News
| Oct 2026 | Published in AIES 2026: Tracking AI Advisory Drift Before It Reaches the Farms: Measuring Contextual Reliability in LLM-Generated Advice Across the Agricultural Landscape (Jerry H. Martin and Tianyi Li). |
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| Oct 2026 | Began serving as guest editor, with Kurt Luther and Kenneth Huang, of the ACM TiiS special issue on HCOMP 2026. |
| Oct 2026 | Accepted to SIGCSE TS 2027: From Sourcing to Learning: How Students Engage with Peer-Generated Learning Materials at Scale (Yuzhe Zhou, Tianyu Shao, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li) Real Projects, Real Managers: Cross-Course Learning Between Project Management and Programming Courses (Tianyu Shao, Yuzhe Zhou, Paul Thomas, and Tianyi Li) |
| Sep 2026 | Spoke on the After MTurk panel at HCOMP 2026 about Mechanical Turk’s legacy and the future of online crowd work. |
| Sep 2026 | Attending HCOMP 2026 in Alexandria, VA, as Program Co-Chair with Chien-Ju Ho. This was the first ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment, co-located with ACM Collective Intelligence, and all 22 full papers are open access in the ACM Digital Library. |
| Aug 2026 | Welcomed new Ph.D. students Meng-Yu Wun, Mingyang Wu, and Markeya Gu, and M.S. student Tzu-En Feng. |
| Aug 2026 | Accepted to ACM TOCE: Engaging Students in Co-creating Contextualized Learning Materials in Computing Education (Tianyi Li, Yuzhe Zhou, and Alejandra J. Magana). |
| Aug 2026 | Hugo Armando Castellanos Morales completed a Ph.D., co-advised with Alejandra J. Magana. Congratulations, Dr. Castellanos! |
| Jun 2026 | Accepted to SEFI 2026: Students’ Experiences of Large Language Models for Learning Systems Analysis and Design: A Phenomenography (Alejandra J. Magana and Tianyi Li). |
| Jun 2026 | Accepted to CSCL 2026: Farm Harvests and Airplane Engines: Contextualizing Database Exercises in Relatable Contexts with a Learnersourcing Workflow (Yuzhe Zhou, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li). |
| Jun 2026 | Accepted to AIED 2026: Tracing Prompt-Level Interaction Trajectories to Understand Student Learning with LLMs in Programming Education (Tianyu Shao, Miguel Feijóo García, Yi Zhang, Hugo Castellanos, Tawfiq Salem, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li). |
| May 2026 | Mohana Sravya Appalaneni completed the M.S. degree. Congratulations! |
| Mar 2026 | Attending IUI 2026 to present our three papers. |
| Jan 2026 | Accepted to IUI 2026: ExPeerience: Towards AI-Assisted Learnersourcing to Bridge Conceptual Understanding and Problem Solving in Database Programming Education (Yuzhe Zhou, Prithvi Manjunatha, Udayan Pandey, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li) ExPeerience: Support Student-AI Co-Creation in a Learnersourcing Workflow (Yuzhe Zhou, Prithvi Manjunatha, Udayan Pandey, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li) Enhancing Vignette-Based Research Through AI-Generated Storyboards (Mohana Sravya Appalaneni and Tianyi Li) |
| Nov 2025 | Attending IEEE FIE 2025 in Nashville, TN, to present our two papers. |
| Aug 2025 | Accepted to IEEE FIE 2025: A Two-Quarter Initiative in Co-Designed Programming Courses for High School Students (Tianyi Li and Victoria L. Lowell) Examining Perception Differences in Context Familiarity Between Students and Instructors in Computing Education: A Case Study on Introductory Database Concepts (Yuzhe Zhou, Paul Thomas, and Tianyi Li) |
| Jul 2025 | Our department merged with Computer Graphics Technology to form Purdue’s School of Applied and Creative Computing. |
| Jun 2025 | Accepted to ACM Collective Intelligence 2025: User-Centered Design with AI in the Loop: A Case Study of Rapid User Interface Prototyping with “Vibe Coding” (Tianyi Li, Tanay Maheshwari, and Alex Voelker). |
| Jun 2025 | Attending ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 to co-chair Crowd Camp. |
| May 2025 | Divya Sree Pulipati completed the M.S. degree. Congratulations! |
| May 2025 | Received the Outstanding Faculty in Discovery award from the Department of Computer and Information Technology. |
| Mar 2025 | Accepted to ITiCSE 2025: Towards Learnersourcing Relatable and Contextualized Learning Materials: An Exploratory Study in a Database Programming Class (Tianyi Li, Yuzhe Zhou, and Alejandra J. Magana). |
| Feb 2025 | Attending SIGCSE TS 2025 in Pittsburgh, PA, to present our paper. |
| Oct 2024 | Accepted to SIGCSE TS 2025: Facilitating Students’ Learning Transfer in a Database Programming Class (Yuzhe Zhou, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li). |
| Oct 2024 | Attending HCOMP 2024 to co-chair Crowd Camp. |
| May 2024 | Yuzhe Zhou completed the M.S. degree and continued into our Ph.D. program. |
| May 2024 | Received a Seed for Success Acorn Award from Purdue Research. |
| Jan 2024 | Joined the ACM CHI program committee as an Associate Chair. |
| Nov 2023 | Attending HCOMP 2023 in Delft, the Netherlands, to present our paper. |
| Nov 2023 | Attending the CIRCLS ‘23 convening on AI and emerging technologies for learning communities to present a poster on learnersourcing inclusive learning content. |
| Oct 2023 | Attending CSCW 2023 in Minneapolis, MN, to co-organize our special interest group on Purposeful AI. |
| Aug 2023 | Accepted to HCOMP 2023: Task as Context: A Sensemaking Perspective on Annotating Inter-Dependent Event Attributes with Non-Experts (Tianyi Li, Ping Wang, Tian Shi, Yali Bian, and Andrey Esakia). |
| Jun 2023 | Accepted to CSCW 2023: Purposeful AI (Tianyi Li and Francisco Iacobelli). |
| May 2023 | Accepted to MobiSPC 2023: Towards Human-Centered Pavement Quality Annotation with Crowdsourcing (Tianyi Li, Tanmay Surve, Eric Thompson, Chengcheng Tao, and Yali Bian). |
| May 2023 | Published in ACM TOCHI: Assessing Human-AI Interaction Early through Factorial Surveys: A Study on the Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction (Tianyi Li, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Derek DeBellis, and Saleema Amershi). The work informed Microsoft Research’s HAX Toolkit. |
| Mar 2023 | Attending LAK 2023 virtually to present our workshop paper. |
| Feb 2023 | Accepted to the Workshop on Partnerships for Co-Creating Educational Content at LAK 2023: Content Moderation and Personalization of Learning Materials with Learnersourcing (Ping Wang and Tianyi Li). |
| Feb 2023 | Accepted to IUI 2023: Event Detection Explorer: An Interactive Tool for Event Detection Exploration (Wenlong Zhang, Bhagyashree Ingale, Hamza Shabir, Tianyi Li, Tian Shi, and Ping Wang). |
| Aug 2021 | Joined Purdue University as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology. |