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Stephen MacNeil

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

68

Venues

10

Active years

2015–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

68 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026ACEEnabling Postgraduate Projects in Computing Education through Synthetic Research Data Generation.Paul Denny, Kaitlin Riegel, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Stephen MacNeil
2026ACEExploring Student Behaviors and Motivations when using AI Teaching Assistants with Optional Guardrails.Amanpreet Kapoor, Paul Denny, Leo Porter, Stephen MacNeil, Marc Diaz
2026ACEUnraveling Ambiguities: Analyzing Student Approaches to Solving Probeable Problems.Viraj Kumar, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, James Prather, Stephen MacNeil
2026ACEOne Line at a Time: Scaffolding Reflective Code Evaluation through Structured AI Assistance.Victor Qiu, Liam Parker, Kaitlin Riegel, Nasser Giacaman, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather
2026ICERUnderstanding Student Perceptions, Mistakes, and Debugging Approaches when Solving Natural Language Programming Tasks.Victor-Alexandru Padurean, Kaitlin Riegel, Gweneth Barbre, Musa Blake, Paul Denny, Alkis Gotovos, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Adish Singla
2026ICERScaffolding Autocomplete: Improving Guidance for Learners using Generative Code Suggestions.James Prather, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Lauren Margulieux, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, John Homer, Rahad Arman Nabid, Rachel Louise Rossetti
2026ITiCSETo Tab or Not to Tab: Measuring Critical Engagement in AI Code Completion Tools Using Behavioral Signals and Attention Checks.Jessica Hutchison, Ian Tyler Applebaum, Kenneth Angelikas, Kush Rakesh Patel, Phuoc Nguyen, Antonio Lazaro, Nicholas Rucinski, Rahad Arman Nabid, Stephen MacNeil
2026ITiCSE'I can't read your mind': A Study of Neurodivergent Computing Students' Experiences with Collaborative Active Learning.Cynthia Zastudil, Srishty Muthusekaran, Rayhona Nasimova, Stephen MacNeil
2026SIGCSENavigating Computing Careers: TikTok's Potential Role as an Informal Resource.Emily Martinez, Yashi Patel, Adyan Chowdhury, Noel Chacko, Francisco Castro, Stephen MacNeil
2026SIGCSEAssessing the Role of Diversity in LLM Explanations for Enhancing Student Understanding.Kush Patel, Seth Bernstein, Rayhana Nasimova, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil
2025ACESeeing the Forest and the Trees: Solving Visual Graph and Tree Based Data Structure Problems using Large Multimodal Models.Sebastian Gutierrez, Irene Hou, Jihye Lee, Kenneth Angelikas, Owen Man, Sophia Mettille, James Prather, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil
2025ACELLM-itation is the Sincerest Form of Data: Generating Synthetic Buggy Code Submissions for Computing Education.Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Olli Kiljunen, Stephen MacNeil, Sami Sarsa, Arto Hellas
2025ACEBreaking the Programming Language Barrier: Multilingual Prompting to Empower Non-Native English Learners.James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Joo Orvalho, Amin Alipour, Ali Alfageeh, Thezyrie Amarouche, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Musa Blake, Gweneth Barbre
2025ASSETSHelping or Homogenizing? GenAI as a Design Partner to Pre-Service SLPs for Just-in-Time Programming of AAC.Cynthia Zastudil, Christine Holyfield, Christine Kapp, Kate Hamilton, Kriti Baru, Liam Newsam, June A. Smith, Stephen MacNeil
2025ITiCSEProbing the Unknown: Exploring Student Interactions with Probeable Problems at Scale in Introductory Programming.Paul Denny, Viraj Kumar, Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Juho Leinonen
