Stanford University · Ph.D. in Computer Science
Thesis title: Example-Centric Programming: Integrating Web Search into the Development Process
Advisor: Scott R. Klemmer, Readers: Mira Dontcheva, John Ousterhout, Terry Winograd

Washington University in St. Louis · M.S. in Computer Science
Thesis title: What A Mesh: Dependent Data Types for Correct Mesh Manipulation Algorithms
Readers: Aaron Stump, Sally Goldman, Cindy Grimm

Washington University in St. Louis · B.S., dual majors in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
Magna Cum Laude, GPA 4.0/4.0

Adobe Research · Los Angeles, CA
Principal Scientist
Invent new technologies and interactions that revolutionize the way people create.

Snap, Inc. · Los Angeles, CA
Sr. Manager, Research Engineering
Lead advanced engineering team focused on creating new technology and products.

Adobe Research · San Francisco, CA
Director, Research Engineering
Lead advanced engineering team focused on creating new technology and products.

Mass Sensors, Inc. · St. Louis, Missouri
Software Engineer
Develop software and firmware for chemical analysis equipment.

Adobe Creative Technologies Lab · San Francisco, CA
Research Intern
Understand and improve how programmers use the Web.

Google · Mountain View, CA
Intern
Develop new ranking algorithms for personalized Web search, focusing on user location.

Metris, Inc. (now Nikon, Inc.) · Dulles, VA
Application Software Engineer
Develop software for metrology solutions.

Temporal Segmentation of Creative Live Streams [doi]
C. Ailie Fraser, Joy O. Kim, Hijung Valentina Shin, Joel Brandt, Mira Dontcheva
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Supporting Visual Artists in Programming through Direct Inspection and Control of Program Execution [doi]
Jingyi Li, Joel Brandt, Radomír Mech, Maneesh Agrawala, Jennifer Jacobs
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Implementing Multi-Touch Gestures with Touch Groups and Cross Events (Best Paper Honorable Mention) [local]
Steve Oney, Rebecca Krosnick, Joel Brandt, Brad Myers
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Extending Manual Drawing Practices with Artist-Centric Programming Tools (Best Paper) [local]
Jennifer Jacobs, Joel Brandt, Radomír Měch, Mitchel Resnick
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Rewire: Interface Design Assistance from Examples [local]
Amanda Swearngin, Mira Dontcheva, Wilmot Li, Joel Brandt, Morgan Dixon, Andrew J. Ko
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Supporting Expressive Procedural Art Creation through Direct Manipulation (Best Paper) [local] [video]
Jennifer Jacobs, Sumit Gogia, Radomír Měch, Joel Brandt
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Using Runtime Traces to Improve Documentation and Unit Test Authoring for Dynamic Languages [local] [video]
Jan-Peter Krämer, Joel Brandt, Jan Borchers
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Selective Undo Support for Painting Applications [local] [video]
Brad A. Myers, Ashley Lai, Tam Minh Le, YoungSeok Yoon, Andrew Faulring, Joel Brandt
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

InterState: A Language and Environment for Expressing Interface Behavior [local] [video]
Stephen Oney, Joel Brandt, Brad Myers
UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Addressing Misconceptions About Code with Always-On Programming Visualizations [local] [video]
Tom Lieber, Joel Brandt, Robert C. Miller
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Combining Crowdsourcing and Learning to Improve Engagement and Performance [local]
Mira Dontcheva, Robert Morris, Joel Brandt, Elizabeth M. Gerber
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Emergent, Crowd-scale Programming Practice in the IDE [local]
Ethan Fast, Daniel Steffee, Lucy Wang, Joel Brandt, Michael S. Bernstein
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

ConstraintJS: Programming Interactive Behaviors for the Web by Integrating Constraints and States [local] [video]
Stephen Oney, Joel Brandt, Brad Myers
UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

SnipMatch: Using Source Code Context to Enhance Snippet Retrieval and Parameterization [local] [video]
Doug Wightman, Zi Ye, Joel Brandt, Roel Vertegaal
UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Codelets: Linking Interactive Documentation and Example Code in the Editor [local] [doi] [video]
Stephen Oney, Joel Brandt
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Analytic Methods for Optimizing Realtime Crowdsourcing [local] [arXiv]
Michael S. Bernstein, Joel Brandt, David R. Karger, Robert C. Miller
CI: Collective Intelligence

