Chris Piech

102 papers A* 9A 11B 23Journal 36Unranked 22
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 — conf
Aligning Small Language Models for Programming Feedback: Towards Scalable Coding Support in a Massive Global Course.
SIGCSE (1)
Charles Koutcheme, Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech
2026 J jnl
EducaSim: Interactive Simulacra for CS1 Instructional Practice.
CoRR
Cameron Mohne, Nicholas Vo, Dora Demszky, Chris Piech
2026 — conf
Personalized Exam Prep (PEP): Scaling No-Stakes, No-LLM Dialogue-Based Assessments in a Large CS Course.
SIGCSE (1)
Kelly Cochran, Chris Piech
2026 J jnl
Protecting and Promoting Human Agency in Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
CoRR
Olga Viberg, Mutlu Cukurova, René F. Kizilcec, Simon Buckingham Shum, Dorottya Demszky, Dragan Gasevic, Thorben Jansen, Ioana Jivet, Jelena Jovanovic, Jennifer Meyer, Kou Murayama, Zachary A. Pardos, Chris Piech, Nikol Rummel, Naomi E. Winstone
2026 — conf
Rooms of Their Own: Structured Small-Group Learning in a Realtime Browser-Based IDE.
SIGCSE (1)
Jacob Roberts-Baca, Joshua Delgadillo, Chris Piech
2026 J jnl
The Future of Feedback: How Can AI Help Transform Feedback to Be More Engaging, Effective, and Scalable?
CoRR
Jennifer Meyer, Olaf Köller, Thorben Jansen, Johanna Fleckenstein, Michael W. Asher, Sarah Bichler, Laura Brandl, Jasmin Breitwieser, Kai S. Cortina, Mutlu Cukurova, Martin Daumiller, Hannah Deininger, Frank Fischer, Dragan Gasevic, Jeanine Grutter, Anna Hilz, Ioana Jivet, Jelena Jovanovic, René F. Kizilcec, Livia Kuklick, Marlit Annalena Lindner, Anastasiya Lipnevich, Ute Mertens, Detmar Meurers, Kou Murayama, Tanya Nazaretsky, Knut Neumann, Ernesto Panadero, Maciej Pankiewicz, Zachary A. Pardos, Chris Piech, Hannah Pünjer, Nikol Rummel, Marlene Steinbach, Olga Viberg, Naomi E. Winstone
2025 — conf
AI Web Agents Can Effectively Guide Lesson Design and Predict Student Outcomes.
AIED (2)
Sierra Wang, John C. Mitchell, Chris Piech
2025 — conf
Fostering and Understanding Diverse Interpersonal Connections in a Massive Online CS1 Course.
SIGCSE (1)
Miranda Li, Ali Malik, Chris Piech
2025 B conf
Improving Generative AI Student Feedback: Direct Preference Optimization with Teachers in the Loop.
EDM
Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech, Sanmi Koyejo
2025 — conf
Infinite Story.
SIGCSE (2)
Chris Piech, Mehran Sahami, Yasmine Alonso, Katie Liu, Javokhir Arifov, Anjali Sreenivas, Dan Webber, Tina Zheng, Ngoc Nguyen, Iddah Mlauzi, Juliette Woodrow
2025 J jnl
Principled Design of Interpretable Automated Scoring for Large-Scale Educational Assessments.
CoRR
Yunsung Kim, Mike Hardy, Joseph Tey, Candace Thille, Chris Piech
2025 A conf
Soft Grades: A Calibrated and Accurate Method for Course-Grade Estimation that Expresses Uncertainty.
LAK
Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech
2024 — conf
A Fast and Accurate Machine Learning Autograder for the Breakout Assignment.
SIGCSE (1)
Evan Zheran Liu, David Yuan, Ahmed Ahmed, Elyse Cornwall, Juliette Woodrow, Kaylee Burns, Allen Nie, Emma Brunskill, Chris Piech, Chelsea Finn
2024 — conf
A Large Scale RCT on Effective Error Messages in CS1.
SIGCSE (1)
Sierra Wang, John C. Mitchell, Chris Piech
2024 — conf
AI Teaches the Art of Elegant Coding: Timely, Fair, and Helpful Style Feedback in a Global Course.
SIGCSE (1)
Juliette Woodrow, Ali Malik, Chris Piech
2024 J jnl
AI Teaches the Art of Elegant Coding: Timely, Fair, and Helpful Style Feedback in a Global Course.