2025ITiCSE'All Roads Lead to ChatGPT': How Generative AI is Eroding Social Interactions and Student Learning Communities.Irene Hou, Owen Man, Kate Hamilton, Srishty Muthusekaran, Jeffin Johnykutty, Leili Zadeh, Stephen MacNeil
2025ITiCSEThe Role of Generative AI in Software Student CollaborAItion.Natalie Kiesler, Jacqueline Smith, Juho Leinonen, Armando Fox, Stephen MacNeil, Petri Ihantola
2025ITiCSEFostering Responsible AI Use Through Negative Expertise: A Contextualized Autocompletion Quiz.Stephen MacNeil, James Prather, Rahad Arman Nabid, Sebastian Gutierrez, Silas Carvalho, Saimon Shrestha, Paul Denny, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Rachel Louise Rossetti
2025ITiCSENavigating the Ethical and Societal Impacts of Generative AI in Higher Computing Education.Janice Mak, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Tony Clear, Alison Clear, Ibrahim Albluwi, Oana Andrei, Lorenzo Angeli, Stephen MacNeil, Solomon Sunday Oyelere, Matthew Hale Rattigan, Judy Sheard, Tingting Zhu
2025ITiCSEA Plan for an ACM Task Force Working Group into the Ethical and Societal Impacts of Generative AI in Higher Computing Education.Janice Mak, Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende, Alison Clear, Tony Clear, Ismaila Temitayo Sanusi, Judy Sheard, Lorenzo Angeli, Matthew Hale Rattigan, Oana Andrei, Samuel Mann, Solomon Sunday Oyelere, Stephen MacNeil, Tingting Zhu
2025ITiCSENeurodiversity in Computing Education Research: A Systematic Literature Review.Cynthia Zastudil, David H. Smith, Yusef Tohamy, Rayhona Nasimova, Gavin Montross, Stephen MacNeil
2025IUIEvaluating the Impact of AI-Generated Visual Explanations on Decision-Making for Image Matching.Albatool Wazzan, Marcus Wright, Stephen MacNeil, Richard Souvenir
2025SIGCSELightweight Social Computing Tools for Undergraduate Research Community Building.Noel Chacko, Hannah Vy Nguyen, Sophie Chen, Stephen MacNeil
2025SIGCSEThe Evolving Usage of GenAI by Computing Students.Irene Hou, Hannah Vy Nguyen, Owen Man, Stephen MacNeil
2025SIGCSEExploring Student Reactions to LLM-Generated Feedback on Explain in Plain English Problems.Chris Kerslake, Paul Denny, David H. Smith, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Brett A. Becker
2025SIGCSEHacking Student Leadership: Peer Mentorship and Leadership Skill Development Among Hackathon Organizers.Kush Patel, Andrew Tran, Christine Kapp, Daniel Bicalho, Yatri Patel, Chiku Okechukwu, Egi Rama, Stephen MacNeil
2024ACEMore Robots are Coming: Large Multimodal Models (ChatGPT) can Solve Visually Diverse Images of Parsons Problems.Irene Hou, Owen Man, Sophia Mettille, Sebastian Gutierrez, Kenneth Angelikas, Stephen MacNeil
2024ACEThe Effects of Generative AI on Computing Students' Help-Seeking Preferences.Irene Hou, Sophia Mettille, Owen Man, Zhuo Li, Cynthia Zastudil, Stephen MacNeil
2024ACEDecoding Logic Errors: A Comparative Study on Bug Detection by Students and Large Language Models.Stephen MacNeil, Paul Denny, Andrew Tran, Juho Leinonen, Seth Bernstein, Arto Hellas, Sami Sarsa, Joanne Kim
2024ASSETSExploring the use of Generative AI to Support Automated Just-in-Time Programming for Visual Scene Displays.Cynthia Zastudil, Christine Holyfield, Christine Kapp, Xandria Crosland, Elizabeth R. Lorah, Tara Zimmerman, Stephen MacNeil
2024ASSETSPredictive Anchoring: A Novel Interaction to Support Contextualized Suggestions for Grid Displays.Cynthia Zastudil, Christine Holyfield, June A. Smith, Hannah Vy Nguyen, Stephen MacNeil
2024CHIIRComparing Traditional and LLM-based Search for Image Geolocation.Albatool Wazzan, Stephen MacNeil, Richard Souvenir
