Education Forum

The ICDM 2026 Education Forum brings together educators, researchers, and practitioners for an interactive workshop and an Education Panel. The forum covers innovative pedagogy, experiential learning, curriculum development, responsible AI education, and emerging technologies for data mining and artificial intelligence education.

Program

TimeTopicPresenter
10:10–10:13Opening remarks
10:13–11:00KeynoteProf. Wei Wang · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
11:00–12:10Education Workshop: Session 1
11:00–11:10S37205 · Ownership Tracing in AI Tutoring: Correcting Apparent Mastery with Source-of-Practice EvidenceSichao Li, Weiyuan Wang, Sai Ma, Ye Wei, and Zhengyi Yang
11:10–11:20S37219 · COGENT: An Evidence-Driven Multi-Agent Tutoring System for Goal-Oriented AI EducationJing Dong, Shuyan Chen, Jiani Lv, Zheng Li, Anan Du, Fu Li, and Shuchao Pang
11:20–11:30S37217 · Loop SQLing: A Closed-Loop Multi-Agent Pedagogical Framework for SQL Project PracticeLongfei Yu, Dejun Teng, and Zhaohui Peng
11:30–11:40S37223 · Understanding Vibe Coding in University Programming EducationYanshan Zeng, Guozheng Li, and Chi Harold Liu
11:40–11:50S37215 · Human-GenAI Collaborative Pedagogy and Learning Analytics for HPC Education with Industrial Software PracticeNan Hu, Yiyang Chen, Ruihui Li, Zhuo Tang, and Kenli Li
11:50–12:00S37213 · Sustaining Project-Based Learning at Scale: A Three-Tier Feedback Architecture with Student Jury and Mentor PipelineYana Demyanenko, Pavel Oganesyan, Ilia Loshkarev, Andrey Nikolaev, Ekaterina Dots, and Vladislav Krylov
12:00–12:10S37218 · Quantitative Competency Referential Alignment for Curriculum-Labor Market AnalysisAmine Boulahmel and Gregory Smits
13:30–14:30Education Workshop: Session 2
13:30–13:40S37214 · LiquidKT: Tracking the Continuous Dynamics of Knowledge Acquisition and Memory DecayFeng Ding, Xiaobo Liu, Mingliang Hou, and Shuo Yu
13:40–13:50S37211 · Interpretable Fuzzy Granular-Ball Modeling for Trustworthy Early Identification of At-Risk StudentsHaoran Zhang
13:50–14:00S37220 · Cold-Start Aware Advisor Recommendation for Early Undergraduate Research: Profile-Gated Multi-Route Retrieval and RerankingXizhi Wang and Qingyun Sun
14:00–14:10S37207 · Explainable Educational Data Mining of Gen-Z Leadership Expectations: Predicting Workplace Engagement Decisions from Student Perceptions of Managerial Soft SkillsAgnieszka Rzepka, Anna Jasińska-Biliczak, Katarzyna Hys, Anna Kowalczyk-Kroenke, Adam Kiersztyn, and Jakub Chromiak
14:10–14:20S37206 · AI-Empowered Teaching Reform in Police Education: A Workflow-Guided Case Tutor Exemplified in Economic Crime InvestigationYang Yang and Bo Ren
14:20–14:30Discussion
14:30–15:30Education Workshop / Education PanelXianping Tao, Libing Wu, Bohan Li, Lexi Xu, and Tao Li

Forum Chairs

Portrait of Haipeng Dai

Haipeng Dai

Professor

Nanjing University, China

Portrait of Bing Li

Bing Li

Professor

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China

Portrait of Zhe Xue

Zhe Xue

Professor

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Speakers

Keynote

Portrait of Wei Wang

Wei Wang

Professor; Associate Dean of Information Hub

Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)

Research interests: Database–AI Integration; Machine Learning; AI for Science; AI for Education

Panel

Portrait of Xianping Tao

Xianping Tao

Second-level Professor; Doctoral Supervisor

Nanjing University, China

Research interests: Intelligent Software Engineering; Crowd Intelligence Cognition; Pervasive Computing

Portrait of Libing Wu

Libing Wu

Professor

Wuhan University, China

Research interests: Network Security; Internet of Things

Portrait of Bohan Li

Bohan Li

Dr.

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China

Research interests: Big Data; Recommender Systems; LLM

Portrait of Lexi Xu

Lexi Xu

Professor Level Senior Engineer / Directorial Researcher

China Unicom Research Institute

Research interests: Telecom Big Data; Mobile Network Operation and Optimization; Radio Resource Management; Standardization in CCSA/ITU/IEEE/ETSI/3GPP/TMF

Portrait of Tao Li

Tao Li

Director

China Telecom Cloud Technology

Research interests: AI4DB (AI for Databases)