Celeste Barnaby

PhD student · Computer Science · UT Austin

Email: celestebarnaby at gmail.com

I am a fifth-year PhD student in computer science at the University of Texas at Austin. I work in the UToPiA group led by Isil Dillig. I am an NSF GRFP Fellow. My research involves combining ideas from machine learning and formal methods.

Previously, I was a software engineer at Meta from 2018-2021. In summer 2024 I interned with the PROSE team at Microsoft. My CV is available here.

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Publications

Last update: April 2026

  1. Choose, Don't Label: Multiple-Choice Query Synthesis for Program Disambiguation
    Celeste Barnaby, Danny Ding, Osbert Bastani, Isil Dillig
    PLDI 2026
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  2. Active Learning for Neurosymbolic Program Synthesis
    Celeste Barnaby, Jocelyn Chen, Ramya Ramalingam, Osbert Bastani, Isil Dillig
    OOPSLA 2025
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  3. PhotoScout: Synthesis-Powered Multi-Modal Image Search
    Celeste Barnaby, Jocelyn Chen, Chenglong Wang, Isil Dillig
    CHI 2024
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  4. ImageEye: Batch Image Processing Using Program Synthesis
    Celeste Barnaby, Jocelyn Chen, Roopsha Samanta, Isil Dillig
    PLDI 2023
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  5. Type-Directed Synthesis of Visualizations from Natural Language Queries
    Jocelyn Chen, Shankara Pailoor, Celeste Barnaby, Abby Criswell, Chenglong Wang, Greg Durrett, Isil Dillig
    OOPSLA 2022
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  6. PLIERS: A Process that Integrates User-Centered Methods into Programming Language Design
    Michael Coblenz, Gauri Kambhatla, Paulette Koronkevich, Jenna L. Wise, Celeste Barnaby, Joshua Sunshine, Jonathan Alrich, Brad A. Meyers
    CHI 2021
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  7. Exempla Gratis (E.G.): Code Examples for Free
    Celeste Barnaby, Koushik Sen, Tianyi Zhang, Elena Glassman, Satish Chandra
    FSE Industry Track 2020
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  8. Aroma: Code Recommendation via Structural Code Search
    Sifei Luan, Di Yang, Celeste Barnaby, Koushik Sen, Satish Chandra
    OOPSLA 2019
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