J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira
Assistant Professor
Studies how people design and prompt systems that combine humans and language models, including end-user prompt engineering.
J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira's lab at UCLA works on large language models. 13 papers since 2023, 5 at top venues, mostly CHI and DIS. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 38%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 2 papers2025 · T1 1
- 4 papers2024 · T1 3
- 7 papers2023 · T1 1
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CHI, DIS, FAccT, UIST
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models8 papers
- prompt1 paper
- combine0 papers
- end-user0 papers
- humans0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20252 papers
- SIGCSE TS61A Bot Report: AI Assistants in CS1 Save Students Homework Time and Reduce Demands on Staff. (Now What?)
- CHI (T1)Beyond Code Generation: LLM-supported Exploration of the Program Design Space
20244 papers
- CHI (T1)Prompting for Discovery: Flexible Sense-Making for AI Art-Making with DreamSheets
- CHI (T1)Rambler: Supporting Writing With Speech via LLM-Assisted Gist Manipulation
- VLDB Industry TrackSPADE: Synthesizing Data Quality Assertions for Large Language Model Pipelines
- UIST (T1)Who Validates the Validators? Aligning LLM-Assisted Evaluation of LLM Outputs with Human Preferences
20237 papers
- NeurIPS WorkshopConversational Programming with LLM-Powered Interactive Support in an Introductory Computer Science Course
- Nature Scientific Data, MarchCOVID-19 Non-pharmaceutical Interventions: data annotation for rapidly changing local policy information
- FAccTDetecting Disparities in Police Deployments using Dashcam Data
- DISHerding AI Cats: Lessons from Designing a Chatbot by Prompting GPT-3
- ICML AI&HCI workshopIterative Disambiguation: Towards LLM-Supported Programming and System Design
- UIST demo trackTowards Image Design Space Exploration in Spreadsheets with LLM Formulae
- CHI (T1)Why Johnny Can't Prompt: How Non-AI Experts Try (and Fail) to Design LLM Prompts
Where alumni went
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Computer Science PhD
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