Hello! I'm Avinash Bhat.
About
I am a graduate student in the School of Computer Science at McGill University advised by Professor Jin Guo. My research is in human-computer interaction with a goal of improving the usability of intelligent systems geared towards software engineering.
Previously I was a Software Engineer at Cisco Systems, Bangalore where I worked on enterprise tools for code reviewing and deployment. My Bachelors degree was in Computer Science and Engineering from the National Institute of Engineering, Mysore. During my undergrad, I briefly worked for two early stage startups, explored collaborative filtering algorithms in recommender systems, and did my final year project on contextual information retrieval for Wikipedia articles.
Publications
- A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing Assistants
Mina Lee, Katy Ilonka Gero, John Joon Young Chung, Simon Buckingham Shum, Vipul Raheja, Hua Shen, Subhashini Venugopalan, Thiemo Wambsganss, David Zhou, Emad A. Alghamdi, Tal August, Avinash Bhat, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Senjuti Dutta, Jin L.C. Guo, Md Naimul Hoque, Yewon Kim, Simon Knight, Seyed Parsa Neshaei, Agnia Sergeyuk, Antonette Shibani, Disha Shrivastava, Lila Shroff, Jessi Stark, Sarah Sterman, Sitong Wang, Antoine Bosselut, Daniel Buschek, Joseph Chee Chang, Sherol Chen, Max Kreminski, Joonsuk Park, Roy Pea, Eugenia H. Rho, Shannon Zejiang Shen, Pao Siangliulue (CHI 2024) - Approach Intelligent Writing Assistants Usability with Seven Stages of Action
Avinash Bhat, Disha Shrivastava, Jin L.C. Guo (In2Writing 2023) - SUMMIT: Scaffolding Open Source Software Issue Discussion through Summarization
Saskia Gilmer, Avinash Bhat, Shuvam Shah, Kevin Cherry, Jinghui Cheng, Jin L.C. Guo (CSCW 2023) - Aspirations and Practice of Model Documentation: Moving the Needle with Nudging and Traceability
Avinash Bhat*, Austin Coursey*, Grace Hu, Sixian Li, Nadia Nahar, Shurui Zhou, Christian Kästner, Jin L.C. Guo (CHI 2023) *Equal contribution - A Novel Deterministic Framework for Non-probabilistic Recommender Systems
Avinash Bhat*, Divya Madhav Kamath*, C. Anitha (IEMIS 2018) *Equal contribution
News
August, 2023: Our paper SUMMIT: Scaffolding Open Source Software Issue Discussion through Summarization is accepted to CSCW 2023.
April, 2023: I will be attending CHI 2023 at Hamburg, Germany and presenting two of our works, Approach Intelligent Writing Assistants Usability with Seven Stages of Action and Aspirations and Practice of Model Documentation: Moving the Needle with Nudging and Traceability.
March, 2023: Our position paper Approach Intelligent Writing Assistants Usability with Seven Stages of Action is accepted to the 2nd In2Writing workshop co-located with CHI 2023.