Track 5: Intelligent Teaching Assistant in Programming Education

Track leader at TU Delft: Gosia Migut
Track leader at JetBrains: Anastasia Birillo
Phd researcher(s): Yuri Noviello (TU Delft)

This track aims to develop an intelligent, AI-powered teaching assistant that provides personalized, context-aware support for programming education while stimulating knowledge transfer. We will focus on different aspects of AI context-aware support, from improving complex code generation from natural language, through RAG supported automatic hints generation, to methaphor-based explanation of concepts and generation of personalized teaching materials. All to improve students learning experince and efficacy in achiving learning objectives.

MSc Students:

• Casper Dekeling: Thesis
• Arnav Chopra: Thesis

Track News

Publications

1. Yuri Noviello, Anastasiia Birillo, and Gosia Migut. ANVIL: Analogies and Videos for Lecturers. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED — Tool contribution), 2026
2. Yuri Noviello, Naaz Sibia, Anastasiia Birillo, Thomas Overklift Vaupel Klein, Michael Liut, and Gosia Migut. AI-Generated Traces for Novice Programmers: Learning Effects and Learner Differences in a Multi-Institutional Study. ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE), 2026
3. Anastasiia Birillo, Hieke Keuning, Gosia Migut, Katsiaryna Dzialets, and Yaroslav Golubev. Creating in-IDE Programming Courses. ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS — Tutorial 104), 2025
4. Yuri Noviello, Anastasiia Birillo, and Gosia Migut. Multimodal Analogy Generation in Programming Education. Proceedings of the 30th ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education, Volume 2 (ITiCSE — Poster contribution), 2025
5. Yuri Noviello. Designing and Evaluating AI-Generated Multimodal Analogy-Based Explanations. 26th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED — Doctoral Consortium), 2025
6. Ilya Zakharov, Liudmila Piatnitckaia, Anastasiia Birillo, Agnia Sergeyuk, and Maliheh Izadi. When People Come First, A Human-Centered Approach to Computer Science Education. ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (ITiCSE — Panel contribution), 2025