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LupLab is a Computer Science Education (CSEd) research group, hosted in the Department of Computer Science, at the University of California, Davis, and headed by Prof. Joël Porquet-Lupine.

Our activities focus primarily on pedagogical and curricular innovation for teaching undergraduate computer science courses.

Most recent news/blog entries

  • Quarterly update SS24

    Here is our status at the end of the summer 2024.

  • Summer interns

    LupLab welcomed three interns this summer: Jhaydine Bandola, Shengmin Liu, and Kushagra Tiwari. Jhaydine is a 2nd-year computer science undergrad and is part of the UC LEADS program. She implemented some new features in LupBook. Kushagra and Shengmin are both 3rd-year electrical engineering undergrads and participated in the CITRIS Workforce...

  • Quarterly update SQ24

    Here is our status at the end of the spring quarter 2024.

  • Gender differences in (remote) class participation in core CS courses

    Then the pandemic happened and as we continued studying these gender differences for the same two core CS courses, which were now taught remotely, we noticed a dramatic change. For the first time, male and female students were participating at the same rate on the online class forum.

  • LupBook poster at the UC Davis URC conference

    Three students from LupLab have presented their work on LupBook at the 35th Annual UC Davis Undergraduate Research, Scholarship & Creative Activities Conference last week. Jillian Lim presented her work on adding a navigational sidebar and improving the UI/UX, while Arnav Rastogi and Russell Umboh presented the new interactive activities...