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Dr Jake Renzella

@drjake.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales

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Dr Jake Renzella @drjake.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
New pre-print alert: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05305
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Narrowing the Gap: Supervised Fine-Tuning of Open-Source LLMs as a Viable Alternative to Proprietary Models for Pedagogical Tools
Frontier Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini can decipher cryptic compiler errors for novice programmers, but their computational scale, cost, and tendency to over-assist make them pr...
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Dr Jake Renzella @drjake.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I’ll be working with Day of AI Australia and Google to build interactive GenAI experiences for Aussie school kids! Read more: blog.google/intl/en-au/f...
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Day of AI Australia selected for Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI cohort
Day of AI Australia, together with UNSW, has been selected to join the prestigious Google.org Accelerator: Generative AI cohort for 2025.Day of AI Australia is one of 20…
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Dr Jake Renzella @drjake.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Another year, another SIGCSE TS. Our paper on conversational generative AI for programming debugging: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... A BoF session delivering a session on AI Literacy for K-12, presenting our lessons learned running Day of AI. Capping it off with a visit to MIT RAISE and MIT Solve.
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Dr Jake Renzella @drjake.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Really we’re just going to extreme lengths to ensure we can keep teaching C as our students’ first language: www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/... @cyberhammond.com @litoria.bsky.social
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A new approach to an old language | Engineering - UNSW Sydney
UNSW's Debugging C Compiler (DCC) uses AI to help students learn C programming by explaining errors without fostering reliance on AI, aiming to prevent future software issues.
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Dr Jake Renzella @drjake.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
(Not quite) end of term drinks @florasalim.bsky.social
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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
Street full of parked cars in Bordeaux France, Google photo from 2008.Same location in Bordeaux photo taken by me in 2023.
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Dr Jake Renzella @drjake.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Some mid-conference hacking to pull in real-time numbers into the Debugging C Compiler website, 14 million compilations! dcc.cse.unsw.edu.au
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 21/11/2024
Putting together a starter pack of CS academics in Australia (+NZ), hit me up to be added. go.bsky.app/N5x6GLQ
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Flora Salim @florasalim.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
CSE, UNSW Sydney is hiring multiple Associate Professors (Level D, tenured) on: - Algorithms - Computer Graphics - Embedded Systems - Formal Methods - NLP - Theoretical Machine Learning - Robotics Closing 27 Jan 2025. Those wanting to know about working in Sydney and Australia do reach out 🦘🎓 URL👇
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Dr Jake Renzella @drjake.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
At Koli Calling in Finland presenting our very early work on fine-tuning Large Language Models to align them with pedagogical behaviour. These models power our compiler error explanation system: dcc.cse.unsw.edu.au Read the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... @cyberhammond.com, @litoria.bsky.social
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Fine-Tuning Large Language Models for Better Programming Error Explanations | Proceedings of the 24th Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research
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Dr Jake Renzella @drjake.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
Stoked to finally share that Google have funded our DCC + LLM research (research.google/outreach/air...) as Sasha Vassar, @litoria.bsky.social and I will design and develop pedagogically-minded LLMs to making programming more accessible. We are also launching our new homepage: dcc.cse.unsw.edu.au
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The Debugging C Compiler (DCC) - A novice-friendly C/C++ compiler
The Debugging C Compiler (DCC) - A novice-focused C compiler.
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Dr Jake Renzella @drjake.bsky.social · 03/10/2023
Happy SIGCSE notification day! Celebrating the acceptance of our paper "dcc --help: Transforming the Role of the Compiler by Generating Context-Aware Error Explanations with Large Language Models". @litoria.bsky.social @cyberhammond.com
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