Design of HIMAC Coprocessor for HINOC3.0. - Jinjian Huang; Zhiliang Qiu; Weitao Pan; Jun Li; Zhikai Gao; Bing Han; Zihao Xiong; Meng Dong (ICCCS, 2021)

Ant Colony Optimization for UAV-based Intelligent Pesticide Irrigation System. - Zhikai Gao; Jie Zhu 002; Haiping Huang; Yifan Yang; Xudong Tan (CSCWD, 2021)

Automatically classifying student help requests: a multi-year analysis. - Zhikai Gao; Collin F. Lynch; Sarah Heckman; Tiffany Barnes (EDM, 2021)

Admitting you have a problem is the first step: Modeling when and why students seek help in programming assignments. - Zhikai Gao; Bradley Erickson; Yiqiao Xu; Collin F. Lynch; Sarah Heckman; Tiffany Barnes (EDM, 2022)

Who Uses Office Hours?: A Comparison of In-Person and Virtual Office Hours Utilization. - Zhikai Gao; Sarah Heckman; Collin F. Lynch (SIGCSE (1), 2022)

Building Predictive Models for CS Students Help-Seeking Behaviors with Coding Log Data. - Zhikai Gao; Collin Lynch (EDM, 2024)

Who Should I Help Next? Simulation of Office Hours Queue Scheduling Strategy in a CS2 Course. - Zhikai Gao; Gabriel Silva de Oliveira; Damilola Babalola; Collin F. Lynch; Sarah Heckman (EDM, 2024)

Educational Data Mining in Writing and Literacy Instruction. - Collin Lynch; Paul Deane; Piotr Mitros; Zhikai Gao; Damilola Babalola (EDM, 2024)

Using Survival Analysis to Model Students' Patience in Online Office Hour Queues. - Zhikai Gao; Adam M. Gaweda; Collin F. Lynch; Sarah Heckman; Damilola Babalola; Gabriel Silva de Oliveira (SIGCSE (2), 2024)

Exploring Novice Programmers' Testing Behavior: A First Step to Define Coding Struggle. - Gabriel Silva de Oliveira; Zhikai Gao; Sarah Heckman; Collin F. Lynch (SIGCSE (1), 2024)

The impact of near-peer virtual agents on computer science attitudes and collaborative dialogue. - Toni V. Earle-Randell; Joseph B. Wiggins; Yingbo Ma; Mehmet Celepkolu; Dolly Bounajim; Zhikai Gao; Julianna Martinez Ruiz; Kristy Elizabeth Boyer; Maya Israel; Collin F. Lynch; Eric N. Wiebe (Int. J. Child Comput. Interact., 2024)

Comparing Students' and Teachers' Assessments of Office Hours. - Zhikai Gao; Saminur Islam; Caleb Scott; Collin Lynch; Sarah Heckman (SIGCSE (2), 2025)

EclipseMonitor: A Real-Time Student Programming Environment Data Collection Tool. - Saminur Islam; Zhikai Gao; John Bacher; Gabriel Silva de Oliveira; Varad Patwardhan; Sarah Heckman; Collin Lynch (SIGCSE (2), 2025)

Privacy-Preserving Distributed Link Predictions Among Peers in Online Classrooms Using Federated Learning. - Anurata Prabha Hridi; Muntasir Hoq; Zhikai Gao; Collin Lynch; Rajeev Sahay; Seyyedali Hosseinalipour; Bita Akram (CoRR, 2025)