CoRR
Juliette Woodrow, Ali Malik, Chris Piech
2024 J jnl
From Tarzan to Tolkien: Controlling the Language Proficiency Level of LLMs for Content Generation.
CoRR
Ali Malik, Stephen Mayhew, Chris Piech, Klinton Bicknell
2024 B conf
Grading and Clustering Student Programs That Produce Probabilistic Output.
EDM
Yunsung Kim, Jadon Geathers, Chris Piech
2024 B conf
Handwritten Code Recognition for Pen-and-Paper CS Education.
L@S
Md Sazzad Islam, Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya, Christopher D. Manning, Chris Piech
2024 J jnl
Handwritten Code Recognition for Pen-and-Paper CS Education.
CoRR
Md Sazzad Islam, Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya, Christopher D. Manning, Chris Piech
2024 — conf
Learners Teaching Novices: An Uplifting Alternative Assessment.
SIGCSE (1)
Ali Malik, Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech
2024 J jnl
Learners Teaching Novices: An Uplifting Alternative Assessment.
CoRR
Ali Malik, Juliette Woodrow, Chris Piech
2024 — conf
Math IDE: A Platform for Creating with Math.
SIGCSE (2)
Sierra Wang, John C. Mitchell, Nick Haber, Chris Piech
2024 — conf
PyodideU: Unlocking Python Entirely in a Browser for CS1.
SIGCSE (1)
Thomas Jefferson, Chris Gregg, Chris Piech
2024 J jnl
SimGrade: Using Code Similarity Measures for More Accurate Human Grading.
CoRR
Sonja Johnson-Yu, Nicholas Bowman, Mehran Sahami, Chris Piech
2024 — conf
TeachNow: Enabling Teachers to Provide Spontaneous, Realtime 1: 1 Help in Massive Online Courses.
ITiCSE (1)
Ali Malik, Juliette Woodrow, Chao Wang, Chris Piech
2024 J jnl
TeachNow: Enabling Teachers to Provide Spontaneous, Realtime 1: 1 Help in Massive Online Courses.
CoRR
Ali Malik, Juliette Woodrow, Chao Wang, Chris Piech
2024 J jnl
The GPT Surprise: Offering Large Language Model Chat in a Massive Coding Class Reduced Engagement but Increased Adopters Exam Performances.
CoRR
Allen Nie, Yash Chandak, Miroslav Suzara, Ali Malik, Juliette Woodrow, Matt Peng, Mehran Sahami, Emma Brunskill, Chris Piech
2023 J jnl
BanditPAM++: Faster k-medoids Clustering.
CoRR
Mo Tiwari, Ryan Kang, Donghyun Lee, Sebastian Thrun, Chris Piech, Ilan Shomorony, Martin Jinye Zhang
2023 J jnl
Bayesian Decision Trees via Tractable Priors and Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars.
CoRR
Colin Sullivan, Mo Tiwari, Sebastian Thrun, Chris Piech
2023 — conf
Detecting the Reasons for Program Decomposition in CS1 and Evaluating Their Impact.
SIGCSE (1)
Charis Charitsis, Chris Piech, John C. Mitchell
2023 B conf
GPTeach: Interactive TA Training with GPT-based Students.
L@S
Julia M. Markel, Steven G. Opferman, James A. Landay, Chris Piech
2023 B conf
High-Resolution Course Feedback: Timely Feedback Mechanism for Instructors.
L@S
Yunsung Kim, Chris Piech
2023 J jnl
Machine Translation for Nko: Tools, Corpora and Baseline Results.
CoRR
Moussa Koulako Bala Doumbouya, Baba Mamadi Diané, Solo Farabado Cissé, Djibrila Diané, Abdoulaye Sow, Séré Moussa Doumbouya, Daouda Bangoura, Fodé Moriba Bayo, Ibrahima Sory 2. Condé, Kalo Mory Diané, Chris Piech, Christopher D. Manning
2023 — conf
Machine Translation for Nko: Tools, Corpora, and Baseline Results.
WMT
Moussa Doumbouya, Baba Mamadi Diané, Solo Farabado Cissé, Djibrila Diané, Abdoulaye Sow, Séré Moussa Doumbouya, Daouda Bangoura, Fodé Moriba Bayo, Ibrahima Sory 2. Condé, Kalo Mory Diané, Chris Piech, Christopher D. Manning
2023 A* conf
MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks.
NeurIPS
Allen Nie, Yuhui Zhang, Atharva Amdekar, Chris Piech, Tatsunori B. Hashimoto, Tobias Gerstenberg
2023 J jnl
MoCa: Measuring Human-Language Model Alignment on Causal and Moral Judgment Tasks.