Crowds in Two Seconds: Enabling Realtime Crowd-Powered Interfaces [local] [doi] [video]
Michael S. Bernstein, Joel Brandt, Robert C. Miller, and David R. Karger
UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

What Would Other Programmers Do? Suggesting Solutions to Error Messages (Best Paper Honorable Mention) [local] [doi] [video]
Bjoern Hartmann, Daniel MacDougall, Joel Brandt, Scott R. Klemmer
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Example-Centric Programming: Integrating Web Search into the Development Environment (Best Paper Honorable Mention) [local] [doi] [video]
Joel Brandt, Mira Dontcheva, Marcos Weskamp, Scott R. Klemmer
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Two Studies of Opportunistic Programming: Interleaving Web Foraging, Learning, and Writing Code (Best Paper Honorable Mention) [local] [doi]
Joel Brandt, Philip Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Mira Dontcheva, Scott R. Klemmer
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Opportunistic Programming: Writing Code to Prototype, Ideate, and Discover [local] [doi]
Joel Brandt, Philip Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Mira Dontcheva, Scott R. Klemmer
IEEE Software, 26 (5), 18-24.

Creating Small Products at a Big Company: Adobe’s “Pipeline” Innovation Process [local]
Rob J. Adams, Bradee Evans, Joel Brandt
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

A Print Magazine on Any Screen: The Wired App Story [local] [doi]
Jeremy Clark, Joel Brandt
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Dynamic Brushes: Extending Manual Drawing Practices with Artist-Centric Programming Tools [doi]
Jennifer Jacobs, Joel R. Brandt, Radomír Měch, Mitchel Resnick
CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Digital Craftsmanship: HCI Takes on Technology as an Expressive Medium [local]
Jennifer Jacobs, David Mellis, Amit Zoran, Cesar Torres, Joel Brandt, Joshua Tanenbaum
Proposal for accepted workshop at DIS: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

An Empirical Study of Programming Paradigms for Animation [local]
Jan-Peter Kraämer, Michael Hennings, Joel Brandt, Jan Borchers
CHASE 2016: Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (Workshop at ICSE 2016)

Euclase: A Live Development Environment with Constraints and FSMs [local]
Stephen Oney, Brad Myers, Joel Brandt
LIVE 2013: First International Workshop on Live Programming (Workshop at ICSE 2013)

Creativity Support in Authoring and Backtracking [local]
Brad A. Myers, Stephen Oney, YoungSeok Yoon, Joel Brandt
ECSE 2013: Evaluation Methods for Creativity Support Environments (Workshop at CHI 2013)

Photoshop with Friends: A Synchronous Learning Community for Graphic Design [local] [doi]
Juho Kim, Benjamin Malley, Joel Brandt, Mira Dontcheva, Diana Joseph, Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Robert C. Miller
Demonstration at CSCW: ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

Remixing The Web: Enhancing Tailoring Using Programmable Proxies [local]
Joel Brandt, Leslie Wu, Scott R. Klemmer
CHI Workshop on End User Programming for the Web

Rehearse: Coding Interactively while Prototyping [local] [video]
William Choi, Joel Brandt, Scott R. Klemmer
Poster at UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Opportunistic Programming: How Rapid Ideation and Prototyping Occur in Practice [local]
Joel Brandt, Philip J. Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Scott R. Klemmer
Fourth Workshop on End-User Software Engineering at ICSE: International Conference on Software Engineering

txt 4 l8r: lowering the burden for diary studies under mobile conditions [local] [doi]
Joel Brandt, Noah Weiss, Scott R. Klemmer
Work-in-Progress at CHI: ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Lash-Ups: A Toolkit for Location-Aware Mash-Ups [local] [poster] [video]
Joel Brandt, Scott R. Klemmer
Poster at UIST: ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Interactive Gigapixel Prints: Large, Paper-Based Interfaces for Visual Context and Collaboration [local] [video]
Ron Yeh, Joel Brandt, Jonas Boli, and Scott R Klemmer
Video demonstration at UbiComp: International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing

