Benjamin Steenhoek

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I am a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Code | AI, based in Des Moines, Iowa.

I work on GitHub Copilot's code edit suggestion models and agents.

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2026

2025

2024

TRACED: Execution-aware Pre-training for Source Code

ICSE '24Yangruibo Ding, Benjamin Steenhoek, Kexin Pei, Gail Kaiser, Wei Le, Baishakhi Ray

We introduce TRACED, an execution-aware pre-training strategy for source code wherein we pre-train code language models with a combination of source code, executable inputs, and corresponding execution traces.

2023