Ryan Yen
Scholar

Ryan Yen

Google Scholar ID: 9LztrWkAAAAJ
PhD, MIT CSAIL
Human-Computer InteractionHuman-AI InteractionVisual Interface
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
171
 
H-index
7
 
i10-index
6
 
Publications
15
 
Co-authors
8
list available
Resume (English only)
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