Research

My research interests lie at the intersection of Software Engineering, Human Computer Interaction and Artificial Intelligence. In previous years, I studied human aspects of software engineering centering on the analysis of design and software maintenance meetings. More recently, I investigate the application of Generative AI to software development workflows. Specifically, I explore novel ways to create synthetic data, AI software agents, and how to design novel LLM powered tools.

Education

I received my Ph.D. in Software Engineering from UC Irvine in 2022. There, I joined SDCL and worked under the supervision of Prof. André van der Hoek. During my time at UC Irvine, I was a recipient of the Rosalva Gallardo Valencia Award (2021), the Miguel Velez Scholarship (2017, 2019, 2022), and I was one of the Latino Excellence and Achievement awardees in 2021.

Service

• Conference Organizer: CHASE 2024, CHASE 2023
• Reviewer: Designing Workshop 2024, CHASE 2023, MSR 2021

Select Publications

• Granite Code Models: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence.
• API Pack: A Massive Multilingual Dataset for API Call Generation.
• Recurring distributed software maintenance meetings: toward an initial understanding.
• KNOCAP: capturing and delivering important design bits in whiteboard design meetings

For a full list of publications, please check my GoogleScholar profile.

Active Projects

• AI Software Agents
• Synthetic Data Library
• Software Maintenance Meetings
• KNOCAP

Languages

• English (fluent)
• Spanish (native speaker)