Ildar Akhmetov, PhD

Area of Study / Keywords

CS education software engineering large language models

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About

I am a Lecturer in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Alberta and a Visiting Scientist at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University. Before rejoining the department, I taught at Northeastern University in Vancouver.

I serve as Vice President of the Western Canadian Computing Education Society, which organizes the annual WCCCE conference.

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Research

My research is in computing education and empirical software engineering. On the education side, I study how to teach programming at scale — how large introductory courses and their teaching-assistant teams are organized, and how assessment and curricula should adapt as generative AI changes what beginning programmers need to learn. On the software engineering side, I study how large language models can support development work. Much of my research is done in collaboration with undergraduate students.

CMPUT 191 - Introduction to Data Science

Introduction to data acquisition, basic data manipulation (cleaning, outlier detection), analysis (regression, clustering, classification), basic statistics and machine learning tools, information visualization to communicate information from data. Prerequisite: Math 30-1 or 30-2. This course cannot be taken for credit if credit has been obtained in CMPUT 174, 175, 195, 274, 275, or ENCMP 100.

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Browse more courses taught by Ildar Akhmetov

Ludek Kucera, Ildar Akhmetov, Cruz Izu, Olufisayo Omojokun

2025 October; 10.1145/3736251.3754332

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Ildar Akhmetov, Mirjana Prpa

2025 February; 10.1145/3641555.3705250

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Logan W. Schmidt, Caitlin J. Kidder, Ildar Akhmetov, Megan Bebis, Alan C. Jamieson, Albert Lionelle, Sarah Maravetz, Sami Rollins, Ethan Selinger

2025 February; 10.1145/3641554.3701928

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Mohayeminul Islam, Ajay Kumar Jha, Ildar Akhmetov, Sarah Nadi

Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering. 2024 July; 10.1145/3643731

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Ildar Akhmetov, Sadaf Ahmed, Kezziah Ayuno

2024 March; 10.1145/3626252.3630871

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• 256 Tips for Junior Devs — video series for beginning programmers
• GitHub
• Google Scholar