Yang Shi

[Talk] 11/06/2023: I will join a discussion panel hosted by Neil Heffernan about the topic of educational large language models (LLMs) in a class at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Thanks for the invitation, Neil!

[New Reviewer Venue] 11/06/2023: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for ACM Transactions on Computing Education.

[New Reviewer Venue] 10/29/2023: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for LAK 2024 Decision Making and Optimization in Education (DMO-EDU) Workshop.

[New Reviewer Venue] 10/09/2023: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for AAAI 2024 AI for Education (AI4ED) Workshop.

[Talk] 10/03/2023: I will give a guest lecture at the Utah State University (remote presentation) on 11/17/2023. 

[Pub] 10/02/2023: One paper: "Detecting ChatGPT-Generated Code Submissions in a CS1 Course Using Machine Learning Models" is accepted in The 55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE 2024).

[New Reviewer Venue] 09/17/2023: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for NeurIPS 2023 Generative AI for Education (GAIED) Workshop.

[New Reviewer Venue] 09/11/2023: I was invited to serve as a Program Committee member for SDM 2024.

[Talk] 07/25/2023: I will present my research at the EngageAI Institute Summit on 8/8/23-8/10/23 in person. See you in San Francisco!

[Talk/Service] 07/17/2023: I will serve as a mentor and give a hands-on lecture on code analysis in computing education at the Simon Initiative LearnLab Summer School at Carnegie Mellon University on 7/24/23-7/28/23 in person. See you in Pittsburgh!

[Pub] 06/13/2023: One paper: "Detecting ChatGPT-Generated Code in a CS1 Course" is accepted in Empowering Education with LLMs - the Next-Gen Interface and Content Generation Workshop at AIED 2023.

[Pub] 05/30/2023: One paper: "Investigating the Impact of On-Demand Code Examples on Novices' Open-Ended Programming Experience" is accepted in ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER) 2023.

[Talk] 05/02/2023: I will present my research at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (remote presentation) on 5/19/2023. 

[Talk] 04/24/2023: I will present my research at the University of Pittsburgh (remote presentation) on 5/3/2023. 

[New Reviewer Venue] 04/14/2023: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) 2023. 

[First Author Pub] 04/10/2023: One paper: "KC-Finder: Automated Knowledge Component Discovery for Programming Problems" is accepted in Educational Data Mining (EDM) 2023 as a Full Paper.

[Talk] 04/03/2023: I will present my research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (remote presentation) on 4/3/2023. 

[Pub] 03/26/2023: One paper: "Investigating the Impact of Emotions on the Quality of Novice Programmers’ Code" is accepted in NeuroIS Retreat 2023.

[New Reviewer Venue] 02/14/2023: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for Journal of Educational Data Mining (JEDM).

[New Reviewer Venue] 01/23/2023: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED).

[Talk] 12/26/2022: Our Code-DKT paper has been accepted for oral presentation at the AAAI 2023 AI4EDU workshop.

[Award] 12/22/2022: I was awarded Mentored Teaching Fellowship ($1,000) from the College of Engineering, NC State University to gain more experience in graduate-level teaching. Thanks for the support from CoE and my teaching mentor, Dr. Price!

[Award/First Author Pub] 12/14/2022: One paper: "Trustworthy Code-Informed Learning Analytics for CS Education" is accepted in LAK 2023 Doctoral Consortium Track. I am also awarded financial support ($1,920 total funding) to attend the conference and present my work.

[Award] 11/21/2022: Excited to announce that I was awarded Goodnight Doctoral Fellowship ($40,000 total funding/stipend yearly) from NC State University to extend my research in enhancing STEM education. Thanks for the support from the Goodnight Foundation, Dr. Price, my advisors, and all collaborators!

[Pub] 11/14/2022: One poster paper: "Developing Comic-based Learning Toolkits for Teaching Computing to Elementary School Learners" is accepted in SIGCSE 2023.

[Teaching] 11/04/2022: I will be co-teaching the graduate-level data mining course (CSC522) in Spring 2023 for the Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.

[Service] 11/01/2022: I will be co-organizing the 7th CSEDM Workshop (CSEDM 2023) co-located with LAK 2023 at Arlington, TX. See you in person next March!

[Talk] 06/24/2022: I will be presenting my research in the Department of Computer Science in UNC Charlotte on 7/15/22. 

[New Reviewer Venue] 04/27/2022: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for JEDM Special Issue on CSEDM.

[First Author Pub] 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.

[New Reviewer Venue] 04/10/2022: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning (SCI Q1).

[Award] 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!

[Service] 03/14/2022: I will be co-organizing the 6th CSEDM Workshop (CSEDM 2022) during the EDM 2022.

[Work Update] 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.

[Service] 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!

[New Reviewer Venue] 01/18/2022: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for ACM Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE) 2022 Conference.

[New Reviewer Venue] 10/11/2021: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for ACM CHI 2022 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2022).

[Pub] 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).

[Teaching] 08/10/2021: I will be serving as a Co-Instructor for the Data Mining course for AI Academy at NCSU.

[New Reviewer Venue] 07/08/2021: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Education.

[Award] 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!

[Award] 05/10/2021: I was awarded a Summer Graduate Merit Award by College of Engineering, NC State. Thank you!

[Talk] 04/15/2021: I will give a presentation about our LAK paper in Department of Computer Science, NC State.

[First Author Pub] 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).

[Teaching] 02/25/2021: I will be serving as a Summer Instructor for Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.

[Service] 02/12/2021: I will be co-organizing the 5th CSEDM Workshop during the EDM 2021.

[New Reviewer Venue] 01/14/2021: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

[First Author Pub] 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).

[New Reviewer Venue] 11/04/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

[Pub] 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.

[New Reviewer Venue] 08/21/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society.

[New Reviewer Venue] 08/10/2020: I served as a Reviewer for IEEE Sensors 2020 conference.

[Service] 07/10/2020: I served as a co-organizer of 4th CSEDM Workshop. Thanks for joining us!

[Pub] 07/06/2020: One paper: "Comparing Feature Engineering Approaches to Predict Complex Programming Behaviors" is accepted in 4th CSEDM Workshop.

[Service] 04/20/2020: I will be co-organizing the 4th CSEDM Workshop during the EDM 2020.

[New Reviewer Venue] 04/01/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Network Magazine. 

[New Reviewer Venue] 02/23/2020: I was invited to serve as a Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks. (IEEE TSIPN)

[Teaching] 02/06/2020: I will be serving as a Summer Instructor for Department of Computer Science, North Carolina State University.

[Award] 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!