Publications

For the full list, see Google Scholar.

2027

  1. SIGCSE
    From Sourcing to Learning: How Students Engage with Peer-Generated Learning Materials at Scale
    Yuzhe Zhou, Tianyu Shao, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li
    In Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS), 2027
    To appear
  2. SIGCSE
    Real Projects, Real Managers: Cross-Course Learning Between Project Management and Programming Courses
    Tianyu Shao, Yuzhe Zhou, Paul Thomas, and Tianyi Li
    In Proceedings of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS), 2027
    To appear

2026

  1. TOCE
    Tianyi Li, Yuzhe Zhou, and Alejandra J. Magana
    ACM Transactions on Computing Education (TOCE), 2026
  2. AIES
    Jerry H. Martin and Tianyi Li
    In Proceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES), 2026
  3. AIED
    Tianyu Shao, Miguel Feijóo García, Yi Zhang, Hugo Castellanos, Tawfiq Salem, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED), 2026 · Short Paper
  4. IUI
    Yuzhe Zhou, Prithvi Manjunatha, Udayan Pandey, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li
    In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2026
  5. CSCL
    Farm Harvests and Airplane Engines: Contextualizing Database Exercises in Relatable Contexts with a Learnersourcing Workflow
    Yuzhe Zhou, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li
    In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL), ISLS Annual Meeting, 2026
  6. SEFI
    Students’ Experiences of Large Language Models for Learning Systems Analysis and Design: A Phenomenography
    Alejandra J. Magana and Tianyi Li
    In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI), 2026
  7. ICTD
    Jiannan Ding, Abin Mathew, Tanay Maheshwari, Liya Koshy, Jack Gallagher, Nathan Shellhamer, Dan McCoy, Stanley Yung-Ping Chien, Tianyi Li, Chengcheng Tao, and Yaobin Chen
    In International Conference on Transportation and Development 2026, 2026
  8. IUI
    Mohana Sravya Appalaneni and Tianyi Li
    In Companion Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI Companion), 2026 · Poster
  9. IUI
    Yuzhe Zhou, Prithvi Manjunatha, Udayan Pandey, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li
    In Companion Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI Companion), 2026 · Poster
  10. ASC
    Behind the Job: A Multi-Perspective, Scenario-Based Web Application for Employment-Scam Awareness Among Young Adults
    Manasvi Reddy Kothakota, Tianyi Li, Bhagyashree Katare, and Tatiana Ringenberg
    In Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology (ASC), 2026 · Presentation
  11. HealthIUI
    SmartPause: Designing a Reinforcement Learning Model for Reducing Screen Time
    Gustavo Kruger, Nikhil Sachdeva, Yixue Zhao, Tianyi Li, and Michael Sobolev
    In Workshop on Intelligent & Interactive Health User Interfaces (HealthIUI), 2026 · Workshop Paper

2025

  1. TORS
    Shuo Niu, Tianyi Li, and Mohan Chi
    ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems (TORS), 2025
  2. SIGCITE
    Jia Lin Cheoh, Paul Josekutty Thomas, and Tianyi Li
    In Proceedings of the 26th ACM Annual Conference on Cybersecurity & Information Technology Education (SIGCITE), 2025
  3. FIE
    Tianyi Li and Victoria L. Lowell
    In Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2025
  4. FIE
    Yuzhe Zhou, Paul Thomas, and Tianyi Li
    In Proceedings of the IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2025
  5. ITiCSE
    Tianyi Li, Yuzhe Zhou, and Alejandra J. Magana
    In Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), 2025
  6. NLP4DH
    Tianyi Li, Divya Sree Pulipati, and Tatiana Ringenberg
    In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Natural Language Processing for Digital Humanities (NLP4DH), 2025
  7. SIGCSE
    Yuzhe Zhou, Alejandra J. Magana, and Tianyi Li
    In Proceedings of the 56th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS), 2025
  8. JTRP
    Jiannan Ding, Liya Koshy, Tanay Maheshwari, Abin Mathew, Jue Zhou, Stanley Chien, Tianyi Li, Chengcheng Tao, and Yaobin Chen
    2025
  9. CI
    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
    In ACM Collective Intelligence Conference (CI), 2025 · Extended Abstract

