Publications

Agents in the Wild: Where Research Meets Deployment

@misc{yang2026agents,
  title = {Agents in the Wild: Where Research Meets Deployment},
  author = {Grace Hui Yang and Pranav N. Venkit and Hooman Sedghamiz and Enrico Santus and Victor Dibia and Ioana Baldini},
  howpublished = {KDD 2026 (Tutorial)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.19336}
}

Data Health Evaluation Using Generative Language Models

@misc{dibia2026data,
  title = {Data Health Evaluation Using Generative Language Models},
  author = {Victor Chukwuma Dibia and Chenglong Wang and Bongshin Lee and Jeevana Priya Inala and John Thompson},
  howpublished = {Patent (Granted Mar 2026)},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://patents.google.com/patent/US12579115B2/en}
}

Designing Multi-Agent Systems: Principles, Patterns and Implementation for AI Agents

@book{dibia2025designing,
  title = {Designing Multi-Agent Systems: Principles, Patterns and Implementation for AI Agents},
  author = {Victor Dibia},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://www.google.com/books/edition/Designing_Multi_Agent_Systems/KmyXEQAAQBAJ}
}

Using Large Generative Models to Improve the Performance of Weak Language Models in Performing Complex Tasks

@misc{boateng2025using,
  title = {Using Large Generative Models to Improve the Performance of Weak Language Models in Performing Complex Tasks},
  author = {Emmanuel Aboah Boateng and Victor Chukwuma Dibia and Cassiano Otavio Becker and Ehimwenma Nosakhare and Nabiha Asghar and Chyna Linn McRae and Anusha Nandam and Omisa Jinsi and Tianwei Chen and Mauricio Cunille Blando and Soundararajan Srinivasan and Damien S Jose and Kabir Walia and Ashwin Srinivasan and Vipul Agarwal and Ananth Rampura Sheshagiri Rao},
  howpublished = {Patent},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://patents.justia.com/patent/20250348745}
}

Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-loop Agentic Systems

@misc{mozannar2025magentic,
  title = {Magentic-UI: Towards Human-in-the-loop Agentic Systems},
  author = {Hussein Mozannar and Gagan Bansal and Cheng Tan and Adam Fourney and Victor Dibia and Jingya Chen and Jack Gerrits and Tyler Payne and Matheus Kunzler Maldaner and Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin and Eric Zhu and Griffin Bassman and Jacob Alber and Peter Chang and Ricky Loynd and Friederike Niedtner and Ece Kamar and Maya Murad and Rafah Hosn and Saleema Amershi},
  howpublished = {arXiv preprint},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/html/2507.22358v1}
}

Concept Distillation from Strong to Weak Models via Hypotheses-to-Theories Prompting

@inproceedings{boateng2025concept,
  title = {Concept Distillation from Strong to Weak Models via Hypotheses-to-Theories Prompting},
  author = {Emmanuel Aboah Boateng and Cassiano O. Becker and Nabiha Asghar and Kabir Walia and Ashwin Srinivasan and Ehi Nosakhare and Victor Dibia and Soundar Srinivasan},
  booktitle = {NAACL 2025},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.09365}
}

Interactive Debugging and Steering of Multi-Agent AI Systems

@inproceedings{epperson2025interactive,
  title = {Interactive Debugging and Steering of Multi-Agent AI Systems},
  author = {Will Epperson and Gagan Bansal and Victor Dibia and Adam Fourney and Jack Gerrits and Erkang Zhu and Saleema Amershi},
  booktitle = {CHI 2025},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://chi2025.acm.org/}
}

AI Fatigue: Reflections on the Human Side of AI's Rapid Advancement

@article{dibia2025fatigue,
  title = {AI Fatigue: Reflections on the Human Side of AI's Rapid Advancement},
  author = {Victor Dibia},
  journal = {Communications of the ACM},
  year = {2025},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3734515}
}

