News
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August 2026:
Steve Oney just launched a new Coursera specialization: Practical JavaScript: From Scratch to React
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July 2026:
Dr. Maryam Arab will join SUNY Albany as a Visiting Assistant Professor in September. Congratulations, Professor Arab!
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July 2026:
Ashley’s paper on visualizing student-AI interaction in code was accepted to UIST 2026!
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Ashley Zhang
- Yan-Ru Jhou
- Yinuo Yang
- Shamita Rao
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Maryam Arab
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Yan Chen
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Editrail: Understanding AI Usage by Visualizing Student-AI In...
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April 2026:
Several group members will be in Barcelona for CHI 2026! Ashley will present her paper on navigating coding histories at scale and Xiangyu will present his poster on simulating cursor trajectories for GUI evaluation.
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October 2025:
The group will present three papers at VL/HCC 2025 in Raleigh, on learning programming strategies in context, visualizing conversations in multi-agent systems, and monitoring programming exercises in real time!
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October 2025:
Steve Oney is the general chair for UIST 2026, which will be in Detroit!
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October 2025:
Steve Oney started as president of the VL/HCC steering committee!
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September 2025:
Jiacheng will be presenting her paper on cross-tab web automation at UIST 2025 in Busan!
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April 2025:
Several group members will be in Yokohama for CHI 2025, with workshop papers on student-AI interaction in programming education and on using AI in web automation systems. Say “hi” if you’re there!
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October 2024:
Excited to welcome Dr. Maryam Arab as a new Postdoctoral Researcher!
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June 2024:
Ashley will be presenting her paper on representing code at scale at Learning @ Scale in Atlanta!
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June 2024:
Congratulations to Dr. Lei Zhang on his wonderful Ph.D. defense!
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April 2024:
Several group members (and alumni) will be in Hawaii for CHI 2024. Say “hi” if you’re there!
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April 2024:
Lei Zhang will join NJIT Informatics as an Assistant Professor after a one-term postdoc at Princeton. Congratulations, Lei!
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January 2024:
Dr. Rebecca Krosnick (2023 Ph.D. graduate) joined Postman as a software engineer! Congratulations, Dr. Krosnick!
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November 2023:
Congratulations to Dr. Rebecca Krosnick on her awesome Ph.D. defense!
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November 2023:
Mauli Pandey (2023 alum) joined Google as a UX Researcher. Congratulations, Dr. Pandey!
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November 2023:
April Wang (2023 alum) joined ETH Zürich as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science. Congratulations, Professor Wang!
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October 2023:
Ashley Zhang presented at VL/HCC 2023 in Washington, D.C.!
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September 2023:
Steve Oney was elected to the VL/HCC steering committee
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September 2023:
We welcomed Jiacheng Zhang, a new UMSI Ph.D. student, to the spot group!
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September 2023:
Congratulations to Dr. Mauli Pandey and Dr. April Wang on their exceptional Ph.D. defenses!
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April 2023:
April, Ashley, Lei, Mauli, and Rebecca will be in Hamburg for CHI 2023. Say “hi” if you’re there!
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April Wang
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Ashley Zhang
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Lei Zhang
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Rebecca Krosnick
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Mauli Pandey
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Colaroid: A Literate Programming Approach for Authoring Explo...
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VizProg: Identifying Misunderstandings by Visualizing Student...
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VRGit: A Version Control System for Collaborative Content Cre...
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How Pairing by Code Similarity Influences Discussions in Peer...
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Promises and Pitfalls of Using LLMs for Scraping Web UIs
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January 2023:
Yan Chen (2020 alum) joined Virginia Tech CS as an Assistant Professor. Congratulations, Professor Chen!
