Peng Kuang 邝鹏

I’m a WASP-affiliated Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Lund University, advised by A/Prof. Emma Söderberg, Prof. Martin Höst, and Dr. Diederick C. Niehorster. My research lies at the intersection of programming systems (languages and tools), eye tracking, and human-centered machine learning, with influences from design science, HCI, and cognitive neuroscience. Additionaly, I’m interested in multimodal intelligence (for education and health), brain-machine interface, VR/XR, and quantum computing.

I did my Master of Information Technology at The University of Melbourne where I worked as a RA for Prof. Shanton Chang. My master thesis was supervised by Prof. Leon Sterling and A/Prof. Antonette Mendoza. Before that, I was studying at Monash University. I was awarded the International Merit Scholarship by the Falcuty of Information Technology and received my Graduate Certificate in IT there.

news

Mar 03, 2026	I formally passed the MRI course - Functional and Structural Brain Imaging
Feb 25, 2026	My defense (planned on May 13, 2026) is officially approved by the internal committee at LTH
Jan 03, 2025	I started visiting the PEACH lab at ETH Zurich, hosted by A/Prof. April Wang
Sep 05, 2024	I gave a presentation at PPIG/HCC & VL 2024 in Liverpool, UK
Aug 05, 2024	I joined the WASP study trip to the silicon valley, CA, USA

latest posts

Apr 19, 2025	Can we make reading code easier with eye tracking?
Mar 28, 2025	A mix of cooking pics

selected publications

arXiv

GazePrinter: Visualizing Expert Gaze to Guide Novices in a New Codebase

Peng Kuang, Emma Söderberg, April Yi Wang, and 1 more author

In , 2026

DOI Bib HTML PDF

@inproceedings{Kuang2026GazePrinter,
  title = {GazePrinter: Visualizing Expert Gaze to Guide Novices in a New Codebase},
  author = {Kuang, Peng and S{\"o}derberg, Emma and Wang, April Yi and H{\"o}st, Martin},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.19855},
  doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2603.19855},
}

ICSE

Toward Gaze-assisted Developer Tools

Peng Kuang, Emma Söderberg, Diederick C Niehorster, and 1 more author

In 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER), May 2023

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{kuang2023devtools,
  author = {Kuang, Peng and Söderberg, Emma and Niehorster, Diederick C and Höst, Martin},
  booktitle = {2023 IEEE/ACM 45th International Conference on Software Engineering: New Ideas and Emerging Results (ICSE-NIER)},
  month = may,
  title = {{Toward Gaze-assisted Developer Tools}},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.1109/icse-nier58687.2023.00015},
}

Programming

Developers’ Perspective on Today’s and Tomorrow’s Programming Tool Assistance: A Survey

Peng Kuang, Emma Söderberg, and Martin Höst

In Programming ’24: Companion Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming, Apr 2024

DOI Bib

@inproceedings{kuang2024developers,
  author = {Kuang, Peng and Söderberg, Emma and Höst, Martin},
  month = apr,
  booktitle = {Programming '24: Companion Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming},
  title = {{Developers' Perspective on Today's and Tomorrow's Programming Tool Assistance: A Survey}},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {the 10th Edition of the Programming Experience Workshop},
  doi = {10.1145/3660829.3660848},
}

PPIG

Designing A Multi-modal IDE with Developers: An Exploratory Study on Next-generation Programming Tool Assistance

Peng Kuang, Emma Söderberg, and Martin Höst

In 35th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, PPIG 2024, Apr 2024

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@inproceedings{kuang2024designing,
  title = {Designing A Multi-modal IDE with Developers: An Exploratory Study on Next-generation Programming Tool Assistance},
  author = {Kuang, Peng and S{\"o}derberg, Emma and H{\"o}st, Martin},
  booktitle = {35th Annual Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, PPIG 2024},
  pages = {20--36},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {Psychology of Programming Interest Group},
}

EMIP

Applying Machine Learning to Gaze Data in Software Development: a Mapping Study

Peng Kuang, Emma Söderberg, Diederick C Niehorster, and 1 more author

In ETRA ’23: Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, May 2023

DOI Bib HTML

@inproceedings{kuang2023gaze,
  author = {Kuang, Peng and Söderberg, Emma and Niehorster, Diederick C and Höst, Martin},
  month = may,
  title = {{Applying Machine Learning to Gaze Data in Software Development: a Mapping Study}},
  year = {2023},
  booktitle = {ETRA '23: Proceedings of the 2023 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications},
  doi = {10.1145/3588015.3589190},
}