Publications

C — Conference papers. P — Pre-prints.

[C24] Enhancing Debugging Skills with AI-Powered Assistance: A Real-Time Tool for Debugging Support

Elizaveta Artser, Daniil Karol, Anna Potriasaeva, Aleksei Rostovskii, Katsiaryna Dzialets, Ekaterina Koshchenko, Xiaotian Su, April Yi Wang, and Anastasiia Birillo
April, 2026. Accepted to ICSE'26 (A*).

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[C23] Understanding Student Interaction with AI-Powered Next-Step Hints: Strategies and Challenges

Anastasiia Birillo, Aleksei Rostovskii, Yaroslav Golubev and Hieke Keuning
February, 2026. Published in the proceedings of SIGCSE'26 (A).

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[C22] Bringing Interactive Learning to Industrial IDEs: Kotlin Notebook and LLM-Generated Exercises

Daniil Karol, Ksenia Shneyveys, Roman Belov, and Anastasiia Birillo
February, 2026. Published in the proceedings of SIGCSE'26 (A).

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[C21] KOALA: a Configurable Tool for Collecting IDE Data When Solving Programming Tasks

Daniil Karol, Elizaveta Artser, Ilya Vlasov, Yaroslav Golubev, Hieke Keuning, and Anastasiia Birillo
October, 2025. Published in the proceedings of CompEd'25.

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[C20] Everything You Need to Know About CS Education: Open Results from A Survey of More Than 18,000 Participants

Katsiaryna Dzialets, Aleksandra Makeeva, Ilya Vlasov, Anna Potriasaeva, Aleksey Rostovskiy, Yaroslav Golubev, and Anastasiia Birillo
October, 2025. Published in the proceedings of CompEd'25.

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[C19] GenAI Integration in Upper-Level Computing Courses

Dennis J Bouvier, Bruno Pereira Cipriano, Richard Glassey, Raymond Pettit, Emma Anderson, Anastasia Birillo, Ryan Dougherty, Orit Hazzan, Olga Petrovska, Nuno Pombo, Ebrahim Rahimi, Charanya Ramakrishnan, Alexander Steinmaurer, Shubbhi Taneja, Muhammad Usman, Annapurna Vadaparty, Govindha Ramaiah Yeluripati
July, 2025. Published in the proceedings of ITiCSE'25 (A).

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[C18] Blending Project-Based and in-IDE Learning: The Kotlin Onboarding Course for Enhanced Programming Skills

Anastasiia Birillo, Ilya Vlasov, and Yaroslav Golubev
July, 2025. Published in the proceedings of ITiCSE'25 (A).

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[C17] Multimodal Analogy Generation in Programming Education

Yuri Noviello, Anastasiia Birillo, and Gosia Migut
July, 2025. Published in the proceedings of ITiCSE'25 (A).

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[C16] KOALA: Customizable IDE Data Collection Tool

Daniil Karol, Elizaveta Artser, Ilya Vlasov, Yaroslav Golubev, Hieke Keuning, and Anastasiia Birillo
July, 2025. Published in the proceedings of ITiCSE'25 (A).

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[C15] AI Debugging Assistant: Enhancing Debugging Skills With Intelligent Guidance

Elizaveta Artser, Daniil Karol, Anna Potriasaeva, Aleksey Rostovskiy, and Anastasiia Birillo
July, 2025. Published in the proceedings of ITiCSE'25 (A).

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[C14] In-IDE Programming Courses: Learning Software Development in a Real-World Setting

Anastasiia Birillo, Ilya Vlasov, Katsiaryna Dzialets, Hieke Keuning, and Timofey Bryksin
May, 2025. Published in the proceedings of IDE'25 (Workshop).

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[C13] One Step at a Time: Combining LLMs and Static Analysis to Generate Next-Step Hints for Programming Tasks

Anastasiia Birillo, Elizaveta Artser, Anna Potriasaeva, Ilya Vlasov, Katsiaryna Dzialets, Yaroslav Golubev, Igor Gerasimov, Hieke Keuning, and Timofey Bryksin
November, 2024. Published in the proceedings of Koli Calling.

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[C12] Bringing Industry-Grade Code Quality and Practices into Software Engineering Education

Anastasiia Birillo
November, 2024. Published in the proceedings of Koli Calling.

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[C11] Clustering MOOC Programming Solutions to Diversify Their Presentation to Students

Elizaveta Artser, Anastasiia Birillo, Yaroslav Golubev, Maria Tigina, Hieke Keuning, Nikolay Vyahhi, and Timofey Bryksin
November, 2024. Published in the proceedings of Koli Calling.

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[C10] Using a Low-Code Environment to Teach Programming in the Era of LLMs

Anna Potriasaeva, Katsiaryna Dzialets, Yaroslav Golubev, and Anastasiia Birillo
August, 2024. Published in the proceedings of ICER'24 (A*).

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[C9] Bridging Education and Development: IDEs as Interactive Learning Platforms

Anastasiia Birillo, Maria Tigina, Zarina Kurbatova, Anna Potriasaeva, Ilya Vlasov, Valerii Ovchinnikov, and Igor Gerasimov
April, 2024. Published in the proceedings of IDE'24 (Workshop).

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[C8] Detecting Code Quality Issues in Pre-written Templates of Programming Tasks in Online Courses

Anastasiia Birillo, Elizaveta Artser, Yaroslav Golubev, Maria Tigina, Hieke Keuning, Nikolay Vyahhi, and Timofey Bryksin
July, 2023. Published in the proceedings of ITiCSE'23 (A).

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[C7] Analyzing the Quality of Submissions in Online Programming Courses

Maria Tigina, Anastasiia Birillo, Yaroslav Golubev, Hieke Keuning, Nikolay Vyahhi, and Timofey Bryksin
May, 2023. Published in the proceedings of ICSE'23 (A*).

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[C6] Lupa: A Framework for Large Scale Analysis of the Programming Language Usage

Anna Vlasova, Maria Tigina, Ilya Vlasov, Anastasiia Birillo, Yaroslav Golubev, and Timofey Bryksin
May, 2022. Published in the proceedings of MSR'22 (A).

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[C5] Reflekt: a Library for Compile-Time Reflection in Kotlin

Anastasiia Birillo, Elena Lyulina, Maria Malysheva, Vladislav Tankov, and Timofey Bryksin
May, 2022. Published in the proceedings of ICSE'22 (A*).

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[C4] Hyperstyle: A Tool for Assessing the Code Quality of Solutions to Programming Assignments

Anastasiia Birillo, Ilya Vlasov, Artyom Burylov, Vitalii Selishchev, Artyom Goncharov, Elena Tikhomirova, Nikolay Vyahhi, and Timofey Bryksin
March, 2022. Published in the proceedings of SIGCSE'22 (A).

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[C3] TaskTracker-tool: a Toolkit for Tracking of Code Snapshots and Activity Data During Solution of Programming Tasks

Elena Lyulina, Anastasiia Birillo, Vladimir Kovalenko, and Timofey Bryksin
March, 2021. Published in the proceedings of SIGCSE'21 (A).

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[C2] Smart Caching for Efficient Functional Dependency Discovery

Anastasiia Birillo and Nikita Bobrov
September, 2019. Published in the proceedings of ADBIS'19 (C).

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[C1] A Survey of Database Dependency Concepts

Nikita Bobrov, Anastasiia Birillo, and George Chernishev
April, 2017. Published in the proceedings of SEIM'17 (Regional).

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