Qiaochu Chen

Area of Study / Keywords

Programming Languages Software Engineering Natural Language Processing

About

Jocelyn Qiaochu Chen is an incoming Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta, where she will lead the PEAR Lab (Programming Language and Reasoning Lab). Her research lies at the intersection of programming languages, formal methods, and natural language processing with a focus on AI-assisted programming and neurosymbolic program synthesis. She obtained her PhD from the University of Texas at Austin, advised by Isil Dillig and Greg Durrett, and her B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Her research has been published in top venues including PLDI, OOPSLA, NeurIPS, and ACL and she is a recipient of the 2023 EECS Rising Stars award.

Research

My current research interests revolve around the following key questions in AI-assisted programming:

• How can we leverage state-of-the-art machine learning models to create new programming abstractions? How can we leverage symbolic and neural techniques to synthesize programs in a correct, scalable, user-friendly way?

• What are the right abstractions for programming tasks involving Large Language Model (LLM) invocations?

• How can we effectively integrate programming interfaces with program synthesizers?

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