Challenges in Human-Agent Communication

@techreport{bansal2024challenges,
  title = {Challenges in Human-Agent Communication},
  author = {Gagan Bansal and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan and Saleema Amershi and Eric Horvitz and Adam Fourney and Hussein Mozannar and Victor Dibia and Daniel S. Weld},
  institution = {Microsoft Research Technical Report},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/human-agent-interaction-challenges/}
}

Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks

@techreport{fourney2024magentic,
  title = {Magentic-One: A Generalist Multi-Agent System for Solving Complex Tasks},
  author = {Adam Fourney and Gagan Bansal and Hussein Mozannar and Cheng Tan and Eduardo Salinas and Erkang (Eric) Zhu and Friederike Niedtner and Grace Proebsting and Griffin Bassman and Jack Gerrits and Jacob Alber and Peter Chang and Ricky Loynd and Robert West and Victor Dibia and Ahmed Awadallah and Ece Kamar and Rafah Hosn and Saleema Amershi},
  institution = {Microsoft Research Technical Report},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://aka.ms/magentic-one}
}

Data Analysis in the Era of Generative AI

@misc{inala2024data,
  title = {Data Analysis in the Era of Generative AI},
  author = {Jeevana Priya Inala and Chenglong Wang and Steven Drucker and Gonzalo Ramos and Victor Dibia and Nathalie Riche and Dave Brown and Dan Marshall and Jianfeng Gao},
  howpublished = {arXiv preprint},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.18475}
}

AutoGen Studio: A No-Code Developer Tool for Building and Debugging Multi-Agent Systems

@inproceedings{dibia2024autogen,
  title = {AutoGen Studio: A No-Code Developer Tool for Building and Debugging Multi-Agent Systems},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Jingya Chen and Gagan Bansal and Suff Syed and Adam Fourney and Erkang Zhu and Chi Wang and Saleema Amershi},
  booktitle = {EMNLP 2024},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15247}
}

Towards better Human-Agent Alignment: Assessing Task Utility in LLM-Powered Applications

@misc{arabzadeh2024towards,
  title = {Towards better Human-Agent Alignment: Assessing Task Utility in LLM-Powered Applications},
  author = {Negar Arabzadeh and Julia Kiseleva and Qingyun Wu and Chi Wang and Ahmed Awadallah and Victor Dibia and Adam Fourney and Charles Clarke},
  howpublished = {arXiv preprint},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09015}
}

Coding activity task (cat) evaluation for source code generators

@misc{dibia2024coding,
  title = {Coding activity task (cat) evaluation for source code generators},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Adam Fourney and Forough POURSABZI SANGDEH and Saleema Amin Amershi},
  howpublished = {Patent (Granted Mar 2025)},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://patents.google.com/patent/US12254293B2/en}
}

Axiomatic Preference Modeling for Longform Question Answering

@inproceedings{rosset2023axiomatic,
  title = {Axiomatic Preference Modeling for Longform Question Answering},
  author = {Corby Rosset and Guoqing Zheng and Victor Dibia and Ahmed Awadallah and Paul Bennett},
  booktitle = {EMNLP 2023},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.02206}
}

Applied machine learning prototypes for hybrid cloud data platform and approaches to developing, personalizing, and implementing the same

@misc{thomas2023applied,
  title = {Applied machine learning prototypes for hybrid cloud data platform and approaches to developing, personalizing, and implementing the same},
  author = {Sushil Thomas and Jeanne Schaser and Andrew Reed and Melanie Beck and Alex Bleakley and Yuya Yabe and Yi Hsun Tsai and Patrick David Hunt and Subhadeep Sinha and Victor Dibia and Christopher James Wallace and Jeffrey George Fletcher and Ofek Gila},
  howpublished = {Patent},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230267377A1/en}
}

Automated generation of data visualizations and infographics using large language models and diffusion models

@misc{dibia2023automated,
  title = {Automated generation of data visualizations and infographics using large language models and diffusion models},
  author = {Victor Chukwuma Dibia},
  howpublished = {Patent (Granted Jan 2026)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://patents.google.com/patent/US12518447B2/en}
}

