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Aakash Bansal

PhD in CSE, University of Notre Dame

Hi! I am a scientist working in the domain of Applied ML/AI, human factors, and software engineering. My expertise is context-engineering for domain-specific AI models and modelling human attention. Currently I’m on an intentional career break, looking for new challenges in industry.

Untill January 2026, I led the AI4SE lab at LSU as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Computer Science. I worked on challenges such as AI for software testing, security, and repair as well as Human-AI interaction. Before that, I earned my PhD from the University of Notre dame advised by Prof. Collin McMillan in the Automatic Program Comprehension Lab (APCL) working on AI for source code summarization and modelling/mimicking programmer attention and behavior.

If you want to build something cool and want to discuss an opportunity in industry, drop me an email!

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Jan 12, 2026 I resigned from my position at Louisiana State University to start a short career break.
Nov 5, 2025 Our collaborative paper Programmers’ Visual Attention on Function Call Graphs During Code Summarization, received a ACM Distinguished Paper Award.
Sep 15, 2025 Our collaborative paper Programmers’ Visual Attention on Function Call Graphs During Code Summarization, accepted at the top SE conference – ASE 2025.
Jul 15, 2025 Our paper Context Aware Code Summary Generation, accepted at the JSS Journal.
Mar 22, 2025 Our paper Programmer Visual Attention During Context-Aware Code Summarization, accepted at the top SE journal TSE.