CoRR
Allen Nie, Yuhui Zhang, Atharva Amdekar, Chris Piech, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Tobias Gerstenberg
2023 — conf
The BEA 2023 Shared Task on Generating AI Teacher Responses in Educational Dialogues.
BEA@ACL
Anaïs Tack, Ekaterina Kochmar, Zheng Yuan, Serge Bibauw, Chris Piech
2023 J jnl
The BEA 2023 Shared Task on Generating AI Teacher Responses in Educational Dialogues.
CoRR
Anaïs Tack, Ekaterina Kochmar, Zheng Yuan, Serge Bibauw, Chris Piech
2023 A conf
The Student Zipf Theory: Inferring Latent Structures in Open-Ended Student Work To Help Educators.
LAK
Yunsung Kim, Chris Piech
2023 — conf
Towards the Future of AI-Augmented Human Tutoring in Math Learning.
AIED (Posters/Late Breaking Results/...)
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
2023 B conf
Variational Temporal IRT: Fast, Accurate, and Explainable Inference of Dynamic Learner Proficiency.
EDM
Yunsung Kim, Sreechan Sankaranarayanan, Chris Piech, Candace Thille
2023 J jnl
Variational Temporal IRT: Fast, Accurate, and Explainable Inference of Dynamic Learner Proficiency.
CoRR
Yunsung Kim, Sreechan Sankaranarayanan, Chris Piech, Candace Thille
2022 J jnl
Faster Maximum Inner Product Search in High Dimensions.
CoRR
Mo Tiwari, Ryan Kang, Je-Yong Lee, Luke Lee, Chris Piech, Sebastian Thrun, Ilan Shomorony, Martin Jinye Zhang
2022 — conf
Feedback on Program Development Process for CS1 Students.
SIGCSE (2)
Charis Charitsis, Chris Piech, John C. Mitchell
2022 B conf
Function Names: Quantifying the Relationship Between Identifiers and Their Functionality to Improve Them.
L@S
Charis Charitsis, Chris Piech, John C. Mitchell
2022 A* conf
Giving Feedback on Interactive Student Programs with Meta-Exploration.
NeurIPS
Evan Zheran Liu, Moritz Stephan, Allen Nie, Chris Piech, Emma Brunskill, Chelsea Finn
2022 J jnl
Giving Feedback on Interactive Student Programs with Meta-Exploration.
CoRR
Evan Zheran Liu, Moritz Stephan, Allen Nie, Chris Piech, Emma Brunskill, Chelsea Finn
2022 A* conf
MABSplit: Faster Forest Training Using Multi-Armed Bandits.
NeurIPS
Mo Tiwari, Ryan Kang, Jaeyong Lee, Chris Piech, Ilan Shomorony, Sebastian Thrun, Martin J. Zhang
2022 J jnl
MABSplit: Faster Forest Training Using Multi-Armed Bandits.
CoRR
Mo Tiwari, Ryan Kang, Je-Yong Lee, Sebastian Thrun, Chris Piech, Ilan Shomorony, Martin Jinye Zhang
2022 B conf
The AI Teacher Test: Measuring the Pedagogical Ability of Blender and GPT-3 in Educational Dialogues.
EDM
Anaïs Tack, Chris Piech
2022 J jnl
The AI Teacher Test: Measuring the Pedagogical Ability of Blender and GPT-3 in Educational Dialogues.
CoRR
Anaïs Tack, Chris Piech
2022 B conf
Using NLP to Quantify Program Decomposition in CS1.
L@S
Charis Charitsis, Chris Piech, John C. Mitchell
2021 B conf
Assessing Function Names and Quantifying the Relationship Between Identifiers and Their Functionality to Improve Them.
L@S
Charis Charitsis, Chris Piech, John C. Mitchell
2021 B conf
Generative Grading: Near Human-level Accuracy for Automated Feedback on Richly Structured Problems.
EDM
Ali Malik, Mike Wu, Vrinda Vasavada, Jinpeng Song, Madison Coots, John Mitchell, Noah D. Goodman, Chris Piech
2021 J jnl
Modeling Item Response Theory with Stochastic Variational Inference.
CoRR
Mike Wu, Richard Lee Davis, Benjamin W. Domingue, Chris Piech, Noah D. Goodman
2021 A conf
PearProgram: A More Fruitful Approach to Pair Programming.
