces via the crowd using dynamic worker pools recruited through services like Mechanical Turk. Multiverse A system which gives independent control of interfaces to individual crowd workers via branching virtual machines and achieves quality by selecting the best worker at each step of the task and using that virtual machine for subsequent branches. ActionScript Bytecode Abstraction Provides an abstraction of the bytecode found inside Flash SWF files, and allows ABC to be analyzed, manipulated, packaged back into an SWF, and run within a matter of seconds or milliseconds at runtime. CHI 2012 Student volunteer at the 2012 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Austin, TX. CI 2012 Attended the first Collective Intelligence conference in Cambridge, MA. A co-author presented our poster paper on crowd memory. PLMW and POPL 2012 Ventured into the world of PL theory by attending the Programming Languages Mentoring Workshop at POPL in Philadelphia, PA. Google unveils the Dart programming language Dart is a web programming language, originally leaked to the public in a controversial, Google-internal memo that expressed a desire to use Dart to supplant JavaScript as the dominant language of the web. Code Bubbles released as Debugger Canvas Debugger Canvas is a new interface for editing and viewing code in integrated development environments. It is the first public release of what was Andrew Bragdon's Code Bubbles project at Brown. Harmony Of My Dreams JavaScript creator Brendan Eich presents his ideal JavaScript Harmony proposal and the challenges that it will likely face in the TC-39 committee.

My interests are inspired by a number of great individuals and research projects. Alessandro Warth's OMeta, keyword programming and TurKit by Greg Little, tutorials by Kirupa Chinnathambi, and Trevor McCauley's deep technical understanding of ActionScript have all influenced my research motivations and experimental projects. My advisor Jeffrey Bigham and the rest of the members of the ROC HCI group are constantly involved in new and interesting research.

Beyond academics, I enjoy learning and discussing ambitious new programming languages and upcoming features of the web. I can be found on all of the usual social networks and moderating the web development community kirupa.com, hopefully providing insight related to web development and various ECMAScript dialects.