Michael Liut

Who is Michael?

Michael Liut is an Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream
(Computer Science) in the Department of Mathematical and Computational Sciences and cross-appointed in both the Institute for the Study of University Pedagogy, University of Toronto Mississauga and in the Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.

Michael completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science and M.Eng. in Software Engineering under the supervision of Dr. Antoine Deza and Dr. Frantisek Franek at the Advanced Optimization Research Laboratory (AdvOL) in the Department of Computing and Software, Faculty of Engineering, at McMaster University.

Research Areas & Interests

Adaptive Systems
(Behavioural and Educational Tools, Conversational Agents, User Experience, User-Adaptive, User-Centred and Personalized Systems)
Algorithms
(Machine Learning, Multi-Armed Bandit, Natural Language Processing, Navigation and Positioning, Strings, Text Mining)
Computer Science Education / Computing Education
(Adaptive and Behavioural Interventions, Data Systems, Dynamic Experimentation, Learning Strategies, Predictive/Prescriptive Modelling, Student Support)

More Information

GitHub:
https://github.com/MichaelLiut

LinkedIn:
https://ca.linkedin.com/in/mliut

Publications:
DBLP, Google Scholar, ACM Profile, and ORCiD

News!

I was on CBC's Metro Morning with David Commons talking about AI in Education! Listen to the audio!
My Educational Tool QuickTA is currently deployed in courses at the University of Toronto Mississauga!
- Checkout UofT's Magazine article on "Education is Evolving in the Age of AI"

Awards/Recognitions

UTM Dean's Merit Award. Summer 2021, 2022, 2024, and 2025. MCS Department, University of Toronto Mississauga.
Outstanding Faculty Guidance & Support Award. May 2021. UofT Student Life. See video.

Service Appointments and Positions

Track Chair for Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence (2025 - Present)
Co-Chair for ACM's SIGMOD/PODS' DataEd (2024 - Present)
Faculty Advisor for WiSC: Women in Science & Computing (2019 - Present)
Program Committee for ACM's SIGMOD/PODS' DataEd (2022 - 2024)
Guest Editor for Springer's Education and Information Technology Special Issue (2022 - 2023)
Faculty Advisor for UTM's CSSC: Computer Science Student Community (formerly, Hacklab) (2020 - 2023)
Co-Chief Editor for the FYMSiC Newsletter (2019 - 2022)

Research Groups

COmputational Research and Education (CORE) Lab at the University of Toronto
CS Education Research Group at the University of Toronto
Former: Indoor Positioning & Computer Vision Research Group at the University of Toronto
Former: Advanced Optimization Research Laboratory (AdvOL) at McMaster University

A list of current and former research students can be found here.

Technology Quotes

"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."
- Edsger Dijkstra

"Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming."
- John Carmack

"Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
- Edsger Dijkstra

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