University of Toronto · McMaster University
CORE Lab
CORE Lab (Computational Research and Education) studies how people learn, teach, and work in computationally-driven fields.
About the lab
Our research spans computing education, assessment design, educational data mining, student experience, and human-centered AI tools for learning and research.
The lab brings together faculty, graduate students, and undergraduate researchers from the University of Toronto, McMaster University, and partner institutions.
Research areas
- Adaptive Systems
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computing Education
- Educational Technology
- Human-Centered AI
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Learning Science & Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Student Experience
- UI/UX
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Publications
Our research appears across leading computing education and human-computer interaction (HCI) venues, spanning full papers, working-group reports, and posters.
Where our research appears
Tile area is each venue’s share of all 132 publications, across 37 venues
- ITiCSE: 32 research outputs
- SIGCSE TS: 20 research outputs
- Pre-print: 16 research outputs
- Koli Calling: 8 research outputs
- CHI: 6 research outputs
- DataEd: 4 research outputs
- ICER: 4 research outputs
- Prague Stringology Conference: 3 research outputs
- WCCCE: 3 research outputs
- COMPSAC: 2 research outputs
- DIS: 2 research outputs
- PACM HCI: 2 research outputs
- SIGITE: 2 research outputs
- SIGMOD: 2 research outputs
- Unlisted: 2 research outputs
- 2021 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN): 1 research output
- AAAI: 1 research output
- ACE: 1 research output
- ACM Inroads: 1 research output
- ACM SIGMOD Record: 1 research output
- ACM Transactions on Computing Education: 1 research output
- AIED: 1 research output
- Algorithms: 1 research output
- CHIWORK: 1 research output
- CompEd: 1 research output
- Complex & Intelligent Systems: 1 research output
- Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Medicine in Europe: 1 research output
- Discover Computing: 1 research output
- EduCHI: 1 research output
- EDUCON: 1 research output
- EuroVis 2025 - Education Papers: 1 research output
- HCOMP: 1 research output
- IUI: 1 research output
- L@S: 1 research output
- LAK: 1 research output
- Nature Human Behaviour: 1 research output
- Proceedings of the 8th Educational Data Mining in Computer Science Education Workshop (CSEDM 2024): 1 research output
- SFU Educational Review: 1 research output
- VL/HCC: 1 research output
Affiliations & grant support
CORE Lab brings together researchers at the University of Toronto and McMaster University, with support from Canadian and international research organizations.
Affiliations
Sponsors & funders
NSERCCanada
Learning Engineering Tools CompetitionInternational innovation prize
ANRFrance
Data Sciences InstituteUniversity of Toronto
Our support spans national, international, and institutional programs: Canada’s NSERC Discovery Grants and Collaborative Research and Training Experience program (CREATE); the Learning Engineering Tools Competition; France’s ANR; and the University of Toronto’s Data Sciences Institute (DSI), Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy (ISUP), and Learning & Education Advancement Fund (LEAF), with additional support from McMaster University.
Around the lab
Snapshots from lab events, conferences, and everyday life in the office.
