PUBLICATIONS

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DiffSpec: Differential Testing with LLMs using Natural Language Specifications and Code Artifacts

Nikitha Rao, Elizabeth Gilbert, Tahina Ramananandro, Nikhil Swamy, Claire Le Goues, Sarah Fakhoury
Published at: Under Submission, 2024
[arXiv] [code]

Prompts Are Programs Too! Understanding How Developers Build Software Containing Prompts

Jenny Liang, Melissa Lin, Nikitha Rao, Brad Myers
Published at: Under Submission, 2024
[arXiv]

CAT-LM: Training Language Models on Aligned Code And Tests

Nikitha Rao*, Kush Jain*, Uri Alon, Claire Le Goues, Vincent Hellendoorn
Published at: Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2023
[paper] [arXiv] [code] [data]

AI for Low-Code for AI

Nikitha Rao, Jason Tsay, Kiran Kate, Vincent J. Hellendoorn, Martin Hirzel
Published at: Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2024
[paper] [arXiv] [code]

Comments on Comments: Where Code Review and Documentation Meet

Nikitha Rao, Jason Tsay, Martin Hirzel, Vincent J. Hellendoorn
Published at: Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2022
[paper] [arXiv] [data]

Search4Code: Code Search Intent Classification Using Weak Supervision

Nikitha Rao, Chetan Bansal, Joe Guan
Published at: Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2021
[paper] [arXiv] [data]

Neural Knowledge Extraction From Cloud Service Incidents

Manish Shetty, Sumit Kumar, Chetan Bansal, Nikitha Rao, Nachi Nagappan, Tom Zimmermann
Published at: 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE SEIP), 2021
[paper] [arXiv]

Analyzing Web Search Behavior for Software Engineering Tasks

Nikitha Rao, Chetan Bansal, Tom Zimmermann, Ahmed Hassan Awadallah, Nachi Nagappan
Published at: IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData), 2020
[paper] [arXiv]

Product Insights: Analyzing Product Intents in Web Search

Nikitha Rao, Chetan Bansal, Subhabrata Mukherjee, Chandra Maddila
Published at: 29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), 2020
[paper] [arXiv]

Studying Ransomware Attacks Using Web Search Logs

Chetan Bansal*, Pantazis Deligiannis*, Chandra Maddila*, Nikitha Rao*
Published at: 43rd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, 2020
[paper] [arXiv]

Analysis of Joints for Tracking Fitness and Monitoring Progress in Physiotherapy

Nikitha Rao, Piyush M Surana, Rahul Ragesh, Gowri Srinivasa
Published at: IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA), 2019
[paper]


PREPRINTS

Handling Class Imbalance with POISE: pAUC Optimization in Supervised Experiments

Nikitha Rao, Sreangsu Acharyya
Under Review, 2020
[paper]