6 month update of the website

app/Data/news.json

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
     {
         "date": "Oct '25",
         "content": "One paper got accepted to ICSE '26! 🎉",
-        "href": "#publication",
+        "href": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.08045",
         "people": [
             "xinyi",
             "athena",
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
     {
         "date": "Oct '25",
         "content": "Two papers got accepted to Koli Calling '25! 📢",
-        "href": "#publication",
+        "href": "https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3769994.3770027",
         "people": [
             "jade",
             "rini"

app/Data/people.json

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
   },
   {
     "name": "Athena Saghi",
-    "role": "a 2nd year Ph.D. Student.",
+    "role": "a 3rd year Ph.D. Candidate.",
     "image": "/profile/athena.jpeg",
     "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/atena-saghi/",
     "id": "athena",
@@ -49,18 +49,19 @@
   },
   {
     "name": "Jade H",
-    "role": "a 3rd year Ph.D. Student.",
+    "role": "a 4th year Ph.D. Candidate.",
     "image": "/profile/jade.png",
     "link": "#",
     "id": "jade",
     "bio": "They graduated from Yale University with a BSc in Computer Science and Physics. Their research interests are in Computer Science Education."
   },
   {
     "name": "Philipp Eibl",
-    "role": "a 2nd year Ph.D. Student.",
+    "role": "a 3rd year Ph.D. Student.",
     "image": "/profile/philipp.jpeg",
     "link": "https://philippnoah.github.io/",
     "id": "philipp",
+    "alumni": true,
     "bio": "He graduated from University of Toronto with a BSc in Computer Science. His research interests are in Codebase agents and HAI.",
     "links": [
       {
@@ -79,7 +80,7 @@
   },
   {
     "name": "Run Huang",
-    "role": "a 2nd year Ph.D. Student.",
+    "role": "a 3rd year Ph.D. Student.",
     "image": "/profile/run.jpeg",
     "link": "https://huang.run",
     "id": "run",
@@ -101,7 +102,7 @@
   },
   {
     "name": "Sadra Sabouri",
-    "role": "a 2nd year Ph.D. Student.",
+    "role": "a 3rd year Ph.D. Student.",
     "image": "/profile/sadra.png",
     "link": "https://sadrasabouri.github.io/",
     "id": "sadra",
@@ -121,6 +122,81 @@
       }
     ]
   },
+  {
+    "name": "Sujay Maladi",
+    "role": "a M.S. Researcher",
+    "image": "/profile/sujay.png",
+    "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujay-maladi",
+    "alumni": false,
+    "id": "sujay",
+    "bio": "at USC.",
+    "links": [
+      {
+        "type": "linkedin",
+        "href": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/sujay-maladi"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "Allen Jiang",
+    "role": "an Undergraduate Researcher",
+    "image": "/profile/allen.jpg",
+    "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-jiang0421/",
+    "alumni": false,
+    "id": "allen",
+    "bio": "at USC.",
+    "links": [
+      {
+        "type": "linkedin",
+        "href": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/allen-jiang0421/"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "Agastya Bassi",
+    "role": "an Undergraduate Researcher",
+    "image": "/profile/agastya.jpg",
+    "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/agastya-bassi/",
+    "alumni": false,
+    "id": "agastya",
+    "bio": "at USC.",
+    "links": [
+      {
+        "type": "linkedin",
+        "href": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/agastya-bassi/"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "Micah Muir",
+    "role": "an Undergraduate Researcher",
+    "image": "/profile/micah.png",
+    "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-muir-115228313/",
+    "alumni": false,
+    "id": "micah",
+    "bio": "at USC.",
+    "links": [
+      {
+        "type": "linkedin",
+        "href": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/micah-muir-115228313/"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
+  {
+    "name": "Anton George",
+    "role": "a M.S. Researcher",
+    "image": "/profile/anton.jpg",
+    "link": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/antongeo",
+    "alumni": true,
+    "id": "anton",
+    "bio": "at USC.",
+    "links": [
+      {
+        "type": "linkedin",
+        "href": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/antongeo"
+      }
+    ]
+  },
   {
     "name": "Xinyi Zhou",
     "role": "a M.S. graduate",
@@ -211,4 +287,4 @@
       }
     ]
   }
-]
+]