2024

  1. TiiS
    Andrew Anderson, Jimena Noa Guevara, Fatima Moussaoui, Tianyi Li, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, and Margaret Burnett
    ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS), 2024
    Best Paper Award
  2. NAFIPS
    Yifei Hu, Tatiana Ringenberg, Tianyi Li, and Julia Rayz
    In Proceedings of the North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society Conference (NAFIPS), 2024
    Honorable Mention for Student Papers
  3. GI
    Maoyuan Sun, Yuanxin Wang, Courtney Bolton, Yue Ma, Tianyi Li, and Jian Zhao
    In Proceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference (GI), 2024
  4. CHI EA
    Md Fazle Elahi, Tianyi Li, and Renran Tian
    In Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA), 2024 · Late-Breaking Work
  5. MOBILESoft
    Yixue Zhao, Tianyi Li, and Michael Sobolev
    In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 11th International Conference on Mobile Software Engineering and Systems (MOBILESoft), 2024 · Short Paper
  6. CHI Workshop
    Tianyi Li and Jin Wei-Kocsis
    In DigiAge Workshop at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024 · Workshop Paper
  7. CHI Workshop
    Tianyi Li, Satya Bonepalli, and Vikram Mohanty
    In Sensemaking Workshop at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024 · Workshop Paper

2023

  1. TOCHI
    Tianyi Li, Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Derek DeBellis, and Saleema Amershi
    ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 2023
  2. Procedia CS
    Towards Human-Centered Pavement Quality Annotation with Crowdsourcing
    Tianyi Li, Tanmay Surve, Eric Thompson, Chengcheng Tao, and Yali Bian
    Procedia Computer Science, 2023
    20th International Conference on Mobile Systems and Pervasive Computing (MobiSPC 2023)
  3. HCOMP
    Tianyi Li, Ping Wang, Tian Shi, Yali Bian, and Andrey Esakia
    In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), 2023
  4. IUI
    Wenlong Zhang, Bhagyashree Ingale, Hamza Shabir, Tianyi Li, Tian Shi, and Ping Wang
    In Companion Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI Companion), 2023 · Demo
  5. CSCW SIG
    Tianyi Li and Francisco Iacobelli
    In Companion Publication of the 2023 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion), 2023 · Special Interest Group
  6. LAK Workshop
    Ping Wang and Tianyi Li
    In Workshop on Partnerships for Co-Creating Educational Content at the International Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference (LAK), 2023 · Workshop Paper

2022

  1. TVCG
    Maoyuan Sun, Akhil Namburi, David Koop, Jian Zhao, Tianyi Li, and Haeyong Chung
    IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG), 2022
  2. VIS
    Maoyuan Sun, Yue Ma, Yuanxin Wang, Tianyi Li, Jian Zhao, Yujun Liu, and Ping-shou Zhong
    In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization and Visual Analytics Conference (VIS), 2022 · Short Paper
    Best Short Paper Honorable Mention
  3. HCOMP WiP
    Tianyi Li, Ping Wang, Tian Shi, and Andrey Esakia
    In AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), Works-in-Progress and Demos, 2022 · Works-in-Progress
  4. HCAI@NeurIPS
    Romila Pradhan and Tianyi Li
    In Human Centered AI Workshop at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (HCAI@NeurIPS), 2022 · Workshop Paper

2021

  1. VIS Workshop
    Yue Ma, Courtney Bolton, Maoyuan Sun, Yuanxin Wang, Jian Zhao, and Tianyi Li
    In Human-Data Interaction Workshop at IEEE VIS 2021, 2021 · Workshop Paper

2020

  1. VIS
    Tianyi Li, Yasmine Belghith, Chris North, and Kurt Luther
    In Proceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (VIS), 2020 · Short Paper
  2. Ph.D. Thesis
    Solving Mysteries with Crowds: Supporting Crowdsourced Sensemaking with a Modularized Pipeline and Context Slices
    Tianyi Li
    Virginia Tech, 2020

2019

  1. CSCW
    Tianyi Li, Chandler J. Manns, Chris North, and Kurt Luther
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 2019
  2. IUI
    Tianyi Li, Gregorio Convertino, Ranjeet Kumar Tayi, and Shima Kazerooni
    In Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), 2019
  3. IUI
    Tianyi Li, Gregorio Convertino, Ranjeet Kumar Tayi, Shima Kazerooni, and Gary Patterson
    In Companion Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI Companion), 2019 · Demo
  4. CSCW DC
    Tianyi Li
    In Companion Publication of the 2019 Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW Companion), Doctoral Consortium, 2019 · Doctoral Consortium

2018

  1. CSCW
    Tianyi Li, Kurt Luther, and Chris North
    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (CSCW), 2018
  2. VIS Workshop
    HyperTuner: Visual Analytics for Hyperparameter Tuning by Professionals
    Tianyi Li, Gregorio Convertino, Wenbo Wang, Haley Most, Tristan Zajonc, and Yi-Hsun Tsai
    In IEEE VIS Workshop on Machine Learning from User Interaction for Visualization and Analytics (MLUI), 2018 · Workshop Paper
  3. CHI Workshop
    Crowdsourcing Intelligence Analysis with Context Slices
    Tianyi Li, Asmita Shah, Kurt Luther, and Chris North
    In CHI Workshop on Sensemaking in a Senseless World, 2018 · Workshop Paper