Joel Brandt is a Senior Research Scientist at Adobe Systems. Through a mixture of empirical work and systems building, he studies Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). His current research interests include software development, crowdsourcing, and online learning.

Joel completed his Ph.D. at Stanford University in 2010, and was a member of Stanford's HCI Group, advised by Scott Klemmer. His thesis work explores the role that information resources play during software development. As part of this work, he built tools that make it easier for programmers to locate and use instructive example code. This software is used by thousands of programmers on a daily basis. He received a BS with majors in Computer Science andMathematics and an MS in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis.

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Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Projects

Blueprint Code Search: Integrating Web Search into the Development Environment

Publications

ConstraintJS: Programming Interactive Behaviors for the Web by Integrating Constraints and States

Oney, S., Brandt, J., Myers, B. (Oct 07, 2012)

In Proceedings of UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.

SnipMatch: Using Source Code Context to Enhance Snippet Retrieval and Parameterization

Wightman, D., Ye, Z., Brandt, J., Vertegaal, R. (Oct 07, 2012)

In Proceedings of UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology.

A Print Magazine on Any Screen: The Wired App Story

Clark, J., Brandt, J. (May 05, 2012)

In Proceedings of CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. [doi]

Codelets: Linking Interactive Documentation and Example Code in the Editor

Oney, S., Brandt, J. (May 05, 2012)

In Proceedings of CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. [doi]

Analytic Methods for Optimizing Realtime Crowdsourcing

Bernstein, M. S., Brandt, J., Karger, D. R., Miller, R. C. (Apr 13, 2012)

In Proceedings of CI: Collective Intelligence. [arXiv]

Crowds in Two Seconds: Enabling Realtime Crowd-Powered Interfaces

Bernstein, M., Brandt, J., Miller, R. C., Karger, D. R. (Feb 01, 2011)

In Proceedings of UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. [doi]

Example-Centric Programming: Integrating Web Search into the Development Process

Brandt, J. (Feb 01, 2010)

Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University

How the Web Helps People Turn Ideas Into Code

Brandt, J., Guo, P. J., Lewenstein, J., Dontcheva, M., Klemmer. S. R. (Feb 01, 2010)

In No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web, edited by Cypher, A., Dontcheva, M., Lau, T., Nichols, J., Kaufmann, M

What Would Other Programmers Do? Suggesting Solutions to Error Messages

Hartmann, B., MacDougall, D., Brandt, J., Klemmer, S. R. (Feb 01, 2010)

In Proceedings of CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1019-1028. [doi]

Example-Centric Programming: Integrating Web Search into the Development Environment

Brandt, J., Dontcheva, M., Weskamp, M., Klemmer, S. R. (Feb 01, 2010)

In Proceedings of CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, 513-522. [doi]

Opportunistic Programming: Writing Code to Prototype, Ideate, and Discover

Brandt, J., Guo, P. J., Lewenstein, J., Dontcheva, M., Klemmer, S. R. (Feb 01, 2009)

IEEE Software, 26 (5), 18-24. [doi]

Two Studies of Opportunistic Programming: Interleaving Web Foraging, Learning, and Writing Code

Brandt, J., Guo, P. J., Lewenstein, J., Dontcheva, M., Klemmer. S. R. (Feb 01, 2009)

In Proceedings of CHI: ACM Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems, 1589-1598. [doi].