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Leading in Research: Khoury College at Conferences

Every year, numerous researchers at Khoury College make transformative contributions to many fields within computer science, collaborating, publishing, leading national and international projects, and participating in top conferences within their specialty areas.

In 2024, Khoury researchers had a prolific conference presence, presenting four or more publications at 16 conferences and attending 100 conferences, the most ever attended by the college — each with the common focus and goal of providing Khoury College researchers the chance to share their groundbreaking work with their peers.

In 2024:

100

Total number of conferences attended by Khoury researchers

233

Total conference publications

253

Number of faculty who published/presented

(83 unique faculty published or presented at a conference in 2024)

2025 Conference highlights: SIGCSE TS and CHI

As the 2025 conference season gears up, starting with SIGCSE 2025 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from February 26–March 1 and CHI 2025 from April 26–May 1 , take a look at the Khoury-affiliated events and highlights from both.

Khoury College at SIGCSE TS

The logo of the Special Interest Group in Computer Science Education, which is "SIGCSE" in gray and blue letters to the right of a swirled line made up of blue circles

The Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS) is the flagship conference of the Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE).

Highlights from the 2025 conference included:

The Future of CS Education (award for Broadening Participation in Computing Education), a panel led by Jonathan Mwaura, winner of the ACM SIGCSE Broadening Participation in Computing Education Award for 2025.

Khoury faculty Jonathan Mwaura (center) holds an award while standing between two people at SIGSCE
Jonathan Mwaura receives his Broadening Participation in Computing Education award.

Best Paper winner: An MS in CS for Non-CS Majors: A Ten-Year Retrospective
Authors: Logan W. Schmidt, Caitlin J. Kidder, Ildar Akhmetov, Megan Bebis, Alan C. Jamieson, Albert Lionelle, Sarah Maravetz, Sami Rollins, Ethan Selinger

For the last 10 years, Northeastern University has offered a two-semester bridge into a master’s in computer science for people with undergraduate degrees in non-computing disciplines. The bridge program has over 2,000 currently enrolled students with more than 50% women every year since 2020, and domestic enrollment has increased relative to direct-entry master’s students. Our data show that bridge students, including those with non-STEM backgrounds, perform comparably to direct-entry students in terms of GPA and job outcomes.

Other Khoury-affiliated SIGCSE 2025 works

Instructor-Written Hints as Automated Test Suite Quality Feedback
Authors: James Perretta, Andrew DeOrio, Arjun Guha, Jonathan Bell

Examining Teamwork: Evaluating Individual Contributions in Collaborative Software Engineering Projects
Authors: Joydeep Mitra, Eric Gerber

Does Reducing Curricular Complexity Impact Student Success in Computer Science?
Authors: Sumukhi Ganesan, Albert Lionelle, Catherine Gill, Carla Brodley

Gamification of Computer Science Algorithms (live demonstration)
Authors: Lama Hamandi, Hla Htoo, Senay Tilahun, Haider Amin

Does ABET Accreditation Influence the Representation of Women in CS Programs?
Authors: Stefanie Colino Dube, Albert Lionelle

Construction and Preliminary Validation of a Dynamic Programming Concept Inventory
Authors: Matthew Ferland, Varun Nagaraj Rao, Arushi Arora, Drew van der Poel, Michael Luu, Randy Huynh, Frederick Reiber, Sandra Ossman, Seth Poulsen, Michael Shindler

Addressing Challenges in Teaching-Track Faculty Promotion
Authors: Christine Alvarado, Nate Derbinsky, Sarah Heckman, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Harini Ramaprasad, Mark Sherriff

Simulating Requirement Elicitation: Development and Evaluation of a Persona-Based Tool
Authors: Ildar Akhmetov, Mirjana Prpa

Evaluating GenAI’s Effectiveness for Students with Varied Programming Backgrounds in a Software Development Course
Authors: Houda Bouamor, Gabriella Gongora-Svartzman, Larry Heimann, Shihong Huang


Northeastern University and Khoury College at CHI

The logo of the Special Interest Group in Computer Human Interaction, which is "SIGCHI" in black letters to the right of a gold human figure with its arms outstretched

The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of human-computer interaction. In 2025, a record number of Khoury College faculty and student researchers, along with their collaborators in the College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD), the Bouvé College of Health Sciences, the College of Science, and the College of Professional Studies, showcased more than 30 papers, late-breaking works, panels, special interest groups, and other works and events.

In 2025, three Khoury-affiliated works were recognized by an Honorable Mention at ACM CHI. See below, and view the full list of Khoury-affiliated works at the 2025 conference.

2025 Honorable Mentions

Moving Towards Epistemic Autonomy: A Paradigm Shift for Centering Participant Knowledge, in which researchers — including Khoury Assistant Professor Michael Ann DeVito — describe the importance and benefits of epistemic autonomy, the surprisingly novel principle that researchers should respect the rights of people who’ve experienced marginalization to govern knowledge about themselves. They demonstrate the principle firsthand with two of the authors, both trans women, sharing nuanced insights based in their own epistemic autonomy. They also discuss the harms that occur when researchers try to solve complex problems without listening to the people those problems affect. 

The Many Tendrils of the Octopus Map, a study on the history of the octopus map and the ways that the visual metaphor of an octopus can encourage conspiratorial interpretation, that includes Khoury Associate Research Professor Michael Correll among its authors.

Why Can’t Black Women Just Be?: Black Femme Content Creators Navigating Algorithmic Monoliths, in which three Khoury researchers (DeVito, Assistant Professor Alexandra To, and PhD student Gianna Williams), as well as recent CAMD graduate Natalie Chen, interviewed 11 Black femme content creators to find out how they experience social media content moderation, what they do to resist it, and what folk theories they have about TikTok’s algorithm.

Khoury College at CHI through the years

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