Scholar
Aayush Kumar
Google Scholar ID: x-Ih638AAAAJ
Research Fellow, Microsoft PROSE
Citations & Impact
Citations
159
H-index
3
i10-index
1
Publications
8
Co-authors
4
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - 'Why AI Agents Still Need You: Findings from Developer-Agent Collaborations in the Wild' ASE 2025 (To appear)
- - 'TableTalk: Scaffolding Spreadsheet Development with a Language Agent' ToCHI 2025
- - 'To Google or To ChatGPT? A Comparison of CS2 Students' Information Gathering Approaches and Outcomes' arXiv Pre-print
- - 'TEN: Table Explicitization, Neurosymbolically' arXiv Pre-print
- - 'Trust in Generative AI among Students: An Exploratory Study' SIGCSE 2024
- - 'End-user Programming is WEIRD: How, Why and What to Do About It' VL/HCC 2023
Research Experience
- - Research Fellow, Microsoft PROSE (2024 - Present), guided by Dr. Emerson Murphy-Hill, Dr. Gustavo Soares, and Dr. Sumit Gulwani.
Education
- B.Tech CSE @ Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (2020-2024), advised by Prof. Sruti Ragavan.
Background
- Research interests lie at the intersection of human-AI interactions, software engineering, and programming education. Particularly interested in exploring human-AI collaborations that improve upon the individual capabilities of both humans and AI and enrich the skill sets of users. Background: A Research Fellow at the PROSE team at Microsoft, working on agentic AI tools for software and spreadsheet development.
Miscellany
- Selected projects include designing a high-fidelity prototype for an app supporting people struggling with binge eating, analyzing the impact of intersectionality on different oversampling strategies for a behavioral predictive model in education, and creating an interactive game inspired by Netflix's Bandersnatch.
