SIGCSE TS 2026 (series) / Sam Lau

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Name:Sam Lau
Bio:
Sam Lau is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego. His research creates novel interfaces for learning and teaching data science, including the Pandas Tutor tool (https://pandastutor.com/) which serves over 40,000 people per year. He is the author of Learning Data Science, published by O’Reilly Media in 2023.
Country:United States
Affiliation:University of California at San Diego
Personal website: https://lau.ucsd.edu/
Research interests:Human-Computer Interaction. End-User Programming, Data Science Education
Contributions
2026
SIGCSE TS
- Improving LLM-Generated Educational Content: A Case Study on Prototyping, Prompt Engineering, and Evaluating a Tool for Generating Programming Problems for Data Science
- Designing and Implementing Skill Tests at Scale: Frequent, Computer-Based, Proctored Assessments with Minimal Infrastructure Requirements
- Committee Member in Program Committee Members: Reviewers
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