Embedded Attributes for Modifying Behaviors of Generative AI Systems

@misc{amershi2023embedded,
  title = {Embedded Attributes for Modifying Behaviors of Generative AI Systems},
  author = {Saleema Amin Amershi and Adam Fourney and Victor Chukwuma Dibia and Gagan Bansal},
  howpublished = {Microsoft Patent (Granted Sep 2025)},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://patents.google.com/patent/US12423338B2/en}
}

LIDA: A Tool for Automatic Generation of Grammar-Agnostic Visualizations and Infographics using Large Language Models

@inproceedings{dibia2023lida,
  title = {LIDA: A Tool for Automatic Generation of Grammar-Agnostic Visualizations and Infographics using Large Language Models},
  author = {Victor Dibia},
  booktitle = {Demos Track},
  year = {2023},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02927}
}

The Aleph & Other Metaphors for Image Generation

@inproceedings{ramos2022aleph,
  title = {The Aleph & Other Metaphors for Image Generation},
  author = {Gonzalo Ramos and Rick Barraza and Victor Dibia and Sharon Lo},
  booktitle = {HCAI Workshop},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/the-aleph-other-metaphors-for-image-generation/}
}

Aligning Offline Metrics and Human Judgments of Value of AI-Pair Programmers

@inproceedings{dibia2022aligning,
  title = {Aligning Offline Metrics and Human Judgments of Value of AI-Pair Programmers},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Adam Fourney and Gagan Bansal and Forough Poursabzi-Sangdeh and Han Liu and Saleema Amershi},
  year = {2022},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.16494}
}

NeuralQA: A Usable Library for Question Answering (Contextual Query Expansion + BERT) on Large Datasets

@inproceedings{dibia2020neuralqa,
  title = {NeuralQA: A Usable Library for Question Answering (Contextual Query Expansion + BERT) on Large Datasets},
  author = {Victor Dibia},
  year = {2020},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2007.15211.pdf}
}

Data2Vis: Automatic Generation of Data Visualizations Using Sequence-to-Sequence Recurrent Neural Networks

@article{dibia2019data,
  title = {Data2Vis: Automatic Generation of Data Visualizations Using Sequence-to-Sequence Recurrent Neural Networks},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Cagatay Demiralp},
  journal = {IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8744242}
}

An embodied cognitive assistant for visualizing and analyzing exoplanet data

@article{kephart2019embodied,
  title = {An embodied cognitive assistant for visualizing and analyzing exoplanet data},
  author = {Jeffrey O. Kephart and Victor Dibia and Jason Ellis and Biplav Srivastava and Kartik Talamadupula and Mishal Dholakia},
  journal = {IEEE Internet Computing / AAAI 18},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8744242}
}

Automated Summarization Based on Physiological Data

@misc{dibia2019automated,
  title = {Automated Summarization Based on Physiological Data},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Rachel K.E. Bellamy},
  howpublished = {Patent},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://patents.google.com/patent/US10353996B2/en}
}

Detecting Human Input Activity In a Cognitive Environment Using Wearable Inertia and Audio Sensors

@misc{dibia2019detecting,
  title = {Detecting Human Input Activity In a Cognitive Environment Using Wearable Inertia and Audio Sensors},
  author = {Victor Dibia},
  howpublished = {Patent (Granted Dec 2021)},
  year = {2019},
  url = {https://patents.google.com/patent/US11195118B2/en}
}

Beyond Heuristics: Learning Visualization Design

@inproceedings{saket2018beyond,
  title = {Beyond Heuristics: Learning Visualization Design},
  author = {Bahador Saket and Dominik Moritz and Halden Lin and Victor Dibia and Cagatay Demiralp and Jeffrey Heer},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.06641.pdf}
}

Designing for Democratization: Introducing Novices to Artificial Intelligence Via Maker Kits

@inproceedings{dibia2018designing,
  title = {Designing for Democratization: Introducing Novices to Artificial Intelligence Via Maker Kits},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Aaron Cox and Justin Weisz},
  booktitle = {Arxiv},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.10723}
}

