Welcome!

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

  • Three publications accepted at SIGCSE'26

    A few weeks ago, I received the acceptance notifications for three publications at the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium 2026: two extended abstracts (posters) and one abstract for a Birds of a Feather session! The first extended abstract is titled “Exploring Differences in Perceived Confidence Between Native and Transfer Computer Science...

  • Quarterly update SS25

    Here is our status at the end of the summer 2025.

  • Quarterly update SQ25

    Here is our status at the end of the spring quarter 2025.

  • VRV poster at SIGCSE'25

    I presented our VRV (Virtual RISC-V) educational simulator at the ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium. Big thanks to Noah Krim and Gabbriel Bui to make it happen!

  • Quarterly update WQ25

    Here is our status at the end of the winter quarter 2025.