Relating Reading, Visualization, and Coding for New Programmers: A Neuroimaging Study. - Madeline Endres; Zachary Karas; Xiaosu Hu; Ioulia Kovelman; Westley Weimer (ICSE, 2021)

Connecting the dots: rethinking the relationship between code and prose writing with functional connectivity. - Zachary Karas; Andrew Jahn; Westley Weimer; Yu Huang 015 (ESEC/SIGSOFT FSE, 2021)

Relating Reading, Visualization, and Coding forNew Programmers: A Neuroimaging Study. - Madeline Endres; Zachary Karas; Xiaosu Hu; Ioulia Kovelman; Westley Weimer (CoRR, 2021)

How Do We Read Formal Claims? Eye-Tracking and the Cognition of Proofs about Algorithms. - Hammad Ahmad; Zachary Karas; Kimberly Diaz; Amir Kamil; Jean-Baptiste Jeannin; Westley Weimer (ICSE, 2023)

Modeling Programmer Attention as Scanpath Prediction. - Aakash Bansal; Chia-Yi Su; Zachary Karas; Yifan Zhang; Yu Huang 015; Toby Jia-Jun Li; Collin McMillan (ASE, 2023)

Function Call Graph Context Encoding for Neural Source Code Summarization. - Aakash Bansal; Zachary Eberhart; Zachary Karas; Yu Huang 015; Collin McMillan (IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2023)

Do Machines and Humans Focus on Similar Code? Exploring Explainability of Large Language Models in Code Summarization. - Jiliang Li; Yifan Zhang; Zachary Karas; Collin McMillan; Kevin Leach; Yu Huang 015 (ICPC, 2024)

EyeTrans: Merging Human and Machine Attention for Neural Code Summarization. - Yifan Zhang; Jiliang Li; Zachary Karas; Aakash Bansal; Toby Jia-Jun Li; Collin McMillan; Kevin Leach; Yu Huang 015 (Proc. ACM Softw. Eng., 2024)

A Tale of Two Comprehensions? Analyzing Student Programmer Attention during Code Summarization. - Zachary Karas; Aakash Bansal; Yifan Zhang; Toby Jia-Jun Li; Collin McMillan; Yu Huang 015 (ACM Trans. Softw. Eng. Methodol., 2024)

Studying Programmers Without Programming: Investigating Expertise Using Resting State fMRI. - Zachary Karas; Benjamin Gold; Violet Zhou; Noah Reardon; Thad Polk; Catie Chang; Yu Huang (ICSE, 2025)

Enhancing Code LLM Training with Programmer Attention. - Yifan Zhang; Chen Huang 006; Zachary Karas; Dung Thuy Nguyen; Kevin Leach; Yu Huang 015 (SIGSOFT FSE Companion, 2025)

Programmer Visual Attention During Context-Aware Code Summarization. - Robert Wallace; Aakash Bansal; Zachary Karas; Ningzhi Tang; Yu Huang 015; Toby Jia-Jun Li; Collin McMillan (IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2025)