Selected Publications

In the following (partial) publication list, my advised students’ names appear underlined.

HiLT: A Library for Generating Human-in-the-Loop Data Transformation GUIs
Sora Kanosue, Xiaorui Liu, Parker Ziegler, Eric Rawn, Sarah E. Chasins
UIST '25: Proceedings of the 38th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
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Biology Paper
Programmable epigenome editing by transient delivery of CRISPR epigenome editor ribonucleoproteins
Da Xu, Swen Besselink, Gokul N. Ramadoss, Philip H. Dierks, Justin P. Lubin, Rithu K. Pattali, Jinna I. Brim, Anna E. Christenson, Peter J. Colias, Izaiah J. Ornelas, Carolyn D. Nguyen, Sarah E. Chasins, Bruce R. Conklin, James K. Nuñez
Nature Communications '25: Nature Communications
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Programming by Navigation
Justin Lubin, Parker Ziegler, Sarah E. Chasins
PLDI '25: Proceedings of the 46th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
Fast Direct Manipulation Programming with Patch-Reconciliation Correspondence
Parker Ziegler, Justin Lubin, Sarah E. Chasins
PLDI '25: Proceedings of the 46th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
Pagebreaks: Multi-Cell Scopes in Computational Notebooks
Eric Rawn, Sarah E. Chasins
CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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mRAKL: Multilingual Retrieval-Augmented Knowledge Graph Construction for Low-Resourced Languages
Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Min Li, Maartje Ter Hoeve, Saloni Potdar, Sarah Chasins
ACL '25: Proceedings of Association of Computational Linguistics (ACL) 2025 Findings
Flow with FlorDB: Incremental Context Maintenance for the Machine Learning Lifecycle
Rolando Garcia, Pragya Kallanagoudar, Chithra Anand, Sarah E. Chasins, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Erin M.T. Kerrison, Aditya G. Parameswaran
CIDR '25: Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
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Equivalence by Canonicalization for Synthesis-Backed Refactoring
Justin Lubin, Jeremy Ferguson, Kevin Ye, Jacob Yim, Sarah E. Chasins
PLDI '24: Proceedings of the 45th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
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Syntactic Code Search with Sequence-to-Tree Matching
Gabriel Matute, Wode Ni, Titus Barik, Alvin Cheung, Sarah E. Chasins
PLDI '24: Proceedings of the 45th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
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Low-Resourced Languages and Online Knowledge Repositories: A Need-Finding Study
Hellina Hailu Nigatu, John Canny, Sarah E. Chasins
CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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How Domain Experts Use an Embedded DSL
Lisa Rennels, Sarah E. Chasins
OOPSLA '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications
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Co-Designing for Transparency: Lessons from Building a Document Organization Tool in the Criminal Justice Domain
Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Lisa Pickoff-White, John Canny, Sarah Chasins
FAccT '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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Understanding Version Control as Material Interaction with Quickpose
Eric Rawn, Jingyi Li, Eric Paulos, Sarah E. Chasins
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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A Need-Finding Study with Users of Geospatial Data
Parker Ziegler, Sarah E. Chasins
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Exploring the Learnability of Program Synthesizers by Novice Programmers
Dhanya Jayagopal, Justin Lubin, Sarah E. Chasins
UIST '22: Proceedings of the 35th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
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Bolt-on, Compact, and Rapid Program Slicing for Notebooks
Shreya Shankar, Stephen Macke, Sarah Chasins, Andrew Head, Aditya Parameswaran
VLDB '22: Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
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Informing Housing Policy through Web Automation: Lessons for Designing Programming Tools for Domain Experts
Chris Hess, Sarah E. Chasins
CHI EA '22: Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Infrastructure for Rapid Open Knowledge Network Development
Michael Cafarella, Michael Anderson, Iz Beltagy, Arie Cattan, Sarah Chasins, Ido Dagan, Doug Downey, Oren Etzioni, Sergey Feldman, Tian Gao, Tom Hope, Kexin Huang, Sophie Johnson, Daniel King, Kyle Lo, Yuze Lou, Matthew Shapiro, Dinghao Shen, Shivashankar Subramanian, Lucy Lu Wang, Yuning Wang, Yitong Wang, Daniel S. Weld, Jenny Vo-Phamhi Anna Zeng, Jiayun Zou
AI Mag. '22: AI Magazine
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Building a Shared Conceptual Model of Complex, Heterogeneous Data Systems: A Demonstration
Michael R. Anderson, Yuze Lou, Jiayun Zou, Michael J. Cafarella, Sarah E. Chasins, Doug Downey, Tian Gao, Kexin Huang, Dinghao Shen, Jenny M. Vo-Phamhi, Yitong Wang, Yuning Wang, Anna Zeng
CIDR '22: Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
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How Statically-Typed Functional Programmers Write Code
Justin Lubin, Sarah E. Chasins
OOPSLA '21: Proceedings of the 2021 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications
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PL and HCI: Better Together
Sarah E. Chasins, Elena Glassman, Joshua Sunshine
CACM '21: Communications of the ACM