app/Data/projects.json

@@ -1,63 +1,19 @@
 [
   {
-    "name": "Science in Stack Overflow",
-    "description": "Exploring references to academic literature on Stack Overflow (SO) to understand how scientific knowledge diffuses into this practitioner-centric forum.",
+    "name": "LLM-Powered Reasoning Graph Assistant",
+    "description": "This project develops an intelligent tool that constructs dynamic reasoning graphs from messy, real-time think-aloud data. Leveraging large language models as the foundation, the system creates interactive node-based representations of human reasoning processes as they unfold. By visualizing and analyzing these reasoning structures, the tool identifies cognitive gaps, logical inconsistencies, and unexplored solution paths, providing real-time nudges to support critical thinking and idea exploration. This framework enables scaffolded reasoning support that adapts to individual thought patterns.",
     "area": [
-      "Social Computing",
-      "Empirical Studies"
+      "Cognitive Computing",
+      "Knowledge Representation"
     ],
     "people": [
-      {
-        "name": "Run Huang",
-        "key": "run"
-      },
-      {
-        "name": "Souti Chattopadhyay",
-        "key": "rini"
-      }
-    ],
-    "related": [
-      {
-        "title": "A Tale of Two Communities: Exploring Academic References on Stack Overflow",
-        "venue": "WWW '24",
-        "href": "#"
-      }
-    ]
-  },
-  {
-    "name": "Sustainable Software Engineering",
-    "description": "Redefining the notion of sustainability for software projects, investigate various open-source and industrial projects to derive metrics, and help future engineers build sustainable software.",
-    "area": [
-      "Sustainability",
-      "Software Engineering"
-    ],
-    "people": [
-      {
-        "name": "Katie Foss",
-        "key": "katie"
-      },
       {
         "name": "Athena Saghi",
         "key": "athena"
       },
       {
-        "name": "Souti Chattopadhyay",
-        "key": "rini"
-      }
-    ]
-  },
-  {
-    "name": "Trustworthy AI code generation",
-    "description": "Developing a method to ensure trustworthy AI-generated code suggestions through statistical tools and program analysis techniques.",
-    "area": [
-      "Trustworthy AI",
-      "AI Code Generation",
-      "Software Engineering"
-    ],
-    "people": [
-      {
-        "name": "Sadra Sabouri",
-        "key": "sadra"
+        "name": "Varun Agrawal",
+        "key": "varun"
       },
       {
         "name": "Souti Chattopadhyay",
@@ -66,28 +22,34 @@
     ]
   },
   {
-    "name": "Codebase Generation Model Evaluation",
-    "description": "The project examines the performance of AI in creating codebases, assessing developer experience and code effectiveness.",
+    "name": "Brain Dynamic Analysis in AI-Assisted Programming",
+    "description": "This project investigates how artificial intelligence assistants like Copilot influence programmer creativity and cognitive dynamics. Using 24-channel EEG recordings, we analyze brain activity patterns when programmers engage in creative coding tasks under two conditions: with AI assistance enabled and without any tools. By examining neural correlates throughout the programming session, we explore how large language model integration affects creative problem-solving, cognitive engagement, and the coordination of different brain regions during code generation.",
     "area": [
-      "AI Code Generation",
-      "Prompt Engineering"
+      "Cognitive Computing",
+      "Cognitive Neuroscience"
     ],
     "people": [
       {
-        "name": "Philipp Eibl",
-        "key": "philipp"
+        "name": "Athena Saghi",
+        "key": "athena"
       },
       {
         "name": "Souti Chattopadhyay",
         "key": "rini"
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "Agastya Bassi",
+        "key": "agastya"
       }
     ]
   },
   {
-    "name": "Expanding the Scope of Changes Made by Code Prompts",
-    "description": "Exploring the limitations of current automatic code suggestion models in generating complete code bases from abstract prompts and proposing a human-in-the-loop framework to extend their capabilities",
+    "name": "Human Cognitive Biases and LLM Scalable Oversight",
+    "description": "This project investigates how human cognitive biases affects the transition from solution-generative to solution-evaluative tasks in AI-assisted workflows. Current LLMs aim to provide a seamless user experience that inadvertently reduces critical thinking, making human oversight less effective. The research develops taxonomies and tools to re-introduce productive friction, ensuring that humans remain cognitively engaged and capable of auditing complex model outputs.",
     "area": [
-      "AI Code Generation"
+      "AI Safety",
+      "Software Engineering",
+      "Cognitive Psychology"
     ],
     "people": [
       {
@@ -101,20 +63,23 @@
     ]
   },
   {
-    "name": "Cognitive control and intervention in autonomous systems",
-    "description": "To design good collaboration in human-autonomous system, we need to understand the cognitive barriers in humans and provide good explanation/intervention systems. In these projects, we look at different autonomous systems and study how human cognition needs support for seamless and safe operations.",
+    "name": "Supporting Collaborative Thinking in Pair Programming",
+    "description": "This project investigates how to better support productive discussion in pair programming. It focuses on how programming environments can encourage partners to explain their reasoning, respond to each other’s ideas, and think critically together while coding. The research combines formative studies to guide the design of new tools with evaluation studies that examine how those tools shape collaboration.",
     "area": [
-      "Cognitive Computing"
+      "Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning",
+      "Learning Sciences",
+      "Computing Education",
+      "Human-Computer Interaction"
     ],
     "people": [
       {
-        "name": "Athena Saghi",
-        "key": "athena"
+        "name": "Jade H",
+        "key": "jade"
       },
       {
         "name": "Souti Chattopadhyay",
         "key": "rini"
       }
     ]
   }
-]
+]