2024FIEWIP: Identifying Tutorial Affordances for Interdisciplinary Learning Environments.Hannah Kim, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Stephen MacNeil
2024ICERThe Widening Gap: The Benefits and Harms of Generative AI for Novice Programmers.James Prather, Brent N. Reeves, Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Arisoa S. Randrianasolo, Brett A. Becker, Bailey Kimmel, Jared Wright, Ben Briggs
2024ITiCSEDesirable Characteristics for AI Teaching Assistants in Programming Education.Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Jaromr Savelka, Leo Porter, Andrew Luxton-Reilly
2024ITiCSE"Like a Nesting Doll": Analyzing Recursion Analogies Generated by CS Students Using Large Language Models.Seth Bernstein, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Lauren Kan, Arto Hellas, Matt Littlefield, Sami Sarsa, Stephen MacNeil
2024ITiCSEAnalyzing Students' Preferences for LLM-Generated Analogies.Seth Bernstein, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Matt Littlefield, Arto Hellas, Stephen MacNeil
2024ITiCSEHow Instructors Incorporate Generative AI into Teaching Computing.James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Natalie Kiesler, Jamie Gorson Benario, Sam Lau, Stephen MacNeil, Narges Norouzi, Simone Opel, Virginia Pettit, Leo Porter, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromr Savelka, David H. Smith IV, Sven Strickroth, Daniel Zingaro
2024ITiCSEBeyond the Hype: A Comprehensive Review of Current Trends in Generative AI Research, Teaching Practices, and Tools.James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Natalie Kiesler, Jamie Gorson Benario, Sam Lau, Stephen MacNeil, Narges Norouzi, Simone Opel, Vee Pettit, Leo Porter, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromr Savelka, David H. Smith, Sven Strickroth, Daniel Zingaro
2024SIGCSEUsing Large Language Models for Teaching Computing.Juho Leinonen, Stephen MacNeil, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas
2024SIGCSEIntegrating Natural Language Prompting Tasks in Introductory Programming Courses.Chris Kerslake, Paul Denny, David H. Smith, James Prather, Juho Leinonen, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil
2024SIGCSEDiscussing the Changing Landscape of Generative AI in Computing Education.Stephen MacNeil, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Natalie Kiesler, Arto Hellas, James Prather, Brett A. Becker, Michel Wermelinger, Karen Reid
2024SIGCSESynthetic Students: A Comparative Study of Bug Distribution Between Large Language Models and Computing Students.Stephen MacNeil, Magdalena Rogalska, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Arto Hellas, Xandria Crosland
2023FIEGenerating Multiple Choice Questions for Computing Courses Using Large Language Models.Andrew Tran, Kenneth Angelikas, Egi Rama, Chiku Okechukwu, David H. Smith IV, Stephen MacNeil
2023FIEGenerative AI in Computing Education: Perspectives of Students and Instructors.Cynthia Zastudil, Magdalena Rogalska, Christine Kapp, Jennifer Vaughn, Stephen MacNeil
2023ICERUsing Large Language Models to Automatically Identify Programming Concepts in Code Snippets.Andrew Tran, Linxuan Li, Egi Rama, Kenneth Angelikas, Stephen MacNeil
2023ITiCSEComparing Code Explanations Created by Students and Large Language Models.Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Stephen MacNeil, Sami Sarsa, Seth Bernstein, Joanne Kim, Andrew Tran, Arto Hellas
2023ITiCSEThe Robots Are Here: Navigating the Generative AI Revolution in Computing Education.James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Brett A. Becker, Ibrahim Albluwi, Michelle Craig, Hieke Keuning, Natalie Kiesler, Tobias Kohn, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Petersen, Raymond Pettit, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromr Savelka
