Hello! I'm Avinash Bhat.
I am a PhD student in the Software Technology Lab at McGill University, working under the supervision of Professor Jin Guo. My research interests are in human-computer interaction and software engineering, with publications in CHI, CSCW, and DIS.

News
- January 2025SUMMIT Code and Artifacts ReleasedCode and artifacts for our work SUMMIT: Scaffolding Open Source Software Issue Discussion through Summarization are now available.
- January 2025Human-Centered AI Reading GroupI help organize the Human-Centered AI Reading Group at Mila. Please send me a message if you’d like to present!
- July 2024DIS 2024 PresentationI presented our paper Do LLMs Meet the Needs of Software Tutorial Writers? at DIS 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
- July 2024DIS Paper PublishedOur recent work Do LLMs Meet the Needs of Software Tutorial Writers? Opportunities and Design Implications is now available on ACM Digital Library.
Publications
- 2024Do LLMs Meet the Needs of Software Tutorial Writers? Opportunities and Design ImplicationsACM DIS 2024 | PDF
- 2024A Design Space for Intelligent and Interactive Writing AssistantsACM CHI 2024 | Website
- 2023A human-centered approach to designing effective large language model (LLM) based tools for writing software tutorialsMSc Thesis 2023 | PDF
- 2023SUMMIT: Scaffolding Open Source Software Issue Discussion through Summarization
- 2023Approach Intelligent Writing Assistants Usability with Seven Stages of ActionIn2Writing 2023 | PDF
- 2023Aspirations and Practice of Model Documentation: Moving the Needle with Nudging and TraceabilityACM CHI 2023 | *Equal contribution | PDF
- 2018A Novel Deterministic Framework for Non-probabilistic Recommender SystemsIEMIS 2018 | *Equal contribution | Springer
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