Track 3: Interactive and Aligned IDEs in the LLM Era

Track leader at TU Delft: Maliheh Izadi (Assistant Professor)
Track leader at JetBrains: Agnia Sergeyuk (HAX Team Lead)
Phd researcher(s): Agnia Sergeyuk (JetBrains) and Ziyou Li (TU Delft)

An essential part of the success of tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT is their interface. While some of these models’ capabilities were already available, the tools brought them to larger audiences without dramatically disrupting their workflows or requiring many additional steps. IDE users have their own workflows, and the injection of new complex features, such as LLM-based ones, is a non-trivial task. We believe that there is significant space for innovation in the field of Human-AI interaction. While chat is a popular and user-friendly way to use LLMs, we believe there are better ways to use them in IDEs.

The goal of this project is to embed emerging LLM practices as code generation or agentic capabilities into the developer workflow without disturbing the user and improving her productivity.

MSc Students:

• Nadine Kuo (graduated in 2025): Thesis
• Remco Schrijver (graduated in 2024): Thesis
• Frank van der Heijden (graduated in 2024): Thesis
• Andrei Ionescu (graduated in 2024): Thesis

Scientific Developer

• Roham Koohestani: Honours BSc student

Track News

Publications

1. Authors anonymized for review. ATP: the Agentic Transfer Protocol. Submitted to the NeurIPS Workshop on Foundations of Agentic Systems Theory (FAST), 2026
2. Ziyou Li, Răzvan Mihai Popescu, and Maliheh Izadi. Silent Reliance or Diligent Review? Human-Agent Engagement and Interaction Patterns in GitHub. Journal Ahead Workshop (JAWs), co-located with ICSE, 2026
3. Nadine Kuo, Agnia Sergeyuk, Valerie Chen, and Maliheh Izadi. Developer Interaction Patterns with Proactive AI: A Five-Day Field Study. ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2026
4. Agnia Sergeyuk, Ilya Zakharov, Ekaterina Koshchenko, and Maliheh Izadi. Human-AI Experience in Integrated Development Environments: A Systematic Literature Review. Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE), 31, Article 55, 2026
5. Agnia Sergeyuk, Ekaterina Koshchenko, Ilya Zakharov, Timofey Bryksin, and Maliheh Izadi. Developer Needs and Feasible Features for AI Assistants in IDEs. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE — Software Engineering in Practice), 2026
6. Roham Koohestani, Ateş Görpelioğlu, Egor Klimov, Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan, and Maliheh Izadi. TriCEGAR: A Trace-Driven Abstraction Mechanism for Agentic AI. arXiv preprint, 2026
7. Roham Koohestani, Ziyou Li, Anton Podkopaev, and Maliheh Izadi. Are Agents Probabilistic Automata? A Trace-Based, Memory-Constrained Theory of Agentic AI. arXiv preprint, revised; resubmitted to Formal Aspects of Computing (FAC), 2026
8. Roham Koohestani. AgentGuard: Runtime Verification of AI Agents. First International Workshop on Autonomous Agents in Software Engineering (AgenticSE Workshop), co-located with the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE), 2025
9. Ziyou Li, Agnia Sergeyuk, and Maliheh Izadi. Prompt-with-Me: in-IDE Structured Prompt Management for LLM-Driven Software Engineering. 40th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE — Industry Showcase), 2025
10. Ilya Zakharov, Liudmila Piatnitckaia, Anastasiia Birillo, Agnia Sergeyuk, and Maliheh Izadi. When People Come First, A Human-Centered Approach to Computer Science Education. ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE — Panel contribution), 2025
11. Ziyou Li and Maliheh Izadi. Enhancing Human-IDE Interaction in the SDLC using LLM-based Mediator Agents. First International Workshop on AI-Augmented SDLC (AI-SDLC Workshop), co-located with the ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE), 2025
12. Ziyou Li. Mediating between Human Programmers and Integrated Development Environments using LLM-based Agents. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE — Doctoral Symposium), 2025
13. Roham Koohestani and Maliheh Izadi. HyperSeq: A Hyper-Adaptive Representation for Predictive Sequencing of States. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE — Ideas, Visions and Reflections), 2025
14. Andrei-Cristian Ionescu, Sergey Titov, and Maliheh Izadi. A Multi-agent Onboarding Assistant based on Large Language Models, Retrieval Augmented Generation, and Chain-of-Thought. ACM International Conference on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE — Demonstration), 2025
15. Roham Koohestani and Maliheh Izadi. Rethinking IDE Customization for Enhanced HAX: A Hyperdimensional Perspective. Second Workshop on Integrated Development Environments (IDE Workshop), co-located with ICSE, 2025
16. Aral de Moor, Arie van Deursen, and Maliheh Izadi. A Transformer-Based Approach for Smart Invocation of Automatic Code Completion. First ACM International Conference on AI-Powered Software (AIWare), co-located with FSE; ACM Distinguished Paper Award, 2024
17. Agnia Sergeyuk, Sergey Titov, and Maliheh Izadi. In-IDE Human-AI Experience in the Era of Large Language Models: A Literature Review. First Workshop on Integrated Development Environments (IDE Workshop), co-located with ICSE, 2024