2023ITiCSETransformed by Transformers: Navigating the AI Coding Revolution for Computing Education: An ITiCSE Working Group Conducted by Humans.James Prather, Paul Denny, Juho Leinonen, Brett A. Becker, Ibrahim Albluwi, Michael E. Caspersen, Michelle Craig, Hieke Keuning, Natalie Kiesler, Tobias Kohn, Andrew Luxton-Reilly, Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Petersen, Raymond Pettit, Brent N. Reeves, Jaromr Savelka
2023SIGCSEThe Implications of Large Language Models for CS Teachers and Students.Stephen MacNeil, Joanne Kim, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Seth Bernstein, Brett A. Becker, Michel Wermelinger, Arto Hellas, Andrew Tran, Sami Sarsa, James Prather, Viraj Kumar
2023SIGCSEAutomatically Generating CS Learning Materials with Large Language Models.Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Tran, Juho Leinonen, Paul Denny, Joanne Kim, Arto Hellas, Seth Bernstein, Sami Sarsa
2023SIGCSEExperiences from Using Code Explanations Generated by Large Language Models in a Web Software Development E-Book.Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Tran, Arto Hellas, Joanne Kim, Sami Sarsa, Paul Denny, Seth Bernstein, Juho Leinonen
2023UISTMemory Sandbox: Transparent and Interactive Memory Management for Conversational Agents.Ziheng Huang, Sebastian Gutierrez, Hemanth Kamana, Stephen MacNeil
2022ICERGenerating Diverse Code Explanations using the GPT-3 Large Language Model.Stephen MacNeil, Andrew Tran, Dan Mogil, Seth Bernstein, Erin Ross, Ziheng Huang
2022ICERA Context-Aware Browser Extension for Just-in-Time Learning of Data Literacy Skills.Stephen MacNeil, Joshua Withka, Aaron Wile, Parth Patel, Emily Jao, Margaret Hanley
2022UISTExpert Goggles: Detecting and Annotating Visualizations using a Machine Learning Classifier.Stephen MacNeil, Parth Patel, Benjamin E. Smolin
2021CHICoNotate: Suggesting Queries Based on Notes Promotes Knowledge Discovery.Srishti Palani, Zijian Ding, Austin Nguyen, Andrew Chuang, Stephen MacNeil, Steven P. Dow
2021CHIIRThe "Active Search" Hypothesis: How Search Strategies Relate to Creative Learning.Srishti Palani, Zijian Ding, Stephen MacNeil, Steven P. Dow
2021UISTProbMap: Automatically constructing design galleries through feature extraction and semantic clustering.Stephen MacNeil, Zijian Ding, Kexin Quan, Ziheng Huang, Kenneth Chen, Steven P. Dow
2019FIESemi-automated Analysis of Reflections as a Continuous Course.Nasrin Dehbozorgi, Stephen MacNeil
2018FIEA Comparison of Lecture-based and Active Learning Design Patterns in CS Education.Nasrin Dehbozorgi, Stephen MacNeil, Mary Lou Maher, Mohsen Dorodchi
2018FIEDesign and Implementation of an Activity-Based Introductory Computer Science Course (CS1) with Periodic Reflections Validated by Learning Analytics.Mohsen Dorodchi, Aileen Benedict, Devansh Desai, Mohammad Javad Mahzoon, Stephen MacNeil, Nasrin Dehbozorgi
2018FIEEvolving a Data Structures Class Toward Inclusive Success.Celine Latulipe, Stephen MacNeil, Brian Thompson
2017FIEUsing spectrums and dependency graphs to model progressions from introductory to capstone courses.Stephen MacNeil, Mohsen Dorodchi, Nasrin Dehbozorgi
2017ICERTools to Support Data-driven Reflective Learning.Stephen MacNeil
2016SIGCSELeveraging Context to Create Opportunistic Co-Located Learning Environments (Abstract Only).Stephen MacNeil, Celine Latulipe
2016SIGCSEExploring Lightweight Teams in a Distributed Learning Environment.Stephen MacNeil, Celine Latulipe, Bruce Long, Aman Yadav
2015ICERLearning in Distributed Low-Stakes Teams.Stephen MacNeil, Celine Latulipe, Aman Yadav