ACM/AAIA Fellow; Co-authored 170+ research publications, with 13 award-winning papers (including 3 test-of-time awards from ICSE and POPL); Delivered 70+ keynotes/invited talks; Awarded the Max Planck-Humboldt medal in 2021 and the ACM SIGPLAN Robin Milner Young Researcher Award in 2014 for pioneering contributions to program synthesis and intelligent tutoring systems.
Research Experience
Leads the PROSE research and engineering team at Microsoft that develops APIs for program synthesis and has incorporated them into various Microsoft products including Visual Studio, Office, Notebooks, PowerQuery, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, Powershell, and SQL.
Education
Obtained his PhD (specific degree, school, advisor, and time not provided)
Background
A computer scientist connecting ideas, people, and research with practice. Inventor of several intent-understanding, programming-by-example, and programming-by-natural-language technologies including the popular Flash Fill feature in Excel used by hundreds of millions of people (which has now also found its place in middle-school computing textbooks).