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Ryan Yen
Google Scholar ID: 9LztrWkAAAAJ
PhD, MIT CSAIL
Human-Computer Interaction
Human-AI Interaction
Visual Interface
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Code Shaping: Iterative Code Editing with Free-form AI-Interpreted Sketching
2025
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Code Shaping: Iterative Code Editing with Free-form AI-Interpreted Sketching
2025
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Research Experience
Conducting research on Semi-formal Programming at MIT VIS Lab
Developed Code Shaping, which uses freeform sketching around code combined with GenAI for iterative editing
Created CoLadder, exploring multi-level blocks for dynamic manipulation of abstraction layers in code generation
Worked on Memolet, investigating reuse of conversational memory in human-AI interactions
Contributed to To Search or To Gen?, examining how generative AI and web search complement each other in programming
Currently interning at Microsoft Research with Steven Drucker and Chenglong Wang
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Jian Zhao
University of Waterloo
Sangho Suh
Research Scientist, Allen Institute for AI (Ai2)
Zhicong Lu
Assistant Professor, George Mason University
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Haijun Xia
Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
Daniel Vogel
University of Waterloo
Can Liu
City University of Hong Kong
Mingming Fan
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
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