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Chris Piech

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

44

Venues

7

Active years

2012–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

44 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026SIGCSEPersonalized Exam Prep (PEP): Scaling No-Stakes, No-LLM Dialogue-Based Assessments in a Large CS Course.Kelly Cochran, Chris Piech
2026SIGCSEAligning Small Language Models for Programming Feedback: Towards Scalable Coding Support in a Massive Global Course.Charles Koutcheme, Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech
2026SIGCSERooms of Their Own: Structured Small-Group Learning in a Realtime Browser-Based IDE.Jacob Roberts-Baca, Joshua Delgadillo, Chris Piech
2025AIEDAI Web Agents Can Effectively Guide Lesson Design and Predict Student Outcomes.Sierra Wang, John C. Mitchell, Chris Piech
2025EDMImproving Generative AI Student Feedback: Direct Preference Optimization with Teachers in the Loop.Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech, Sanmi Koyejo
2025LAKSoft Grades: A Calibrated and Accurate Method for Course-Grade Estimation that Expresses Uncertainty.Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech
2025SIGCSEFostering and Understanding Diverse Interpersonal Connections in a Massive Online CS1 Course.Miranda Li, Ali Malik, Chris Piech
2025SIGCSEInfinite Story.Chris Piech, Mehran Sahami, Yasmine Alonso, Katie Liu, Javokhir Arifov, Anjali Sreenivas, Dan Webber, Tina Zheng, Ngoc Nguyen, Iddah Mlauzi, Juliette Woodrow
2024EDMGrading and Clustering Student Programs That Produce Probabilistic Output.Yunsung Kim, Jadon Geathers, Chris Piech
2024ITiCSETeachNow: Enabling Teachers to Provide Spontaneous, Realtime 1: 1 Help in Massive Online Courses.Ali Malik, Juliette Woodrow, Chao Wang, Chris Piech
2024SIGCSEPyodideU: Unlocking Python Entirely in a Browser for CS1.Thomas Jefferson, Chris Gregg, Chris Piech
2024SIGCSEA Fast and Accurate Machine Learning Autograder for the Breakout Assignment.Evan Zheran Liu, David Yuan, Ahmed Ahmed, Elyse Cornwall, Juliette Woodrow, Kaylee Burns, Allen Nie, Emma Brunskill, Chris Piech, Chelsea Finn
2024SIGCSELearners Teaching Novices: An Uplifting Alternative Assessment.Ali Malik, Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech
2024SIGCSEMath IDE: A Platform for Creating with Math.Sierra Wang, John C. Mitchell, Nick Haber, Chris Piech
2024SIGCSEA Large Scale RCT on Effective Error Messages in CS1.Sierra Wang, John C. Mitchell, Chris Piech
2024SIGCSEAI Teaches the Art of Elegant Coding: Timely, Fair, and Helpful Style Feedback in a Global Course.Juliette Woodrow, Ali Malik, Chris Piech
2023AIEDTowards the Future of AI-Augmented Human Tutoring in Math Learning.Vincent Aleven, Richard G. Baraniuk, Emma Brunskill, Scott A. Crossley, Dora Demszky, Stephen Fancsali, Shivang Gupta, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Chris Piech, Steven Ritter, Danielle R. Thomas, Simon Woodhead, Wanli Xing
2023EDMVariational Temporal IRT: Fast, Accurate, and Explainable Inference of Dynamic Learner Proficiency.Yunsung Kim, Sreechan Sankaranarayanan, Chris Piech, Candace Thille
2023LAKThe Student Zipf Theory: Inferring Latent Structures in Open-Ended Student Work To Help Educators.Yunsung Kim, Chris Piech
2023SIGCSEDetecting the Reasons for Program Decomposition in CS1 and Evaluating Their Impact.Charis Charitsis, Chris Piech, John C. Mitchell
