Christopher Piech

Christopher Piech is an Assistant Professor (Teaching) in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University, with a courtesy appointment in the Graduate School of Education. He serves as a Faculty Affiliate at the Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) and is affiliated with the Symbolic Systems Program.

• Current courses: AI for Social Good (CS 21SI), Introduction to Probability for Computer Scientists (CS 109), Researching Presenting and Publishing Work in AI & Education (CS 220/EDUC 481)
• Advises 11 Master's students and co-advises 3 Doctoral students

His research focuses on computational education, leveraging artificial intelligence to enhance learning analytics, student collaboration detection, and knowledge tracing in programming education. Publications span ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) and NeurIPS conferences.

Key article trends include: (1) AI-driven educational tools for code analysis, (2) collaboration monitoring in large classes, and (3) probabilistic models for student learning trajectories.