Jenny T. Liang (梁佳妮)
(she/her/hers)Ph.D. Student in Software Engineering
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
jtliang [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu
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I'm Jenny, a third year Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University advised by Dr. Brad A. Myers.
I'm fortunate to be supported by the National Science Foundation as a Graduate Research Fellow. I'm even luckier to have been mentored by some amazing researchers during my undergrad who inspired my current research: Amy J. Ko for software engineering and human-computer interaction, and Yejin Choi for natural language processing.
I'm interested in research at the intersections of software engineering (SE), human-computer interaction (HCI), and artificial intelligence (AI). I broadly study how to improve developer experience (DevEx) through the use of AI:
- Developer behavior: How do developers write software? (SE + HCI)
- Human-AI interaction: How do humans interact with AI? What do users need from AI? (AI + HCI)
- AI-augmented software development: How can AI approaches support software engineering tasks? (SE + AI)
Have any questions or just want to chat? I'm always happy to meet new people—just reach out! Don't forget to say hi to my dog, Mei 🐕!
News
- [Apr 2024] Our paper, "Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?" was accepted to ACM ESEC/FSE 2024. See you in Porto de Galinhas, Brazil! 🇧🇷
- [Jul 2023] Our paper, "NLPositionality: Measuring Positionality and Design Biases in Datasets and Models in NLP", won an Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2023. 🏆
- [Feb 2023] Our paper, "A Qualitative Study on the Implementation Design Decisions of Developers", won the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ICSE 2023. 🏆
Research Highlights
Here are a sample of research projects I have led. For a complete list of publications, please refer to the Publications page.
Developer Behavior (SE+HCI)
A Qualitative Study on the Implementation Design Decisions of Developers
Jenny T. Liang, Maryam Arab, Minhyuk Ko, Amy J. Ko, Thomas D. LaToza
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2023
Human-AI Interaction (HCI+AI)
A Large-Scale Survey on the Usability of AI Programming Assistants: Successes and Challenges
Jenny T. Liang, Chenyang Yang, Brad A. Myers
IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 2024
NLPositionality: Measuring Positionality and Design Biases in Datasets and Models in NLP
Sebastin Santy*, Jenny T. Liang*, Ronan Le Bras, Katharina Reinecke, Maarten Sap
Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023
AI-augmented Software Development (SE+AI)
Can GPT-4 Replicate Empirical Software Engineering Research?
Jenny T. Liang, Carmen Badea, Christian Bird, Robert DeLine, Denae Ford, Nicole Forsgren, Thomas Zimmermann
ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), 2024