Jie (Sophia) Gao

Recognition

Fellowships & Awards
  • ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, ICPC 2026
    Selected as one of only three Distinguished Papers that year (top 2.4% of all submissions) at ICPC, a premier venue for program comprehension and software engineering research.
  • Malone Postdoctoral Fellowship, Johns Hopkins University, 2024
  • SUTD PhD Fellowship, 2019
  • Excellent Graduate Student, Zhejiang University, 2019
  • Excellent Undergraduate Student, Shanghai University, 2017
  • Innovation and Entrepreneurship Scholarship, Shanghai University, 2016
  • Leadership Scholarship, Shanghai University, 2016
  • 3rd Prize, Shanghai Electronic Design Competition (Group Leader), 2016
Research Impact
  • Top-tier publications across CHI, TOCHI, UIST, IMWUT, and ICPC
  • CollabCoder (CHI 2024) and CoAIcoder (TOCHI 2023) are highly-cited in their venues

Service

Workshop Organizer
Associate Chair / Area Chair
  • ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Main Track
    • Associate Chair, 2026
    • Associate Chair, Best Paper Committee, 2025
  • ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Late-Breaking Work Track
    • Associate Chair, 2023
    • Associate Chair, 2022
Invited Reviewer
  • International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI), 2025
  • Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 2025
  • ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2025
  • Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 2025
  • ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 2024–2025
  • ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023–2024 (transitioned to Associate Chair from 2024)
  • ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2022–2023
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), 2023
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