SIGCSE
Maxwell Bigman, Ethan Roy, Jorge Garcia, Miroslav Suzara, Kaili Wang, Chris Piech
2021 A* conf
Play to Grade: Testing Coding Games as Classifying Markov Decision Process.
NeurIPS
Allen Nie, Emma Brunskill, Chris Piech
2021 J jnl
Play to Grade: Testing Coding Games as Classifying Markov Decision Process.
CoRR
Allen Nie, Emma Brunskill, Chris Piech
2021 J jnl
ProtoTransformer: A Meta-Learning Approach to Providing Student Feedback.
CoRR
Mike Wu, Noah D. Goodman, Chris Piech, Chelsea Finn
2021 B conf
SimGrade: Using Code Similarity Measures for More Accurate Human Grading.
EDM
Sonja Johnson-Yu, Nicholas Bowman, Mehran Sahami, Chris Piech
2021 — conf
Simplifying Automated Assessment in CS1.
ICETM
Charis Charitsis, Chris Piech, John C. Mitchell
2021 A* conf
Using Radio Archives for Low-Resource Speech Recognition: Towards an Intelligent Virtual Assistant for Illiterate Users.
AAAI
Moussa Doumbouya, Lisa Einstein, Chris Piech
2021 J jnl
Using Radio Archives for Low-Resource Speech Recognition: Towards an Intelligent Virtual Assistant for Illiterate Users.
CoRR
Moussa Doumbouya, Lisa Einstein, Chris Piech
2020 J jnl
Bandit-PAM: Almost Linear Time k-Medoids Clustering via Multi-Armed Bandits.
CoRR
Mo Tiwari, Martin Jinye Zhang, James Mayclin, Sebastian Thrun, Chris Piech, Ilan Shomorony
2020 A* conf
BanditPAM: Almost Linear Time k-Medoids Clustering via Multi-Armed Bandits.
NeurIPS
Mo Tiwari, Martin Jinye Zhang, James Mayclin, Sebastian Thrun, Chris Piech, Ilan Shomorony
2020 B conf
Co-Teaching Computer Science Across Borders: Human-Centric Learning at Scale.
L@S
Chris Piech, Lisa Yan, Lisa Einstein, Ana Saavedra, Baris Bozkurt, Eliska Sestáková, Ondrej Guth, Nick McKeown
2020 B conf
Human Languages in Source Code: Auto-Translation for Localized Instruction.
L@S
Chris Piech, Sami Abu-El-Haija
2020 B conf
Measuring Ability-to-Learn Using Parametric Learning Gain Functions.
EDM
Chris Piech, Engin Bumbacher, Richard Lee Davis
2020 A* conf
The Stanford Acuity Test: A Precise Vision Test Using Bayesian Techniques and a Discovery in Human Visual Response.
AAAI
Chris Piech, Ali Malik, Laura M. Scott, Robert T. Chang, Charles Lin
2020 B conf
Using Google Search Trends to Estimate Global Patterns in Learning.
L@S
Serhat Arslan, Mo Tiwari, Chris Piech
2020 B conf
Variational Item Response Theory: Fast, Accurate, and Expressive.
EDM
Mike Wu, Richard Lee Davis, Benjamin W. Domingue, Chris Piech, Noah D. Goodman
2020 J jnl
Variational Item Response Theory: Fast, Accurate, and Expressive.
CoRR
Mike Wu, Richard Lee Davis, Benjamin W. Domingue, Chris Piech, Noah D. Goodman
2019 J jnl
Generative Grading: Neural Approximate Parsing for Automated Student Feedback.
CoRR
Ali Malik, Mike Wu, Vrinda Vasavada, Jinpeng Song, John Mitchell, Noah D. Goodman, Chris Piech
2019 B conf
Grades are not Normal: Improving Exam Score Models Using the Logit-Normal Distribution.
EDM
Noah Arthurs, Ben Stenhaug, Sergey Karayev, Chris Piech
2019 J jnl
Human Languages in Source Code: Auto-Translation for Localized Instruction.
CoRR
Chris Piech, Sami Abu-El-Haija
2019 A conf
Pensieve: Feedback on Coding Process for Novices.
SIGCSE
Lisa Yan, Annie Hu, Chris Piech
2019 A conf
The PyramidSnapshot Challenge: Understanding Student Process from Visual Output of Programs.
SIGCSE
Lisa Yan, Nick McKeown, Chris Piech
2019 J jnl
The Stanford Acuity Test: A Probabilistic Approach for Precise Visual Acuity Testing.
