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Essa Imhmed, Ph.D.

Selected Publications


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  1. E. Imhmed, E. Ceh-Varela, and M. Elfituri. (2025, November). Using Scrum to Improve Student Teamwork in a Project-Based Hybrid Learning Setting. In 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-8). IEEE.

  2. E. Imhmed, E. Ceh-Varela, L. Scherer, G. Candal, and I. Sanjaya. (2025, November). WIP: CodeInspector: Automated LLM-Supported CS1-Level Code Assessment. In 2025 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

  3. E. Imhmed, E., Sanjaya, I., Candal, G., Pasko, B., & Scherer, L. (2025, July). BugTor: A Feedback-Driven Static Analysis Tailored for Novice Java Programmers. In World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering & Applied Computing (pp. 16-26). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

  4. Ceh-Varela, E., Imhmed, E., Parten, C., & Scherer, L. (2025). Enhancing Code Assessment and Feedback Generation with GenAI Agents. In Innovative Educational Assessment with Generative AI: Opportunities, Challenges, and Practical Case Studies (pp. 275-297). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

  5. Ceh-Varela, E., & Imhmed, E. (2024, May). Investigating freshmen students’ coding standards challenges using NLP techniques. In International Conference on Information, Communication and Computing Technology (pp. 3-15). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.

  6. Imhmed, E., Ceh-Varela, E., Abu-Gellban, H., & Kilgore, S. (2024). Fostering code quality practices among undergraduate novice programmers. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, 39(7), 21-32.

  7. Imhmed, E., Ceh-Varela, E., & Kilgore, S. (2023, December). Identifying code quality issues for undergraduate students using static analysis and NLP. In 2023 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI) (pp. 1527-1533). IEEE.

  8. Imhmed, E., Ceh-Varela, E., Cook, J., & Parten, C. (2023, June). Evaluation of the performance impact of spm allocation on a novel scratchpad memory. In 2023 IEEE 47th Annual Computers, Software, and Applications Conference (COMPSAC) (pp. 972-973). IEEE.

  9. Imhmed, E., Cook, J., & Badawy, A. H. (2022, September). Evaluation of a novel scratchpad memory through compiler supported simulation. In 2022 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference (HPEC) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.