Andrew Head
Assistant Professor · School of Engineering and Applied Science · University of Pennsylvania
⭐ Prospective Ph.D. applicants: I will not be taking on incoming Ph.D. students in fall 2026.
Penn master's and bachelor's students: If you want to do research with our group, take Penn's class in human-computer interaction—CIS 4120/5120—and then apply to do research with our group here. You may also want to keep an eye out for special topics courses (7000-level) that I and Professor Metaxa teach, w
Research interests
Human-computer interaction · Programming · Reading.
Selected publications (since 2023)
[2026] The Invisible Mentor: Inferring User Actions from Screen Recordings to Recommend Better Workflows. Litao Yan, Andrew Head, Ken Milne, Vu Le, Sumit Gulwani, Chris Parnin, and Emerson Murphy-Hill. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2026.
[2025] Answering Developer Questions with Annotated Agent-Discovered Program Traces. Litao Yan, Jeffrey Tao, Lydia Chilton, and Andrew Head. ACM User Interfaces Software and Technology Symposium (UIST), 2025.
[2025] QED in Context: An Observation Study of Proof Assistant Users. Jessica Shi, Cassia Torczon, Harrison Goldstein, Benjamin C. Pierce, and Andrew Head. Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages (OOPSLA), 2025.
[2025] FreeForm: Flexibly Augmenting Formulas with Synchronized Markup and Graphical Edits. Jeffrey Tao
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