Vincent Hellendoorn

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy

If you need a mask to enforce the law, you don’t deserve a badge.
Federal agents are snatching people off the streets—faces covered, names hidden.
This isn’t safety. It’s secrecy.
It’s not America.

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2:30pm today at #ICSE2025: Data scientists regularly use sketches to design data pipelines. My student @luisfgomes.bsky.social built a prototype tool to generate data science notebook code from sketches. We studied the sketches developers produce, and assessed utility, uses cases, & needs.

Very proud of my student @nikitharao.bsky.social, who wrote 7(!) papers and did an incredible amount of work to wrap up a fantastic PhD this Spring!

With the US speed-running its own collapse, any thoughts on the new best country for CS research? Bonus points for family-friendly options, but the bar is low.

Can multi-modal LLMs help build data science pipelines from a whiteboard sketch? New paper led by @luisfgomes.bsky.social, to appear at ICSE’25! Read for insights into how devs sketch (lots of differences), what the models can & can’t provide (reduce lines written by about half), and future outlook.

The Software and Societal Systems (S3D) department in the School of Computer Science at CMU is hiring tenure-track faculty! This year we are especially looking in AI/ML for SE.

Applications due Dec 11, apply at apply.interfolio.com/150683

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Looks like the norm here is to introduce yourself with a nature picture, so here’s multiple halos in the afternoon fog (Marina, CA)