Publications

All of my work that I have made some significant research contribution towards are listed here. You can find a comprehensive list of my work on my Google Scholar profile.

Leveraging Past Assignments to Determine If Students Are Using ChatGPT for Their Essays

Yuhui Zhao, Chunhao Zao, Rohit Sridhar, Christopher Cui, Thad Starner

TLDR: Traditional ML methods can differientiate between human and LLM generated answers for specific questions given a ground-truth corpus of both human-written and LLM-written answers.

Published in: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale 2024


Examinator v4.0: Cheating Detection in Online Take-Home Exams

Christopher Cui, Jui-Tse Hung, Vaibhav Malhotra, Hardik Goel, Raghav Apoorv, Thad Starner
equal contribution

TLDR: Using answer timestamps and decision trees to catch cheaters. Extension of Examintor v3

Published in: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale 2024


Socratic Mind: Scalable Oral Assessment Powered By AI

Jui-Tse Hung, Christopher Cui, Diana M. Popescu, Saurabh Chatterjee, Thad Starner

TLDR: Building an AI to evaluate student understanding of concepts through interviews. Try a demo at socraticmind.com.

Published in: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale 2024


Answer Watermarking: Using Answer Generation Assistance Tools to Find Evidence of Cheating

Christopher Cui, Jui-Tse Hung, Pranav Sharma, Saurabh Chatterjee, Thad Starner
shared first author

TLDR: Catching copy-pasting cheaters with invisible byte-characters

Published in: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale 2024


A Mixture-of-Experts Approach to Few-Shot Task Transfer in Open-Ended Text Worlds

Christopher Cui, Xiangyu Peng, Mark Riedl

TLDR: Quickly training roleplaying RL agents using RL agents pre-trained to play other roles in a open-world text game.

Pre-print


Thespian: Multi-Character Text Role-Playing Game Agents

Christopher Cui, Xiangyu Peng, Mark O. Riedl

TLDR: RL agents that can roleplay different characters in a open-world text game.

Published in: Proceedings of the AIIDE Workshop on Experimental AI in Games (EXAG) 2023


Story Shaping: Teaching Agents Human-like Behavior with Stories

Xiangyu Peng, Christopher Cui, Wei Zhou, Renee Jia, Mark O. Riedl
equal contribution

TLDR: Using stories to train RL agents

Published in: Proceedings of the 19th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Interactive and Digital Entertainment (AIIDE) 2023


Examinator v3.0: Cheating Detection in Online Take-Home Exams

Jui-Tse Hung, Christopher Cui, Varun Agarwal, Saurabh Chatterjee, Raghav Apoorv, Rocko Graziano, Thad Starner

TLDR: Statistical analysis on student responses to catch cheaters

Published in: Proceedings of the Tenth ACM Conference on Learning@ Scale 2023


Neural Story Planning

Anbang Ye, Christopher Cui, Taiwei Shi, Mark O. Riedl

TLDR: Using LLMs (before they were large) to generate stories by backwards chaining preconditions and effects

Published in: Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Creative AI Across Modalities 2023