Publications

Yee Kit Chan*, Erica Lai*, Yu Chen. Teaching Undergraduate MIS Students Hands-on Generative AI Development Skills. Journal of Information Systems Education. 2026. Undergraduate co-authors

Gabriel Granco, Yu Chen, Heather Macias, Yunfei Hou, and Frank A. Gomez. Empowering Students to Engage with Climate Change Action: A Project-Based Module for Artificial Intelligence Literacy and Sustainability Thinking. The Professional Geographer (2026): 1–12.

Ellen Zheng, Yu Chen, Yee Kit Chan*, Erica Lai*, Leslie J. Albert. Developing Chatbots for Sustainability: Experiential Learning in an Undergraduate Management Information Systems (MIS) Course. The 15th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) 2025. Undergraduate co-authors

Gabriel Granco, Yu Chen, Ellen Zheng. What Students Learn When They Build an Artificial Intelligence Solution for Climate Change Action. The 15th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (EAAI) 2025.

I. Reihanian*, Y. Hou, Y. Chen, Y. Zheng*. A Review of Generative AI in Computer Science Education: Challenges and Opportunities in Accuracy, Authenticity, and Assessment. In: Arabnia, H.R. et al. (eds) Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. CSCI 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2504. Springer, Cham. 2025. Undergraduate co-authors

Yu Chen, Gabriel Granco, Yunfei Hou, Heather Macias, Frank A Gomez. AI for Social Good Education at Hispanic Serving Institutions. Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series, v.3, 2024.

Yu Chen, Leslie J. Albert, and Heather Macias. (2023) Prototyping AI-Powered Social Innovation in an Undergraduate MIS course. International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) 2023. Best Short Paper Nominee

Yu Chen, Scott Jensen, Malu Roldan, Shannon Harper. (2023) Pro or Con? Introducing AI Ethics Debates in an Undergraduate MIS Course. The American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2023. Best AMCIS 2023 Top 25% ERF Papers

Yu Chen and Timothy Hill. (2023). AI for Social Good (AI4SG) Education in an Undergraduate Introductory MIS Course. The American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2023. Best AMCIS 2023 Top 25% ERF Papers

Yu Chen, Leslie Jordan Albert, and Scott Jensen. Innovation farm: Teaching Artificial Intelligence through gamified social entrepreneurship in an introductory MIS course. Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education. 2021.

Yu Chen and Malu Roldan. Digital Innovation for COVID-19: Turning Challenges to Opportunities. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 2021.

Yu Chen and Timothy R. Hill. Teaching Business Students Chatbots: First Forays and Lessons Learned. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2020.

Bach Nguyen* and Yu Chen. What Would Frankenstein Say About AI? Philosophical and Moral Considerations for AI System Designers. 27th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (in press). 2026. Undergraduate first author

Erica Lai*, Qingyu Huang*, Xiaoyue Cheng*, Yu Chen. InspireTrace: A Generative AI System for Creative Scaffolding with Source Attribution. AAAI Spring Symposium 2026 (in press). Undergraduate first authors

Kiley Huynh*, Yu Chen, and Timothy R. Hill. Aspire AI: Empowering MIS Career Guidance with Generative AI. The American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2025. Undergraduate first author

Hannah Maryam*, Anushka Nair*, Ellie Shorten*, Yu Chen, and Timothy R. Hill. ParkPal: Enhancing Urban Park Exploration Using Generative AI. The American Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2025. Undergraduate first authors

Michelle Ha* and Yu Chen. SJ Urban Impact: Generative AI Powered System for Participatory Civic Engagement Among Young Adults. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII) 2025. Pages 285–293. Springer Nature Switzerland. Undergraduate first author

V. Bhatt*, Z. Yu*, Y. Hou, B. Khan, K. Dajani and J. Jin. From Prompts to Performance: Leveraging LLMs for Enhanced Educational AI Interactions. 2025 IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI), Santa Clara, CA, USA, 2025, pp. 188–195. doi: 10.1109/CAI64502.2025.00037. Undergraduate first authors

V. Bhatt*, Z. Yu*, Y. Hou and J. Jin. ChatGPT as a Programming Tutor: Student Perceptions, Effectiveness, and Challenges. 2025 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), London, United Kingdom, 2025, pp. 1–10. doi: 10.1109/EDUCON62633.2025.11016463. Undergraduate first authors

A. Nalluri* and Y. Zhang. A Smart Hybrid Enhanced Recommendation and Personalization Algorithm Using Machine Learning. Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (KDIR 2024), SciTePress, pages 465–472. 2024. doi: 10.5220/0013064100003838. Undergraduate first author

Yu Chen, Scott Jensen., Leslie J. Albert, Sambhav Gupta* & Terri Lee*. (2022). Artificial Intelligence (AI) Student Assistants in the Classroom: Designing Chatbots to Support Student Success. Information Systems Frontiers, 1–22. Undergraduate co-authors

Yu Chen, Tianjie Zhu*, Simran Bhalla*, Nitin Aggarwal, Larry Gee. A Conversational Goal Setting Buddy for Student Learning. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2022). Best AMCIS 2022 Top 25% ERF Papers Undergraduate authors

Lee, Terri*, Tianjie Zhu*, Sophia Liu*, Linh Trac*, Zizhen Huang*, and Yu Chen. “CASExplorer: A Conversational Academic and Career Advisor for College Students.” In The Ninth International Symposium of Chinese CHI (Chinese CHI 2021), 2021. Undergraduate authors

Sambhav Gupta*, Yu Chen, Yanxia Zhang, and Richard Sessions. “Artificially Intelligent (AI) Drones for First Responders.” (2020). Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS) 2020. Undergraduate first author

Tianjie Zhu*, Michael Chiang*, Linh Trac*, Joshua Zanger*, Alison Nguyen*, Yu Chen. MyMeals: Intelligent Healthy Meal Planning Assistant During COVID-19. ACM DIS 2020 Workshop on Weaving Healthy Behaviors into New Technology Routines. Undergraduate first authors

Sambhav Gupta*, Krithika Jagannath, Nitin Aggarwal, Ramamurti Sridar, Shawn Wilde, Yu Chen. Artificially Intelligent (AI) Tutors in the Classroom: A Need Assessment Study of Designing Chatbots to Support Student Learning. Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2019). Undergraduate first author

Terri Lee*, Krithika Jagannath, Nitin Aggarwal, Ramamurti Sridar, Shawn Wilde, Timothy Hill, Yu Chen. Intelligent Career Advisers in Your Pocket? A Need Assessment Study of Chatbots for Student Career Advising. Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2019). Undergraduate first author

Sambhav Gupta* and Yu Chen. Supporting Inclusive Learning Using Chatbots? A Chatbot-led Interview Study. Journal of Information Systems Education. Undergraduate first author