Example-Centric Programming: Integrating Web Search into the Development Process [local]
PhD Thesis, Stanford University
Advisor: Scott R. Klemmer, Readers: Mira Dontcheva, John Ousterhout, Terry Winograd

What A Mesh: Dependent Data Types for Correct Mesh Manipulation Algorithms [local]
Masters Thesis, Washington University in St. Louis
Readers: Aaron Stump, Cindy Grimm, Sally Goldman

How the Web Helps People Turn Ideas Into Code
Joel Brandt, Philip Guo, Joel Lewenstein, Mira Dontcheva, Scott R. Klemmer
In No Code Required: Giving Users Tools to Transform the Web, edited by Cypher, A., Dontcheva, M., Lau, T., Nichols, J., Kaufmann, M

Video Segmentation based on Detected Video Features using a Graphical Model
Hijung Shin, Cristin Ailidh Fraser, Aseem Agarwala, Lubomira Dontcheva, Joel Richard Brandt, Jovan Popovic
US Patent No. 11,430,127 · Issued September 27, 2022

Segmentation and Hierarchical Clustering of Video
Hijung Shin, Xue Bai, Aseem Agarwala, Joel R. Brandt, Jovan Popovic, Lubomira Dontcheva, Dingzeyu Li, Joy Oakyung Kim, Seth Walker
US Patent No. 11,450,112 · Issued September 20, 2022

(Continuation) Inter-Context Coordination to Facilitate Synchronized Presentation of Image Content
Ian Wehrman, John Fitzgerald, Joel Brandt, Jesper Bache, David Tristram, Barkin Aygun
US Patent No. 10,908,764 · Issued February 2, 2021

Video Reformatting System
Joel Brandt, Giles Goodwin, Jared Iwata, Ian Wehrman
US Patent No. 10,887,542 · Issued January 5, 2021

(Continuation) Undo, Redo, and State Switching Using Content-Addressable Data Structures
David P. Simons, James Acquavella, Gregory Evans, Joel Brandt
US Patent No. 10,402,481 · Issued September 3, 2019

User Interface Creation from Screenshots
Morgan Dixon, Lubomira Dontcheva, Joel Brandt, Amanda Swearngin
US Patent No. 10,360,473 · Issued July 23, 2019

Inter-Context Coordination to Facilitate Synchronized Presentation of Image Content
Ian Wehrman, John Fitzgerald, Joel Brandt, Jesper Bache, David Tristram, Barkin Aygun
US Patent No. 10,073,583 · Issued September 11, 2018

Undo, Redo, and State Switching Using Content-Addressable Data Structures
David P. Simons, James Acquavella, Gregory Evans, Joel Brandt
US Patent No. 9,842,094 · Issued December 12, 2017

Methods and Apparatus for Code Segment Handling
Joel Brandt, Stephen Oney
US Patent No. 9,495,134 · Issued November 15, 2016

Best Paper Honorable Mention · ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Paper Title: Implementing Multi-Touch Gestures with Touch Groups and Cross Events

Best Paper · ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Paper Title: Extending Manual Drawing Practices with Artist-Centric Programming Tools

Best Paper · ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Paper Title: Supporting Expressive Procedural Art Creation through Direct Manipulation

Best Paper Honorable Mention · ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Paper Title: Example-Centric Programming: Integrating Web Search into the Programming Environment

Best Paper Honorable Mention · ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Paper Title: What Would Other Programmers Do? Suggesting Solutions to Error Messages

Best Paper Honorable Mention · ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Paper Title: Two Studies of Opportunistic Programming: Interleaving Web Foraging, Learning, and Writing Code

Stanford Graduate Fellowship · Stanford University

Stanford School of Engineering Fellowship · Stanford University

Pace Fellowship · Washington University in St. Louis
Merit-based full tuition scholarship for undergraduate study

NSF Undergraduate Research Fellowship · Washington University in St. Louis

Stanford CS147L · Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction Design (Lab)
Head instructor, course designer
Designed and taught course on Web development and design

Stanford CS376 · Research Topics in Human-Computer Interaction
Head Teaching Assistant