Using Ultraviolet Sensor Data to Determine a Pseudo Location of a User

@misc{dibia2018using,
  title = {Using Ultraviolet Sensor Data to Determine a Pseudo Location of a User},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Rachel K.E. Bellamy},
  howpublished = {Patent},
  year = {2018},
  url = {https://patents.google.com/patent/US10066987B1/en}
}

Tjbot: An Open Source DIY Cardboard Robot for Programming Cognitive Systems

@inproceedings{dibia2017tjbot,
  title = {Tjbot: An Open Source DIY Cardboard Robot for Programming Cognitive Systems},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Maryam Ashoori and Aaron Cox and Justin Weisz},
  booktitle = {Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  year = {2017},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3027063.3052965}
}

Handtrack: A library for prototyping real-time hand tracking interfaces using convolutional neural networks

@inproceedings{dibia2017handtrack,
  title = {Handtrack: A library for prototyping real-time hand tracking interfaces using convolutional neural networks},
  author = {Victor Dibia},
  booktitle = {Arxiv},
  year = {2017},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3027063.3052965}
}

Foqus: A smartwatch application for individuals with adhd and mental health challenges

@inproceedings{dibia2016foqus,
  title = {Foqus: A smartwatch application for individuals with adhd and mental health challenges},
  author = {Victor Dibia},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3027063.3052965}
}

Exploring the potential of wearables to support employment for people with mild cognitive impairment

@inproceedings{dibia2016exploring,
  title = {Exploring the potential of wearables to support employment for people with mild cognitive impairment},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Shari Trewin and Maryam Ashoori and Thomas Erickson},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility},
  year = {2016},
  url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/2700648.2811390}
}

Understanding the disclosure of private healthcare information within online quantified self 2.0 platforms

@inproceedings{zhang2015understanding,
  title = {Understanding the disclosure of private healthcare information within online quantified self 2.0 platforms},
  author = {Jun Zhang and Victor Dibia and Alexey Sodnomov and Paul Benjamin Lowry},
  booktitle = {Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems},
  year = {2015},
  url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2015/140/}
}

Success within App Distribution Platforms: The Contribution of App Diversity and App Cohesivity

@inproceedings{dibia2015success,
  title = {Success within App Distribution Platforms: The Contribution of App Diversity and App Cohesivity},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Christian Wagner},
  booktitle = {Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Hawaii , USA},
  year = {2015},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/7070335}
}

How does information technology capability enable digital transformation? Considering the mediating roles of agility

@inproceedings{dibia2015does,
  title = {How does information technology capability enable digital transformation? Considering the mediating roles of agility},
  author = {Victor Dibia and Lele Kang and Ghazwan Hassna and Shaobo Wei and Paul Benjamin Lowry},
  booktitle = {JAIS Theory Development Workshop},
  year = {2015},
  url = {https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2861425}
}

Evolution of Mobile Money Technologies in Developing Nations: Successes and Lesson

@inproceedings{dibia2014evolution,
  title = {Evolution of Mobile Money Technologies in Developing Nations: Successes and Lesson},
  author = {Victor Dibia},
  booktitle = {Americas Conference On Information Systems (AMCIS)},
  year = {2014},
  url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1147&context=amcis2014}
}

An Affective, Normative and Functional Approach to Designing User Experiences for Wearables

@inproceedings{dibia2014affective,
  title = {An Affective, Normative and Functional Approach to Designing User Experiences for Wearables},
  author = {Victor Dibia},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Information Systems (Pre-ICIS Workshop)},
  year = {2014},
  url = {https://aisel.aisnet.org/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1147&context=amcis2014}
}

Exploring The Effectiveness Of Online Role-Play Gaming In The Acquisition Of Complex And Tacit Knowledge

@article{wagner2013exploring,
  title = {Exploring The Effectiveness Of Online Role-Play Gaming In The Acquisition Of Complex And Tacit Knowledge},
  author = {Christian Wagner and Victor Dibia},
  journal = {Issues in Information Systems},
  year = {2013},
  url = {http://www.iacis.org/conference/proceedings/IACIS_2013_Program.pdf}
}