CoRR
Chris Piech, Ali Malik, Laura M. Scott, Robert T. Chang, Charles Lin
2019 B conf
Using Latent Variable Models to Observe Academic Pathways.
EDM
Nate Gruver, Ali Malik, Brahm Capoor, Chris Piech, Mitchell L. Stevens, Andreas Paepcke
2019 J jnl
Using Latent Variable Models to Observe Academic Pathways.
CoRR
Nate Gruver, Ali Malik, Brahm Capoor, Chris Piech, Mitchell L. Stevens, Andreas Paepcke
2019 A* conf
Zero Shot Learning for Code Education: Rubric Sampling with Deep Learning Inference.
AAAI
Mike Wu, Milan Mossé, Noah D. Goodman, Chris Piech
2018 J jnl
Achieving Fairness through Adversarial Learning: an Application to Recidivism Prediction.
CoRR
Christina Wadsworth, Francesca Vera, Chris Piech
2018 A conf
BlueBook: A Computerized Replacement for Paper Tests in Computer Science.
SIGCSE
Chris Piech, Chris Gregg
2018 A conf
TMOSS: Using Intermediate Assignment Work to Understand Excessive Collaboration in Large Classes.
SIGCSE
Lisa Yan, Nick McKeown, Mehran Sahami, Chris Piech
2018 J jnl
Zero Shot Learning for Code Education: Rubric Sampling with Deep Learning Inference.
CoRR
Mike Wu, Milan Mossé, Noah D. Goodman, Chris Piech
2017 B conf
Deep Knowledge Tracing On Programming Exercises.
L@S
Lisa Wang, Angela Sy, Larry Liu, Chris Piech
2017 B conf
Learning to Represent Student Knowledge on Programming Exercises Using Deep Learning.
EDM
Lisa Wang, Angela Sy, Larry Liu, Chris Piech
2017 A conf
Sharing and Using Programming Log Data (Abstract Only).
SIGCSE
Thomas W. Price, Neil C. C. Brown, Chris Piech, Kelly Rivers
2016 A conf
As CS Enrollments Grow, Are We Attracting Weaker Students?
SIGCSE
Mehran Sahami, Chris Piech
2016 — —
Uncovering patterns in student work: machine learning to understand human learning.
Chris Piech
2015 B conf
Autonomously Generating Hints by Inferring Problem Solving Policies.
L@S
Chris Piech, Mehran Sahami, Jonathan Huang, Leonidas J. Guibas
2015 — conf
Deep Knowledge Tracing.
NIPS
Chris Piech, Jonathan Bassen, Jonathan Huang, Surya Ganguli, Mehran Sahami, Leonidas J. Guibas, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
2015 J jnl
Deep Knowledge Tracing.
CoRR
Chris Piech, Jonathan Spencer, Jonathan Huang, Surya Ganguli, Mehran Sahami, Leonidas J. Guibas, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein
2015 A* conf
Learning Program Embeddings to Propagate Feedback on Student Code.
ICML
Chris Piech, Jonathan Huang, Andy Nguyen, Mike Phulsuksombati, Mehran Sahami, Leonidas J. Guibas
2015 J jnl
Learning Program Embeddings to Propagate Feedback on Student Code.
CoRR
Chris Piech, Jonathan Huang, Andy Nguyen, Mike Phulsuksombati, Mehran Sahami, Leonidas J. Guibas
2015 — conf
Who Are You? We Really Wanna Know... Especially If You Think You're Like a Computer Scientist.
GenderIT
Rob Semmens, Chris Piech, Michelle Friend
2013 A conf
Deconstructing disengagement: analyzing learner subpopulations in massive open online courses.
LAK
René F. Kizilcec, Chris Piech, Emily Schneider
2013 — conf
Syntactic and Functional Variability of a Million Code Submissions in a Machine Learning MOOC.
AIED Workshops
Jonathan Huang, Chris Piech, Andy Nguyen, Leonidas J. Guibas
2013 B conf
Tuned Models of Peer Assessment in MOOCs.
EDM
Chris Piech, Jonathan Huang, Zhenghao Chen, Chuong B. Do, Andrew Y. Ng, Daphne Koller
2013 J jnl
Tuned Models of Peer Assessment in MOOCs.
CoRR
Chris Piech, Jonathan Huang, Zhenghao Chen, Chuong B. Do, Andrew Y. Ng, Daphne Koller
2012 A conf
Modeling how students learn to program.
SIGCSE
Chris Piech, Mehran Sahami, Daphne Koller, Steve Cooper, Paulo Blikstein