The big question for my research is: how should we best prepare humans for the AI era? To this end, I design, build, and evaluate LLM applications to foster AI literacy, optimize human–AI task delegation, and support effective human–AI workflows, especially in programming and computing education. I conduct mixed-methods research to investigate how people collaborate and learn with AI systems, and design systems and frameworks to support training and evaluation of effective human–AI teams. I frame my work around the key research questions of what to teach, how to teach, and how to evaluate.
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Publications
* equal contribution † mentoring · See also Google Scholar.
Preprints & In Submission
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In SubmissionManuscript under review, 2026.
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In SubmissionManuscript under review, 2026.
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In SubmissionManuscript under review, 2026. Accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 Workshop on Towards Test-Time Continual Learning Agents.
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In SubmissionManuscript under review, 2026.
Conference & Journal Papers
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NeurIPS '26Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), to appear, 2026. *Equal contribution.
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COLM '26Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), to appear, 2026. *Equal contribution.
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AIED '26International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), 2026.
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ACL Demo '26Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): System Demonstrations, 2026. *Equal contribution.
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CHI '26ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2026.
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ACL Findings '26Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings), 2026.
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TOCHI '25ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2025. Presented at CHI '26.
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ACL Findings '25Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL Findings), 2025. *Co-first authors.
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AIED '24🏆 Best Paper🏆 Best Interactive EventInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), 2024. Invited presentations at IJCAI '25 and CSCL '25.
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AIED '24🏆 Best Paper NomineeInternational Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), 2024.
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BJET '24British Journal of Educational Technology (BJET), 2024.
Workshops, Posters & Doctoral Consortia
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CHI '26 DCCHI EA '26: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Doctoral Consortium), 2026.
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AIED '26 DCArtificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) Doctoral Consortium, 2026.
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AIED '26 WorkshopArtificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) Workshops, 2026.
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CHI EA '25CHI EA '25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. *Equal contribution.
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SIGCSE '24ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS), 2024.
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NeurIPS '23 WorkshopWorkshop on Generative AI for Education (GAIED) @ NeurIPS, 2023. *Equal contribution.
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AIED '23 WorkshopWorkshop on Empowering Education with LLMs @ AIED, 2023. Presented at ICER '23.
Invited Talks
- Aug 2026The Impact of Expertise on AI-Assisted Work
Microsoft - Spring 2026What to Teach and How to Teach Programming in the AI Era
Penn, Cornell, Columbia, UMich, UChicago, UCI, UCSD, UC Berkeley, Stanford, UIUC, HKUST (Guangzhou), UW - Dec 2025Training Future-Proof Developers
HKU, HKUST, ECNU - Dec 2025AI × Future of Work Series: Workforce Preparation on AI Literacy (Keynote)
Plug and Play Tech Center - Oct 2025Training Requirement-Driven LLM Use for Prompt Programming
Mila HCAI Seminar - Fall 2025Training the Use of LLMs on Programmatic Data Science for Non-Experts
Bloomberg, University of Pittsburgh - Aug 2025Sister Conferences Best Paper Presentation
IJCAI 2025, Montreal - Jun 2025IAALDE-Network Best Paper Presentation
CSCL/ISLS 2025, Helsinki - Fall 2024Training for the Future: Preparing Students for Human–LLM Partnerships
UMich, CMU, Pitt - Aug 2024Scaling Student Support: Online Question-Answering with LLM Tutors
Google DeepMind