Hi! I am a 1st year PhD student in Computer Science at UC San Diego, advised by Michael Coblenz. Previously, I did my undergrad at UC Berkeley, where I was advised by Sarah E. Chasins and mentored by Justin Lubin. I owe a lot to these amazing mentors, both past and present!

My primary research focus is at the intersection of human-computer interaction and programming languages. I want to build new programming systems that make it easier for users from nontechnical backgrounds to write and understand code. Currently, I’m excited about helping data scientists work more interactively with their data using direct manipulation and live programming.

Publications

^{(* = equal contribution)}

Theme Work on Teamwork: Mapping Student Teaming Experiences in Design Projects
Sara Beckman, Krina Patel, Qiuquan Gu, Shang Zhu, Alexander Cui, and Jacob Yim
FIE 2024

Equivalence by Canonicalization for Synthesis-Backed Refactoring [link]
Justin Lubin, Jeremy Ferguson*, Kevin Ye*, Jacob Yim*, and Sarah E. Chasins
PLDI 2024

Supporting Mastery Learning with Flexible Extensions [link]
Yuerou Tang*, Jacob Yim*, Jordan Schwartz, Madison Bohannan, Dana Benedicto, Charisse Liu, Armando Fox, Lisa Yan, and Narges Norouzi
SIGCSE TS 2024 Poster

Automated Support for Flexible Extensions [link]
Jordan Schwartz, Madison Bohannan, Jacob Yim, Yuerou Tang, Dana Benedicto, Charisse Liu, Armando Fox, Lisa Yan, and Narges Norouzi
SIGCSE TS 2024 Poster

Searching for Incidental Specifications [link]
Jeremy Ferguson*, Kevin Ye*, Jacob Yim*, and Justin Lubin
PLATEAU 2023

Reprogramming of DNA methylation at NEUROD2-bound sequences during cortical neuron differentiation [link]
Maria A Hahn, Seung-Gi Jin, Arthur X Li, Jiancheng Liu, Zhijun Huang, Xiwei Wu, Byung-Wook Kim, Jennifer Johnson, Adrienne-Denise V Bilbao, Shu Tao, Jacob A Yim, Yuman Fong, Sandra Goebbels, Markus H Schwab, Qiang Lu, and Gerd P Pfeifer
Science Advances

Teaching

Data 100: Principles and Techniques of Data Science @ UC Berkeley
lead teaching assistant: Summer 2024
teaching assistant: Spring 2023, Fall 2022, Summer 2022
course tutor: Spring 2022, Fall 2021

Industry Experience

Amazon Web Services
Software Development Engineer Intern: Summer 2023, Summer 2022

Nirmata
Software Engineering Intern: Summer 2021

last updated: 10/29/24