Tommaso

News

Recent updates, achievements, and announcements.

  1. 🎉 Three extended abstracts accepted at CHI EA 2026 in Barcelona: CAT-AI on AI-assisted exercise creation for teachers, WebUI-95 on normalized web interfaces via UI-to-code generation, and SemAcces on measuring the semantic accessibility gap in LLM-generated web UIs. See you in Barcelona!

  2. ✨ Our paper MorphGUI: Real-time GUIs Customization with Large Language Models is now published in the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies! MorphGUI lets end-users reshape live graphical interfaces through natural language, powered by large language models.

  3. 🎓 I successfully defended my PhD dissertation on July 14.

    Dissertation teaser
  4. 🏆 Thrilled to announce that our paper From Web to Figma received the Best Late Breaking Result Award at EICS Companion 2025!

  5. 🧠 Excited to share that our paper Advancing Code Generation from Visual Designs through Transformer-Based Architectures and Specialized Datasets has been accepted at PACM EICS 2025! We explore multimodal transformers and new datasets to automate code generation from sketches and mockups.

  6. 🛠 Thrilled to share that our paper DeepFlow: A Flow-Based Visual Programming Tool for Deep Learning Development was accepted at IUI 2025! DeepFlow enables scalable model design through hierarchical abstraction and supports interactive debugging to validate architectures before execution.

  7. 📝 Excited to announce that our paper Investigating How Computer Science Researchers Design Their Co‑Writing Experiences With AI was accepted at CHI 2025! We studied how researchers adapt and integrate intelligent writing assistants into their scientific writing workflows.

  8. 📚 Delivered an invited talk on “End-User Development for User Interfaces” in Prof. Hoffman’s CS 568 - AI in Adaptive Educational Technology course at Worcester University. The lecture explored approaches for empowering non-programmers to customize and create interactive interfaces, emphasizing practical applications in educational technology.

  9. 🎓 Sharing my final PhD research poster titled “From Human Representations to AI Realization: Algorithms and Tools for Creating and Refining Interactive Systems” at the upcoming PhD Computer and Control Engineering - DAUIN Poster Day. The poster will be presented on November 6th, 2024 at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering.