Austin Z. Henley

I work on developer tools at Microsoft as a Senior Program Manager on the PROSE team.

Previously, I was a professor at the University of Tennessee where I led a research group working on the usability of developer tools.

1/22: I've joined Microsoft and resigned from my faculty position at the University of Tennessee.
1/22: I declined the NSF CAREER Award.
9/21: I've been invited to the Dagstuhl Seminar on Theories of Programming.
7/21: My PhD student, Joseph Connor, has successfully defended!
6/21: I was featured on the Stack Overflow podcast to discuss Information Foraging Theory.
8/20: I was awarded an NSF grant with Anita Sarma on "Adaptive Development Environments: Modeling and Supporting Cognitive Styles of Software Developers".
3/20: Our CHI paper on computational notebooks has received a Best Paper Honorable Mention Award.
12/19: I've been invited to the Dagstuhl Seminar on Theories of Programming.
5/19: I'll be joining Microsoft as a Visiting Researcher with the PROSE group.
3/19: I was awarded an NSF grant on "Overcoming Novice Programmers' Misconceptions of Program Behavior".