| 2026 | SIGCSE | From Confidence to Doubt: A Multi-year Analysis of Students' Problem-Solving Attitudes in a CS2 Course. | Zhikai Gao, Matthew Zahn, Collin Lynch, Sarah Heckman |
| 2025 | EDM | Privacy-Preserving Distributed Link Predictions Among Peers in Online Classrooms Using Federated Learning. | Anurata Prabha Hridi, Muntasir Hoq, Zhikai Gao, Collin Lynch, Rajeev Sahay, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Bita Akram |
| 2025 | EDM | 2nd Workshop on Educational Data Mining in Writing and Literacy Instruction. | Collin Lynch, Paul Deane, Piotr Mitros, Zhikai Gao, Damilola Babalola |
| 2025 | SIGCSE | Comparing Students' and Teachers' Assessments of Office Hours. | Zhikai Gao, Saminur Islam, Caleb Scott, Collin Lynch, Sarah Heckman |
| 2025 | SIGCSE | EclipseMonitor: A Real-Time Student Programming Environment Data Collection Tool. | Saminur Islam, Zhikai Gao, John Bacher, Gabriel Silva de Oliveira, Varad Patwardhan, Sarah Heckman, Collin Lynch |
| 2024 | EDM | Building Predictive Models for CS Students Help-Seeking Behaviors with Coding Log Data. | Zhikai Gao, Collin Lynch |
| 2024 | EDM | Who Should I Help Next? Simulation of Office Hours Queue Scheduling Strategy in a CS2 Course. | Zhikai Gao, Gabriel Silva de Oliveira, Damilola Babalola, Collin F. Lynch, Sarah Heckman |
| 2024 | EDM | Educational Data Mining in Writing and Literacy Instruction. | Collin Lynch, Paul Deane, Piotr Mitros, Zhikai Gao, Damilola Babalola |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Using Survival Analysis to Model Students' Patience in Online Office Hour Queues. | Zhikai Gao, Adam M. Gaweda, Collin F. Lynch, Sarah Heckman, Damilola Babalola, Gabriel Silva de Oliveira |
| 2024 | SIGCSE | Exploring Novice Programmers' Testing Behavior: A First Step to Define Coding Struggle. | Gabriel Silva de Oliveira, Zhikai Gao, Sarah Heckman, Collin F. Lynch |
| 2022 | EDM | Admitting you have a problem is the first step: Modeling when and why students seek help in programming assignments. | Zhikai Gao, Bradley Erickson, Yiqiao Xu, Collin F. Lynch, Sarah Heckman, Tiffany Barnes |
| 2022 | SIGCSE | Who Uses Office Hours?: A Comparison of In-Person and Virtual Office Hours Utilization. | Zhikai Gao, Sarah Heckman, Collin F. Lynch |
| 2021 | CSCWD | Ant Colony Optimization for UAV-based Intelligent Pesticide Irrigation System. | Zhikai Gao, Jie Zhu, Haiping Huang, Yifan Yang, Xudong Tan |
| 2021 | EDM | Automatically classifying student help requests: a multi-year analysis. | Zhikai Gao, Collin F. Lynch, Sarah Heckman, Tiffany Barnes |