Nachiket Kotalwar

nachiketdk [at] cmu [dot] edu
nachiketkotalwar [at] outlook [dot] com

Hello! I am a first-year PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, advised by Dr. Carolyn Rose. I work at the intersection of NLP and AI for Code to improve human-AI collaboration, with applications in software development, education, and beyond.

Previously, I worked as a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), advised by Dr. Adish Singla, where I focused on improving how language models generate feedback for code.

Nachiket Kotalwar
Selected Publications
Humanizing Automated Programming Feedback: Fine-Tuning Generative Models with Student-Written Feedback
VA Pădurean, T Phung, N Kotalwar, M Liut, J Leinonen, P Denny, A Singla
Educational Data Mining (EDM), 2025
Hints-In-Browser: Benchmarking Language Models for Programming Feedback Generation
N Kotalwar, A Gotovos, A Singla
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets & Benchmarks Track, 2024