Aakash Bansal
PhD in CSE, University of Notre Dame
Hi! I am an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University. This fall I will teach CSC 3102 - Advanced Data Structures and Algorithms.
I recently earned my PhD from the University of Notre dame advised by Prof. Collin McMillan in the Automatic Program Comprehension Lab (APCL). Before that, I earned my Masters in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey with distinction. I work on developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques with applications in Software Engineering (SE). My research interests are at the intersection of AI and SE. My long-term research objective is to bridge the gap between human program comprehension and automatic program comprehension. My short-term research focus is the advancement of neural networks specializing in modeling source code. Specifically, source code summarization, a well-defined task of taking source code and generating natural language descriptions, with applications in code documentation, education, and software maintainance to name a few. I am also interested in bio-inspired machine intelligence that drives my ongoing research.
I am hiring self-motivated PhD students for fully-funded postions in my lab. Interested candidates may reach out through the email icon below with their CV and description of research interests.
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Aug 1, 2024 | Our paper Revisiting File Context for Source Code Summarization, accepted at the Journal for Automated Software Engineering. |
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Jun 15, 2024 | Our paper A Tale of Two Comprehensions? Analyzing Student Programmer Attention during Code Summarization, accepted at the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM). |
Mar 22, 2024 | I successfully defended my doctoral dissertation! commencement ceremony on May 18th! |
Jan 15, 2024 | Our exciting new paper titled EyeTrans: Merging Human and Machine Attention for Neural Code Summarization, accepted at FSE 2024 |
Jan 1, 2024 | Our Tool Demo paper titled CodeGRITS: A Research Toolkit for Developer Behavior and Eye Tracking in IDE, accepted at ICSE2024 |