Collin McMillan

Collin McMillan, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Notre Dame's College of Engineering. He earned his Ph.D. from William & Mary under Denys Poshyvanyk. His research focuses on software engineering and natural language processing, particularly in automated documentation generation, program comprehension, and human-AI collaboration in code analysis.

Education: Ph.D. in Computer Science (William & Mary), advised by Denys Poshyvanyk. His work integrates eye-tracking studies, neural networks, and graph-based models to improve code summarization and developer tooling.

Research interests include source code summarization, developer behavior analysis, privacy behavior detection in Android apps, and tools for program comprehension. His lab, the Automatic Program Comprehension Lab (APCL), develops datasets and tools like CodeGRITS, available via Huggingface and GitHub.

Publications span 2007–2025, emphasizing developer-centric AI models, code summarization techniques, and empirical studies on programmer attention. Key themes include context-aware models, eye-tracking integration, and LLM applications in software engineering.

• Awards: ASEE Teaching Award (2020), NSF CAREER Award (2015), Distinguished Paper Award (2021).
• Grants: NSF funding for AI/SE integration, totaling over $2.5M since 2015.
• Service: Associate Editor for TSE and EMSE, program committee roles at ICSE, FSE, and ASE.

Current students include Maria Dhakal (2023), Robert Wallace (2023), and Chia-Yi Su (2022). Graduates have moved to faculty positions (e.g., Clemson University) and industry roles at Google, Qualtrics, and Ascend Health.