| Jul 24, 2025 |
“StoryEnsemble: Enabling Dynamic Exploration & Iteration in the Design Process with AI and Forward-Backward Propagation” is accepted at UIST 2025!
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| May 24, 2025 |
Serving as an Associate Chair (AC) @ CHI’26.
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| Feb 4, 2025 |
Serving as an Associate Chair (AC) @ UIST’25.
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| Jan 16, 2025 |
Two papers are conditionally accepted at CHI 2025!
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| Dec 12, 2024 |
“Exploring the Design Space of Cognitive Engagement Techniques with AI-Generated Code for Enhanced Learning” led by Majeed Kazemitabaar is conditionally accepted at IUI 2025. Congrats Majeed!
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| Jun 29, 2024 |
“CoLadder: Manipulating Code Generation with Multi-Level Blocks” led by Ryan Yen is conditionally accepted at UIST 2024. Congrats Ryan!
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| May 27, 2024 |
Serving as an Associate Chair (AC) @ CHI’25.
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| Jan 18, 2024 |
“Luminate: Structured Generation and Exploration of Design Space with Large Language Models for Human-AI Co-Creation” is accepted at CHI 2024.
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| Nov 22, 2023 |
I am giving a talk titled “Expanding the Thinkable Territory by Building AI Tools Inspired by Optical Instruments” at KAIST (Dec. 15), Naver (Dec. 20), and Seoul National University (Jan. 8th, 2024).
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| Nov 6, 2023 |
Received “Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews” for CHI 2024 papers
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| Oct 9, 2023 |
After a wonderful year at the Design Lab and Creativity Lab @ UC San Diego, I am joining DGP Lab @ University of Toronto as a Postdoctoral Fellow.
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| Aug 4, 2023 |
“Sensecape: Enabling Multilevel Exploration and Sensemaking with Large Language Models” is accepted at UIST 2023.
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| Apr 28, 2023 |
“Metaphorian: Leveraging Large Language Models to Support Extended Metaphor Creation for Science Writing” is accepted at DIS 2023.
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| Nov 8, 2022 |
Received 2 x “Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews” for CHI 2023 papers
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| Oct 31, 2022 |
Presented CodeToon at UIST 2022! [Talk]
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| Oct 13, 2022 |
CodeToon was covered in TechXplore! [Article]
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| Aug 5, 2022 |
“CodeToon: Story Ideation, Auto Comic Generation, and Structure Mapping for Code-Driven Storytelling” is accepted at UIST 2022.
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| Jun 13, 2022 |
Our DIS 2022 paper received Best Paper Honorable Mention Award!🎖
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| Jun 8, 2022 |
Taught Experiment Design at University of Toronto’s Human-AI Interaction Research School
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| Apr 5, 2022 |
“PrivacyToon: Concept-driven Storytelling with Creativity Support for Privacy Concepts” is accepted at DIS 2022.
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| Mar 15, 2022 |
Successfully defended my PhD thesis!
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| Feb 10, 2022 |
Received 2 x “Special Recognitions for Outstanding Reviews” for CHI 2022 papers
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| Jan 18, 2022 |
“Leveraging Generative Conversational AI to Develop a Creative Learning Environment for Computational Thinking” is accepted at IUI 2022.
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| Nov 15, 2021 |
Awarded LITE Grant to work on “Developing Curriculum and Guidelines for A New Approach of Teaching and Learning Programming with Comics”
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| Nov 6, 2021 |
“CodeToon: A New Visual Programming Environment Using Comics for Teaching and Learning Programming” is accepted and will be presented at SIGCSE 2022
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| Apr 21, 2021 |
Excited to present recent Coding Strip projects at UWTL 2021!
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| Mar 16, 2021 |
Presenting paper and CodingToon at SIGCSE 2021!
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| Jan 21, 2021 |
Selected as finalist for Adobe Research Fellowship!
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| Dec 16, 2020 |
My coding strip research is covered in press! [Article] [Twitter] [UWaterloo News] [ACM TechNews]
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| Nov 20, 2020 |
“CodingToon: Using Authoring Tool to Create Concept-driven Comics for Programming Comics” is accepted and will be presented at SIGCSE 2021
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| Oct 9, 2020 |
“Using Comics to Introduce and Reinforce Programming Concepts in CS1” is accepted at SIGCSE 2021
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| Aug 11, 2020 |
Attending and presenting at VL/HCC 2020
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| Aug 10, 2020 |
Coding strip website has been revamped!
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| Apr 28, 2020 |
“Coding Strip: A Pedagogical Tool for Teaching and Learning Programming Concepts through Comics” is accepted at VL/HCC 2020
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| Mar 23, 2020 |
“How Do We Design for Concreteness Fading? Survey, General Framework, and Design Dimensions” is accepted at IDC 2020
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| Feb 11, 2020 |
“Curiosity Notebook: A Platform for Learning by Teaching Conversational Agents” is accepted at CHI 2020
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| Jan 6, 2020 |
Teaching CS105 - Introduction to Computer Programming this term
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| Dec 16, 2019 |
Completed Comp-II and now a Ph.D. Candidate
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| Aug 11, 2019 |
Attended ICER’19 Doctoral Consortium in Toronto! Had an amazing time!
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| Jan 3, 2019 |
Awarded Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) Full Grant for my 2-year research project on programming education [description] [proposal]
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