Conference & Journal Publications
Qianou Ma, Weirui Peng, Chenyang Yang, Hua Shen, Kenneth Koedinger, and Tongshuang Wu. What Should We Engineer in Prompts? Training Humans in Requirement-Driven LLM Use. In Transactions on Computer‑Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2025. Media coverage: SCS News.
Qianou Ma*, Dora Zhao*, Xinran Zhao, Chenglei Si, Chenyang Yang, Ryan Louie, Ehud Reiter, Diyi Yang\(^\dagger\), and Tongshuang Wu\(^\dagger\). SPHERE: An Evaluation Card for Human-AI Systems. In ACL Findings, 2025. *Co-first authors. \(^\dagger\)Co-last authors.
Qianou Ma, Hua Shen, Kenneth Koedinger, and Tongshuang Wu. How to Teach Programming in the AI Era? Using LLMs as a Teachable Agent for Debugging. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Springer, 2024. 🏆 Best Paper. Media coverage: The Link.
Atharva Naik, Jessica Ruhan Yin, Anusha Kamath, Qianou Ma, Sherry Tongshuang Wu, Charles Murray, Christopher Bogart, Majd Sakr, and Carolyn P. Rose. Generating Situated Reflection Triggers About Alternative Solution Paths: A Case Study in Generative AI for Computer‑ Supported Collaborative Learning. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education. Springer, 2024. 🏆 Best Paper Nominee.
Workshop & Poster Publications
Qianou Ma*, Yann Hicke*, Anmol Agarwal*, and Paul Denny. AI‑TA: Towards an Intelligent Question‑Answer Teaching Assistant using Open‑ Source LLMs. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Generative AI for Education (GAIED) ‑ co‑located with 37th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2023), 2023. *Equal contribution.
Qianou Ma, Tongshuang Wu, and Kenneth Koedinger. Is AI the better programming partner? Human‑Human Pair Programming vs. Human‑Al pAIr Programming. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Empowering Education with LLMs ‑ the Next‑Gen Interface and Content Gen‑ eration 2023 co‑located with 24th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED 2023), pages 64–77, 2023.
Qianou Ma, Anika Jain*, Jini Kim*, Megan Chai*, and Geoff Kauffman. ImaginAItion: Promoting Generative AI Literacy Through Game‑Based Learning. In CHI EA’25: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025. *Equal contribution.
Aysa Xuemo Fan, Rully Agus Hendrawan, Yang Shi, and Qianou Ma. Enhancing Code Tracing Question Generation with Refined Prompts in Large Language Models. SIGCSE TS 2024 (55th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education), 2024.