Aadit Barua

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I’m a research assistant at the University of Pennsylvania working in Andrew Head’s lab, where I’m currently developing tools around reasoning. Before this, I’ve worked with Amy Zhang at the University of Washington helping users to align their social media feeds and with Amy Pavel at The University of Texas at Austin creating a tool for converting long-form videos into short-form videos.

Outside of research, some of my interests include rock climbing, golf, Formula 1, college football, hanging out with friends, and coffee shops.

selected publications

  1. UIST
    Compass: Continuously Aligning Social Media Feeds via In-Situ Reflections
    Aadit Barua*, Leijie Wang*, and Amy X. Zhang
    In Proceedings of the 39th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, 2026
  2. IUI
    Lotus: Creating short videos from long videos with abstractive and extractive summarization
    Aadit Barua*, Karim Benharrak*, Meng Chen, Mina Huh, and Amy Pavel
    In Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2025