[2026/07]
Participated in LearnLab Summer School at Carnegie Mellon University, conducting research on student–AI interactions in the Computer Science Education Research track.
ABOUT ME
Hi, I'm Shenming (Simon), a rising second-year master's student in Computer Science at Northwestern University. I received my bachelor's degree from Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University and the University of Liverpool, where I was fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jun Qi and Prof. Teng Ma. I also spent a wonderful summer at Texas A&M University as a visiting research intern with Prof. Meng Xia. Those experiences shaped how I think about research, collaboration, and building systems that support people more thoughtfully.
My research interests include Human-AI Interaction, AI in Education, and Computational Social Science. Feel free to contact me by email if you are interested in discussing or collaborating with me!
Outside of academics, I enjoy soccer, music, and photography. Feel free to check out my Plog for a glimpse of my photography journey~Thank you for visiting my page!
I am currently applying to PhD programs for Fall 2027 and am also open to research assistant and collaboration opportunities. Please feel free to reach out if you see a potential research fit!
NEWS
[2026/07]
Joined the Prytaneum team under Prof. Kevin Esterling, working on AI-assisted moderation and LLM-based user simulation for online deliberation.
[2026/04]
Began working with Prof. Yulin Yu on research in computational social science and human–AI innovation, with a focus on scientific dataset reuse and novelty.
[2026/03]
Began working on the LearnAnything project with Prof. David Zaretsky, exploring Computer Science Education and Multi-agent systems.
[2025/09]
Started my M.S. in Computer Science at Northwestern University, with research interests in Human–AI Interaction and Computer Science Education.
[2025/05]
My first-author paper EEG-TBSANet on EEG-based epilepsy diagnosis was accepted to IEEE INDIN 2025!
[2025/01]
Our paper CPVis on multimodal learning analytics for collaborative programming was accepted to CHI 2025! See you in Yokohama 🇯🇵!
[2024/05]
Joined Dream Lab at Texas A&M University as a visiting research intern, working on multimodal learning analytics for collaborative programming.
PUBLICATIONS
EDUCATION
Northwestern University
M.S. in Computer Science
Sep. 2025 - Jul. 2027 (expected)
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (University of Liverpool)
B.S. in Information and Computing Science
Sep. 2021 - Jul. 2025