Stanford CS147 · Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction Design
Head Teaching Assistant
First year of course redesign

Jennifer Jacobs · PhD Student, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Generals Committee, Reading and Oral Examination Committees
Thesis title: Dynamic Drawing: Broadening Practice and Participation in Procedural Art

Jan-Peter Krämer · PhD Student, RWTH Aachen University
Reading and Oral Examination Committees
Thesis title: Interacting with Code: Observations, Models, and Tools for Usable Software Development Environments

Stephen Oney · PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University
Reading and Oral Examination Committees
Thesis title: Expressing Interactivity with States and Constraints

Amanda Swearngin · PhD Student, University of Washington

Jennifer Jacobs · PhD Student, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Sumit Gogia · MS Student, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jan-Peter Krämer · PhD Student, RWTH Aachen University

Victor Santos Uceta · PhD Student, Purdue University

Dennis Kehrig · Diplom-Informatiker (Masters) Student, RWTH Aachen University

Thomas Lieber · PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Stephen Oney · PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University

Ian Wehrman · Postdoc Researcher, University of Texas at Austin

Jonathan Diehl · PhD Student, RWTH Aachen University

Robert Morris · PhD Student, Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Juho Kim · PhD Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suryaveer Singh Lodha · Masters Student, UC Berkeley

Ayden Ye · Masters Student, UC Berkeley

Yin-Chia Yeh · Masters Student, UC Berkeley

Michael Bernstein (Stanford), Jan Borchers (RWTH Aachen), William Choi (Stanford), Mira Dontcheva (Adobe), Ethan Fast (Stanford), Krzysztof Gajos (Harvard), Sumit Gogia (MIT Media Lab), Philip Guo (Stanford/MIT/Rochester), Bjoern Hartmann (UC Berkeley), Jennifer Jacobs (MIT Media Lab), David Karger (MIT), Dennis Kehrig (RWTH Aachen), Juho Kim (MIT), Scott Klemmer (Stanford/UCSD), Jan-Peter Krämer (RWTH Aachen), Joel Lewenstein (Stanford), Thomas Lieber (MIT), Daniel MacDougall (Stanford), Robert Miller (MIT), Robert Morris (MIT), Brad Myers (CMU), Stephen Oney (CMU), Victor Santos Uceta (Purdue), Amanda Swearngin (University of Washington), Ian Wehrman (UT Austin), Doug Wightman (Queens University, Ontario), Noah Weiss (Stanford), Leslie Wu (Stanford), Ron Yeh (Stanford)

Keynote at VISSOFT 2016: IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization · Raleigh, NC

Carnegie-Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar · Pittsburg, PA

Segal Design Institute Seminar at Northwestern University · Evanston, IL

Berkeley Institute of Design Seminar · Berkeley, CA

MIT Human-Computer Interaction Seminar · Cambridge, MA

Carnegie-Mellon University Human-Computer Interaction Seminar · Pittsburg, PA

UC Boulder Human-Computer Interaction Seminar · Boulder, CO

UIST Program Committee · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

CHI Program Committee · Specific Application Areas Subcommittee, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

UIST Program Committee · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

VL/HCC Program Committee · IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing

WWW Research Track Program Committee · User Interfaces, Human Factors, and Smart (Mobile) Devices Track, International World Wide Web Conference

UIST Program Committee · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

HCOMP Program Committee · AAAI Human Computation Workshop

UIST Program Committee · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

CHI Work-in-Progress Program Committee · ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Reviewing · CHI, ToCHI, UIST, CSCW, HCOMP, WWW, IUI, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Magazine

ScrumMaster · Scrum Alliance

Adobe Photoshop Generator · https://github.com/adobe-photoshop/generator-core
JavaScript extensibility layer for Photoshop

Brackets · https://github.com/adobe/brackets
Code editor focusing on HTML, CSS, and JS development

ConstraintJS · https://github.com/soney/ConstraintJS
JavaScript library for constraint-based definition of interactivity

Reveal.js · https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js
HTML Presentation Framework

Node · https://github.com/joyent/node
JavaScript runtime for servers

JSHint · https://github.com/jshint/jshint
JavaScript static analyzer and linter