Correcting my SIGCSE 2026 record
Correction notice. The original version of this page, published 2026-07-29, announced a pair of accepted SIGCSE TS 2026 contributions. That was wrong: one of the two things I listed was not my work at all. This page has been corrected in place, at its original address, so that anything linking here lands on the correction rather than on a dead link. The record below is the one to cite.
I have one contribution at SIGCSE TS 2026, and it is a poster abstract. For a while I described my record as two SIGCSE TS 2026 papers. Both halves of that were wrong: the work is a poster abstract rather than a paper, and one of the two things I listed was somebody else's poster entirely. Here is the corrected record, the evidence behind it, and what I changed.
What is true. I am a co-author on Exploring Bilingual Coding for Inclusive Computer Science Learning, in the Proceedings of the 57th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS 2026), V.2 — doi:10.1145/3770761.3777339. I am listed seventh in the author order. It is a mixed-methods study of 60 bilingual participants, run in Dr. Ethel Tshukudu's CS Education Research Lab at San José State University.
The finding still stands and I still think it matters. Across the 60 participants there were pre-to-post improvements in programming confidence, computing identity, enjoyment and motivation, and novices gained more than experienced programmers. The bilingual-versus-English comparison itself was not statistically significant (Cohen's d 0.25–0.40), and the abstract reports no percentage figures at all — read the effects out of the published abstract, not out of a blog post. Confidence is not a soft metric in intro CS. It is the thing that decides whether someone comes back for the second class.
What was not true. I also listed a poster, on using knowledge graphs and retrieval to sequence CS material around what an individual learner already knows. That poster exists and it was presented at the same conference. It is not mine. It belongs to a research team at Pace University, and their four names are the ones on the registered record. Mine is not among them. I have removed it from this site, from my resume, and from the machine-readable files that search engines and AI crawlers read.
How I checked. The publisher's deposit with Crossref is the authoritative record, and for that poster it lists four authors, none of them me. A search by title returns exactly one work, so there is no alternate version carrying my name. Separately, Crossref notifies ORCID whenever a publisher attaches your ORCID iD to a submission. Mine fired three times — February, April and June 2026 — and every one of those notices says Works (1): the bilingual coding poster abstract, and nothing else.
OpenAlex, Semantic Scholar and DBLP each show a count of one for me, which is consistent with that. It is worth saying what an index count does and does not prove: indexers only see a work once a publisher deposits metadata for it, so an absent index record is evidence about publication status, not about authorship. The DOI and the ORCID notices are the stronger evidence here.
How it happened. I do not have a clean account of the original error, and I am not going to invent one. What I can say is that I never held an acceptance record for the Pace poster, and I did not go and check before I wrote it down. I repeated something I believed instead of something I had verified. The fix for that is not a better memory. It is a source you can point at.
If this reached you. If you read an earlier version of this post, or received an application, a message, or a CV from me quoting a different count, this page supersedes them. Cite the DOI, and call the work a poster abstract, because that is what it is.
I would rather publish a record I can point at a source for, line by line, than a number that flatters me. Leaving this page up, at the address it always had, with the mistake still on it, is part of that.
The rest of the original post I still stand by: I got into that lab as a freshman by emailing a professor and offering to do the boring part. Every undergrad reading this can do the same thing. The email is free. Just check what you write down afterwards.
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