Yang Shi
Modeling student programming code to help next generation computer science education.
Education
Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science, NC State University, present. Advised by Dr. Thomas Price.
M.S. in Computer Science, University of Georgia, 2017.
Best Paper Awards
Awarded Research Grants and Fellowships
Graduate Merit Award, $2,950, NC State University, 2021
AWS Research Credit Award, $ 6,000, Amazon, 2021
News
06/24/2022: I will be presenting my research in the Department of Computer Science in UNC Charlotte on 7/15/22.
06/20/2022: I will attend the Simon Initiative LearnLab Summer School @ Carnegie Mellon University in 7/18/22-7/22/22 in person. See you in Pittsburgh!
05/23/2022: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
04/27/2022: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for JEDM Special Issue on CSEDM.
04/17/2022: One paper: "Code-DKT: A Code-based Knowledge Tracing Model for Programming Tasks" is accepted in Educational Data Mining 2022 as a full paper.
04/10/2022: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (SCI Q1).
03/30/2022: I am selected as one of the 30 members of the Preparing the Professoriate program 2022-2023 cohort hosted by NCSU Grad School. Thanks for your support!
03/14/2022: I will be co-organizing the 6th CSEDM Workshop (CSEDM 2022) during the EDM 2022.
03/07/2022: I will be working as a Research Intern at Microsoft Research, PROSE team on AI for Programming Education from March to August, 2022.
02/28/2022: I am invited to serve as a Reviewer (PC member) for Educational Data Mining 2022.
02/12/2022: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Internet of Things Journal.
02/08/2022: I will serve as a Session Chair for The 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE 2022). See you in Providence, RI!
01/18/2022: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for ACM Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) 2022 Conference.
10/11/2021: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for ACM CHI 2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022).
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!
Motto
Success = Self-discipline + Confidence + Motivation
Contact
Past Emails: yang.atrue@uga.edu