Bhavya Chopra

Bhavya Chopra

PhD Student, UC Berkeley

Hello! I am Bhavya Chopra, a second year CS PhD student at the EPIC Data Lab, advised by Prof. Aditya Parameswaran at University of California, Berkeley. I am interested in designing and building interactive systems to support data science workflows.

βœˆοΈπŸ‡°πŸ‡· Looking forward to attending UIST 2025 and sharing our work on DataScout and DocWrangler!

I recently interned with Tableau Research, where I was thrilled to be mentored by Arjun Srinivasan. Previously, I was a Research Fellow with the PROSE Team at Microsoft, advised by Austin Z. Henley, Chris Parnin, and Anna Fariha. My work focused on identifying challenges in conversational and recommendation-based AI systems for data science; and exploring agent-based frameworks to enable collaborative debugging with LLMs.

Before that, I completed my bachelors in Computer Science and Design engineering (with honors) from IIIT-Delhi in 2022. I developed interfaces for inclusive and immersive storytelling experiences for children with visual impairments, and also learnt program analysis techniques to study the use of assertions in Java open-source repositories.

Selected Publications

Shreya Shankar*, Bhavya Chopra*, Mawil Hasan, Stephen Lee, BjΓΆrn Hartmann, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Aditya G. Parameswaran, Eugene Wu
To appear at UIST 2025 β€’ Best Paper Honorable Mention
Rachel Lin*, Bhavya Chopra*, Wenjing Lin, Shreya Shankar, Madelon Hulsebos, Aditya G. Parameswaran
To appear at UIST 2025
Mert Cemri*, Melissa Z Pan*, Shuyi Yang*, Lakshya A Agrawal, Bhavya Chopra, Rishabh Tiwari, Kurt Keutzer, Aditya G. Parameswaran, Dan Klein, Kannan Ramchandran, Matei Zaharia, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Ion Stoica
To appear at NeurIPS 2025 β€’ Spotlight at Datasets and Benchmarks Track
Bhavya Chopra, Ananya Singha, Anna Fariha, Sumit Gulwani, Chris Parnin, Ashish Tiwari, Austin Z. Henley
Workshop on Human-In-the-Loop Data Analytics (HILDA), SIGMOD 2025 β€’ featured on Austin's blog
Yasharth Bajpai, Bhavya Chopra, Param Biyani, Cagri Aslan, Dustin Coleman, Sumit Gulwani, Chris Parnin, Arjun Radhakrishna, Gustavo Soares
VL/HCC 2024 β€’ Best Paper Award β€’ featured on Microsoft Reseach Focus Blog and Microsoft New Future of Work Report 2024
Ananya Singha, Bhavya Chopra, Anirudh Khatry, Sumit Gulwani, Austin Z. Henley, Vu Le, Chris Parnin, Mukul Singh, Gust Verbruggen
LLM4Code Workshop, ICSE 2024 β€’ Best Paper Award β€’ featured on Microsoft Reseach Focus Blog
Nischal Shrestha, Bhavya Chopra, Austin Z. Henley, Chris Parnin
VL/HCC 2023 β€’ Best Paper Award
Bhavya Chopra, Anna Fariha, Sumit Gulwani, Austin Z. Henley, Daniel Perelman, Mohammad Raza, Sherry Shi, Danny Simmons, Ashish Tiwari
SIGMOD 2023 Demonstration
Bhavya Chopra*, Khushali Verma*, Sonali Singhal*, Utsav Singla*
CHI 2021 Student Research Competition β€’ Second Position (undergraduate category)

Academic Service

Teaching Assistant at IIIT-Delhi

Program Analysis (CSE503), Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction (DES102)

Reviewing

UIST 2025, CHI 2024 Late-Breaking Work, CHI 2023, CHI 2022 Late-Breaking Work

Student Volunteering

CSCW 2022, CHI PLAY 2022, CSCW 2021, IndiaHCI 2021

Selected Software Projects

Plants versus Zombies game screenshot

Plants versus Zombies: Strategy Video Game

Re-implemented Plants vs Zombies in Java, following object-oriented programming principles.

TechTree course dependency graph

TechTree: Course Repository for IIIT-Delhi

Designed, developed, and hosted TechTree for the academic department and faculty at IIIT-Delhi to maintain and share descriptions of over 350 courses with students. TechTree enables 3000+ students every semester to plan their courses through visualization of course pre-requisites via interactive tables and directed acyclic graphs.