Arnavi Chheda-Kothary

PhD student @ University of Washington CSE | Previously @ Ai2, MSFT, Columbia, UW

[Ai2 @allen_ai]

We've released a Chrome extension for Asta—a faster way to go from finding a paper to asking questions about it while you read. 🧵

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Congratulations to the Super Bowl champion @Seahawks! This defense was special. MVP Kenneth Walker was dominant. And Sam Darnold gave us one of the best comeback stories in a long time. Enjoy the celebration.

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

@liujc1998 @HannaHajishirzi @YejinChoinka @uwnlp Congrats @liujc1998!! 👏🏽🎉

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

It’s been incredible for me to return to Ai2 as a student researcher on this project with @turingmusician @lucyluwang and @josephcc, getting to combine my background in accessibility and engineering to bring this prototype to life! Please feel free to reach out with feedback.

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

Ever want to ask questions about a paper, including its figures & tables? 📊📈 Want smoother interactions w/papers on desktop & mobile?
Try Paper+Figure QA, a new tool from @allen_ai that answers with the original figures, tables, and excerpts from papers: https://t.co/hoKCgPVBOI

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

Paper+Figure QA is early and still evolving, so expect some rough edges. We’d love your feedback as we improve it! Paper+Figure QA is only available for open access papers, so there may be some papers we do not currently support. In those cases, please try a different paper.

[Jonathan Bragg @turingmusician]

Agent benchmarks don't measure true *AI* advances

We built one that's hard & trustworthy
👉AstaBench tests agents w/ *standardized tools* on 2400+ scientific research problems
👉SOTA results across 22 agent *classes*
👉AgentBaselines agents suite

🆕https://t.co/BFjdGCAp1w

🧵👇

[Venkatesh Potluri @venkypotluri]

@umsi we developed accessibility guidelines to evaluate AI coding tools like @Replit , @julesagent and @code . Blind or visually impaired developers, #A11Y experts and accademics, please participate in our study to ensure programming remains accessible!

https://t.co/tIwyj1eMtz

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

@JesseDodge @Meta @allen_ai Congrats Jesse! Very exciting 😁🎉

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

Thank you to my collaborators, and a huge huge thank you to @BrianHCI who has stuck with me and with this work through several rejection cycles. This work happened as a part of my Master’s thesis working at the CEAL lab, and I’m grateful that we saw it over the finish line! (6/6)

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

While other mediums like mobile devices have spatial affordances built in, desktops continue to feel linear and homogenous when parsing content with screen readers. (3/6)

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

Read more about our work here — https://t.co/hI2M5MTKwP. For those at CHI, I’ll be presenting on Wednesday during the Spatial Interactions session! Please come find me then or anytime this week to chat further about all things screen readers, accessibility, and AI! (5/6)

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

In this work, we built and deployed a browser extension to enable spatial input and spatial output based screen reader interactions for increased layout understanding of web pages on desktops. (2/6)

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

Kicking off my very first CHI today! Great to be at #CHI2025 in beautiful Yokohama, where I’ll be presenting work on incorporating spatial interactions into desktop screen readers titled: "It Brought Me Joy": Opportunities for Spatial Browsing in Desktop Screen Readers. (1/6)

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

It was such a great experience to have been a part of bringing this to the Ai2 Playground! Congrats to the whole team 🎉

[Ai2 @allen_ai]

For years it’s been an open question — how much is a language model learning and synthesizing information, and how much is it just memorizing and reciting?

Introducing OLMoTrace, a new feature in the Ai2 Playground that begins to shed some light. 🔦

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

@liujc1998 Amazing work @liujc1998!! 🎉🎉

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

A huge thanks to all my collaborators, and special shoutout to my wonderful advisors @wobbrockjo and @jonfroehlich.

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

Excited to be at #IUI25 in Cagliari, Italy this week to present our paper “ArtInsight: Enabling AI-Powered Artwork Engagement for Mixed Visual-Ability Families”. You can find the full paper here: https://t.co/u7HrBuQcel

[Arnavi Chheda-Kothary @arnavic]

In this work, we present a Human-AI system designed to facilitate deeper engagement and conversations between blind or low vision (BLV) family members and their sighted children around child-created visual artwork.