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Social Science Paper
Searching for housing in the digital age: Neighborhood representation on internet rental housing platforms across space, platform and metropolitan segregation
Chris Hess, Arthur Acolin, Rebecca Walter, Ian Kennedy, Sarah E. Chasins, Kyle Crowder
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
Social Science Paper
Toward a Cross-Platform Framework: Assessing the Comprehensiveness of Online Rental Listings
Ana Costa, Victoria Sass, Ian Kennedy, Roshni Roy, Rebecca J. Walter, Arthur Acolin, Kyle Crowder, Chris Hess, Alex Ramiller, Sarah E. Chasins
Cityscape '21: Cityscape Volume 23, No. 2 (HUD Office of Policy Development and Research)
A Theory of Robust API Knowledge
Kyle Thayer, Sarah E. Chasins, Amy J. Ko
TOCE '21: ACM Transactions on Computing Education
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Social Science Paper
Racialized Discourse in Seattle Rental Ad Texts
Ian Kennedy, Amandalynne Paullada, Chris Hess, Sarah E. Chasins
Social Forces '20: Social Forces, Volume 99, Issue 4
Democratizing Web Automation: Programming for Social Scientists and Other Domain Experts
Sarah E. Chasins
UC Berkeley PhD Dissertation 2019
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Social Science Paper
Comparing Small Area Fair Market Rents With Other Rental Measures Across Diverse Housing Markets
Chris Hess, Rebecca J. Walter, Arthur Acolin, Sarah E. Chasins
Cityscape '19: Cityscape Volume 21, No. 3 (HUD Office of Policy Development and Research)
Tea: A High-level Language and Runtime System for Automating Statistical Analysis
Eunice Jun, Maureen Daum, Jared Roesch, Sarah E. Chasins, Emery D. Berger, Rene Just, and Katharina Reinecke
UIST '19: Proceedings of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
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Social Science Paper
Seattle Rental Ad Texts and Processes of Segregation
Ian Kennedy, Amandalynne Paullada, Chris Hess, Sarah E. Chasins
ASA '19: Proceedings of the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association
Social Science Paper
Seattle Rental Ad Texts and Processes of Segregation: Using Craigslist to Understand Neighborhood Perception Patterns
Ian Kennedy, Amandalynne Paullada, Chris Hess, Sarah E. Chasins
PAA '19: Proceedings of the 88th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America
Rousillon: Scraping Distributed Hierarchical Web Data
Sarah E. Chasins, Maria Mueller, Rastislav Bodik
UIST '18: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
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Social Science Paper
The Practices and Attitudes of Rental Property Owners/Managers in a Tight and Increasingly Regulated Housing Market
Erin Carll, Chris Hess, Kyle Crowder, Jerry Herting, Sarah E. Chasins, Claire Lawry, Adam Kirstein, Logan Young, Ian Kennedy
PAA '18: Proceedings of the 87th Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America
Skip Blocks: Reusing Execution History to Accelerate Web Scripts
Sarah E. Chasins, Rastislav Bodik
OOPSLA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications
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Data-Driven Synthesis of Full Probabilistic Programs
Sarah E. Chasins, Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana
CAV '17: Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification
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Ringer: Web Automation by Demonstration
Shaon Barman, Sarah E. Chasins, Rastislav Bodik, Sumit Gulwani
OOPSLA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications
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Using SyGuS to Synthesize Reactive Motion Plans
Sarah E. Chasins, Julie Newcomb
SYNT@CAV '16: Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Synthesis
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Browser Record and Replay as a Building Block for End-User Web Automation Tools
Sarah E. Chasins, Shaon Barman, Rastislav Bodik, Sumit Gulwani
WWW '15: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion
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Dicer: A Framework for Controlled, Large-Scale Web Experiments
Sarah E. Chasins, Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana
WWW '15: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion
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Research.js: Evaluating Research Tool Usability on the Web
Joel Galenson, Cindy Rubio-Gonzalez, Sarah E. Chasins, Liang Gong
PLATEAU '14: Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Evaluation and Usability of Programming Languages and Tools
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Chlorophyll: Synthesis-Aided Compiler for Low-Power Spatial Architectures
Phitchaya Mangpo Phothilimthana, Tikhon Jelvis, Rohin Shah, Nishant Totla, Sarah E. Chasins, Rastislav Bodik
PLDI '14: Proceedings of the 35th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation
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Biochemistry as a Programming Language
Saurabh Srivastava, Tim Hsiau, Sarah E. Chasins, Jonathan Kotker, Yen-Sheng Ho, Paul Ruan, Jeff Tsui, Stephi Hamilton, Jene Li, J. Christopher Anderson, Sanjit A. Seshia, and Rastislav Bodik
OBT@POPL '13: Proceedings of Off the Beaten Track (OBT/POPL)
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An Efficient Implementation of the Plaid Language
Sarah E. Chasins
Swarthmore College Honors Thesis 2012
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Efficient Implementation of the Plaid Language
Sarah E. Chasins
OOPSLA '11 SRC: Proceedings of Systems Programming Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) Companion (SRC)
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