Yang Shi
Ph.D. Student, North Carolina State University
Education:
PhD student in CS, North Carolina State University, 2019 - present.
Advisor: Dr. Thomas W. Price.
PhD student in CS, University of Georgia, 2017 - 2019.
MS in CS, University of Georgia, 2015 - 2017.
Advisor: Dr. WenZhan Song
Committee: Dr. Hamid Arabnia, Dr. Tianming Liu.
BEng in Automation, Central South University, 2011 - 2015.
Research Interests:
Computer Science Education
Educational Data Mining
Unstructured Data Analysis
Recent News
09/27/2021: One paper: "Identifying Common Errors in Open-ended Machine Learning Projects" is accepted in The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE 2022).
08/10/2021: I will be serving as a Co-Instructor for the Data Mining course for AI Academy at NCSU.
07/08/2021: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Education.
07/02/2021: One paper: "Just a Few Expert Constraints Can Help: Humanizing Data-Driven Subgoal Detection for Novice Programming" has won the Best Full Paper Award (#1/100 Full papers) in the 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2021). Thank you!
05/10/2021: I was awarded a Summer Graduate Merit Award by College of Engineering, NC State. Thank you!
04/15/2021: I will give a presentation about our LAK paper in Department of Computer Science, NC State.
04/09/2021: Three papers about student bug detection, performance prediction, and progress detection are accepted as full (2) / short (1) papers in the 14th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2021).
02/25/2021: I will be serving as a Summer Instructor for Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.
02/12/2021: I will be co-organizing the 5th CSEDM Workshop during the EDM 2021.
01/14/2021: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
01/13/2021: One paper: "Toward Semi-Automatic Misconception Discovery Using Code Embeddings" is accepted in The 11th International Conference on Learning Analytics & Knowledge (LAK 21).
11/10/2020: 4th CSEDM Workshop Proceedings now published available at CEUR-WS.
11/04/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.
10/03/2020: One paper: "TEST_POSITIVE at W-NUT 2020 Shared Task-3: Joint Event Multi-task Learning for Slot Filling in Noisy Text" is accepted in The 6th Workshop on Noisy User-generated Text at EMNLP 2020.
08/21/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society.
08/10/2020: I served as a Reviewer for IEEE Sensors 2020 conference.
07/10/2020: I served as a co-organizer of 4th CSEDM Workshop. Thanks for joining us!
07/06/2020: One paper: "Comparing Feature Engineering Approaches to Predict Complex Programming Behaviors" is accepted in 4th CSEDM Workshop.
04/20/2020: I will be co-organizing the 4th CSEDM Workshop during the EDM 2020.
04/01/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Network Magazine.
02/23/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. (IEEE TSIPN)
02/06/2020: I will be serving as a Summer Instructor for Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.
01/31/2020: I was awarded $6,000 Research Credits from Amazon Web Services for the proposal of CS Educational Data Representation Research. Thank you Amazon!
Awards
Best Full Paper Award, EDM 2021, Jul 2021
AWS Credits for Research, Amazon Inc., $6,000, Jan 2020 - Jan 2021
Graduate School Traveling Award, University of Georgia, $600, Jul 2018
Motto
Success = Self-discipline + Confidence + Motivation
Contact
Past Emails: yang.atrue@uga.edu