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, 2025: Code and artifacts for our work SUMMIT: Scaffolding Open Source Software Issue Discussion through Summarization are now available.
January, 2025: I help organize the Human-Centered AI Reading Group at Mila. Please send me a message if you’d like to present!
July, 2024: I presented our paper Do LLMs Meet the Needs of Software Tutorial Writers? at DIS 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
July, 2024: Our recent work Do LLMs Meet the Needs of Software Tutorial Writers? Opportunities and Design Implications is now available on ACM Digital Library.
Publications
- Do LLMs Meet the Needs of Software Tutorial Writers? Opportunities and Design Implications
Avinash Bhat, Disha Shrivastava, Jin L.C. Guo (DIS 2024) - 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) - A human-centered approach to designing effective large language model (LLM) based tools for writing software tutorials
Avinash Bhat (MSc Thesis) - 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) - Approach Intelligent Writing Assistants Usability with Seven Stages of Action
Avinash Bhat, Disha Shrivastava, Jin L.C. Guo (In2Writing 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