2022EDMThe AI Teacher Test: Measuring the Pedagogical Ability of Blender and GPT-3 in Educational Dialogues.Anas Tack, Chris Piech
2022SIGCSEFeedback on Program Development Process for CS1 Students.Charis Charitsis, Chris Piech, John C. Mitchell
2021AAAIUsing Radio Archives for Low-Resource Speech Recognition: Towards an Intelligent Virtual Assistant for Illiterate Users.Moussa Doumbouya, Lisa Einstein, Chris Piech
2021EDMSimGrade: Using Code Similarity Measures for More Accurate Human Grading.Sonja Johnson-Yu, Nicholas Bowman, Mehran Sahami, Chris Piech
2021EDMGenerative Grading: Near Human-level Accuracy for Automated Feedback on Richly Structured Problems.Ali Malik, Mike Wu, Vrinda Vasavada, Jinpeng Song, Madison Coots, John Mitchell, Noah D. Goodman, Chris Piech
2021SIGCSEPearProgram: A More Fruitful Approach to Pair Programming.Maxwell Bigman, Ethan Roy, Jorge Garcia, Miroslav Suzara, Kaili Wang, Chris Piech
2020AAAIThe Stanford Acuity Test: A Precise Vision Test Using Bayesian Techniques and a Discovery in Human Visual Response.Chris Piech, Ali Malik, Laura M. Scott, Robert T. Chang, Charles Lin
2020EDMMeasuring Ability-to-Learn Using Parametric Learning Gain Functions.Chris Piech, Engin Bumbacher, Richard Lee Davis
2020EDMVariational Item Response Theory: Fast, Accurate, and Expressive.Mike Wu, Richard Lee Davis, Benjamin W. Domingue, Chris Piech, Noah D. Goodman
2019AAAIZero Shot Learning for Code Education: Rubric Sampling with Deep Learning Inference.Mike Wu, Milan Moss, Noah D. Goodman, Chris Piech
2019EDMGrades are not Normal: Improving Exam Score Models Using the Logit-Normal Distribution.Noah Arthurs, Ben Stenhaug, Sergey Karayev, Chris Piech
2019EDMUsing Latent Variable Models to Observe Academic Pathways.Nate Gruver, Ali Malik, Brahm Capoor, Chris Piech, Mitchell L. Stevens, Andreas Paepcke
2019SIGCSEPensieve: Feedback on Coding Process for Novices.Lisa Yan, Annie Hu, Chris Piech
2019SIGCSEThe PyramidSnapshot Challenge: Understanding Student Process from Visual Output of Programs.Lisa Yan, Nick McKeown, Chris Piech
2018SIGCSEBlueBook: A Computerized Replacement for Paper Tests in Computer Science.Chris Piech, Chris Gregg
2018SIGCSETMOSS: Using Intermediate Assignment Work to Understand Excessive Collaboration in Large Classes.Lisa Yan, Nick McKeown, Mehran Sahami, Chris Piech
2017EDMLearning to Represent Student Knowledge on Programming Exercises Using Deep Learning.Lisa Wang, Angela Sy, Larry Liu, Chris Piech
2017SIGCSESharing and Using Programming Log Data (Abstract Only).Thomas W. Price, Neil C. C. Brown, Chris Piech, Kelly Rivers
2016SIGCSEAs CS Enrollments Grow, Are We Attracting Weaker Students?Mehran Sahami, Chris Piech
2015ICMLLearning Program Embeddings to Propagate Feedback on Student Code.Chris Piech, Jonathan Huang, Andy Nguyen, Mike Phulsuksombati, Mehran Sahami, Leonidas J. Guibas
2013AIEDSyntactic and Functional Variability of a Million Code Submissions in a Machine Learning MOOC.Jonathan Huang, Chris Piech, Andy Nguyen, Leonidas J. Guibas
2013EDMTuned Models of Peer Assessment in MOOCs.Chris Piech, Jonathan Huang, Zhenghao Chen, Chuong B. Do, Andrew Y. Ng, Daphne Koller
2013LAKDeconstructing disengagement: analyzing learner subpopulations in massive open online courses.Ren F. Kizilcec, Chris Piech, Emily Schneider
2012SIGCSEModeling how students learn to program.Chris Piech, Mehran Sahami, Daphne Koller, Steve Cooper, Paulo Blikstein