Daye Nam

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I will begin as an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Irvine, in Fall 2025. Currently, I am a visiting researcher at Google, working with Satish Chandra. I completed my Ph.D. at Carnegie Mellon University in May 2024. At CMU, I was fortunate to be advised by Brad Myers, Bogdan Vasilescu, and Vincent Hellendoorn. I received my M.S. degree from the University of Southern California, and B.S. degree from Yonsei University.

My research focuses on designing, building, and evaluating AI tools for developers, with a strong emphasis on making these tools useful and usable. My ultimate goal is to empower programmers at all levels to write programs effectively and with greater control, aided by AI.

Prospective students: I am actively seeking motivated students with strong backgrounds in software engineering, human-computer interaction, and/or natural language processing. If you are interested in working with me, apply to the program and mention me as the faculty member of interest. Feel free to email me your CV and a brief description of your research interests as well.

news

Jul 2024 I’m thrilled to be joining the University of California Irvine, as an Assistant Professor starting in Fall 2025!
Jul 2024 I’m excited to begin my visiting researcher position at Google, where I’ll be working with Satish Chandra to enhance developer productivity using AI developer tools.
Apr 2024 I defended my PhD dissertation 🎓
Jan 2024 Our paper Understanding Documentation Use Through Log Analysis: A Case Study of Four Cloud Services is accepted to CHI 2024 🌴!
Oct 2023 Our paper Using an LLM to Help With Code Understanding is accepted to ICSE 2024. See you in Lisbon 🇵🇹!

selected publications

  1. ICSE
    Using an LLM to Help With Code Understanding
    In 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2024, Lisbon, Portugal, April 14-20, 2024
  2. ICSE
    Improving API Knowledge Discovery with ML: A Case Study of Comparable API Methods
    Daye Nam, Brad A. Myers, Bogdan Vasilescu, and Vincent Hellendoorn
    In 45th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2023, Melbourne, Australia, May 14-20, 2023
  3. ASE
    MARBLE: Mining for Boilerplate Code to Identify API Usability Problems
    In 34th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, ASE 2019, San Diego, CA, USA, November 11-15, 2019