publications | Caryn Thiên Ngân Tran

2026

AAAI Workshop

Max Kanwal^* and Caryn Tran^*

In AAAI-26 Workshop on Machine Ethics: from formal methods to emergent machine ethics, Singapore, Jan 2026

@inproceedings{kanwal2026constructive,
  publication_sort = {2026-02},
  title = {Constructive Alignment},
  author = {Kanwal, Max and Tran, Caryn},
  booktitle = {AAAI-26 Workshop on Machine Ethics: from formal methods to emergent machine ethics},
  location = {Singapore},
  month = jan,
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4189/paper1.pdf},
  year = {2026},
}

AAAI Workshop

Workshop Bounded Morality

Max Kanwal^*, Caryn Tran^*, and Patrick Mineault

In AAAI-26 Workshop on Machine Ethics: from formal methods to emergent machine ethics, Singapore, Jan 2026

Bib

@inproceedings{kanwal2026bounded,
  publication_sort = {2026-01},
  title = {Bounded Morality},
  author = {Kanwal, Max and Tran, Caryn and Mineault, Patrick},
  booktitle = {AAAI-26 Workshop on Machine Ethics: from formal methods to emergent machine ethics},
  location = {Singapore},
  month = jan,
  url = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-4189/paper2.pdf},
  year = {2026},
}

CHI

Conference 🏆 Best Paper 🏆 Starting From Scratch Again and Again: Tracing the Origins of High Schoolers’ Negative Perceptions of Block-Based Programming

Caryn Tran, Kristin Fasiang^*, Max Kanwal^*, and Eleanor O’Rourke

In Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2026

Bib

Best Paper Award

@inproceedings{tran2026starting,
  publication_sort = {2026-03},
  title = {Starting From Scratch Again and Again: Tracing the Origins of High Schoolers' Negative Perceptions of Block-Based Programming},
  author = {Tran, Caryn and Fasiang, Kristin and Kanwal, Max and O'Rourke, Eleanor},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
  pages = {1--17},
  doi = {10.1145/3772318.3791825},
  year = {2026},
}

2025

ICER

Conference Exploring Student-Perceived Dimensions of Authenticity in High School Computer Science

Caryn Tran, Max Kanwal, Kristin Fasiang, and Eleanor O’Rourke

In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V. 1, 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{tran2025exploring,
  publication_sort = {2025-02},
  title = {Exploring Student-Perceived Dimensions of Authenticity in High School Computer Science},
  author = {Tran, Caryn and Kanwal, Max and Fasiang, Kristin and O'Rourke, Eleanor},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research V. 1},
  pages = {93--108},
  doi = {10.1145/3702652.3744229},
  year = {2025},
}

ICML Workshop

Workshop Measuring Memorization and Generalization in Forecasting Models via Structured Perturbations of Chaotic Systems

Max Kanwal and Caryn Tran

In ICML 2025 Workshop on Methods and Opportunities at Small Scale, 2025

Bib

@inproceedings{kanwal2025measuring,
  publication_sort = {2025-01},
  title = {Measuring Memorization and Generalization in Forecasting Models via Structured Perturbations of Chaotic Systems},
  author = {Kanwal, Max and Tran, Caryn},
  booktitle = {ICML 2025 Workshop on Methods and Opportunities at Small Scale},
  url = {https://openreview.net/pdf?id=DHo0eqNkvm},
  year = {2025},
}

2023

NeurIPS

Conference Dynadojo: An Extensible Platform for Benchmarking Scaling in Dynamical System Identification

Logan M Bhamidipaty^*, Tommy Bruzzese^*, Caryn Tran^*, Rami Ratl Mrad, and Maxinder S Kanwal

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2023

Bib

@article{bhamidipaty2023dynadojo,
  publication_sort = {2023-02},
  title = {Dynadojo: An Extensible Platform for Benchmarking Scaling in Dynamical System Identification},
  author = {Bhamidipaty, Logan M and Bruzzese, Tommy and Tran, Caryn and Ratl Mrad, Rami and Kanwal, Maxinder S},
  journal = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  volume = {36},
  pages = {15519--15530},
  url = {https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/file/32093649cbbcff773d9a991d8c30a7fe-Paper-Datasets_and_Benchmarks.pdf},
  year = {2023},
}

ICER

Poster Understanding Novices’ Perceptions of “Authentic” Programming

Caryn Tran and Eleanor O’Rourke

In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research-Volume 2, 2023

Bib

@inproceedings{tran2023understanding,
  publication_sort = {2023-01},
  title = {Understanding Novices’ Perceptions of “Authentic” Programming},
  author = {Tran, Caryn and O'Rourke, Eleanor},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Conference on International Computing Education Research-Volume 2},
  pages = {37--38},
  doi = {10.1145/3568812.3603492},
  year = {2023},
}

2022

Lambert

Poster Investigating the Negative Perceptions of Blocks-Based Programming

Caryn Tran, Kristin Fasiang, and Eleanor O’Rourke

In Lambert Conference on the Future of Human-Computer Interaction + Design, Northwestern University, Oct 2022

Bib

@inproceedings{tran2022blocksbased,
  publication_sort = {2022-01},
  title = {Investigating the Negative Perceptions of Blocks-Based Programming},
  author = {Tran, Caryn and Fasiang, Kristin and O'Rourke, Eleanor},
  booktitle = {Lambert Conference on the Future of Human-Computer Interaction + Design},
  location = {Northwestern University},
  month = oct,
  year = {2022},
}

2020

IEEE Access

Journal Blind Interactive Learning of Modulation Schemes: Multi-Agent Cooperation Without Co-Design

Anant Sahai^*, Joshua Sanz^*, Vignesh Subramanian^*, Caryn Tran^*, and Kailas Vodrahalli^*

IEEE Access, 2020

Bib

@article{sahai2020blind,
  publication_sort = {2020-01},
  title = {Blind Interactive Learning of Modulation Schemes: Multi-Agent Cooperation Without Co-Design},
  author = {Sahai, Anant and Sanz, Joshua and Subramanian, Vignesh and Tran, Caryn and Vodrahalli, Kailas},
  journal = {IEEE Access},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {63790--63820},
  year = {2020},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2984218},
}

2019

arXiv

Preprint Learning to Communicate in a Noisy Environment

Anant Sahai^*, Joshua Sanz^*, Vignesh Subramanian^*, Caryn Tran^*, and Kailas Vodrahalli^*

arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09630, 2019

Bib

@article{sahai2019learningnoise,
  publication_sort = {2019-01},
  title = {Learning to Communicate in a Noisy Environment},
  author = {Sahai, Anant and Sanz, Joshua and Subramanian, Vignesh and Tran, Caryn and Vodrahalli, Kailas},
  journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.09630},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.09630},
  year = {2019}
}

Allerton

Conference Learning to Communicate with Limited Co-Design

Anant Sahai^*, Joshua Sanz^*, Vignesh Subramanian^*, Caryn Tran^*, and Kailas Vodrahalli^*

In 2019 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, 2019

Bib

@inproceedings{sahai2019learning,
  publication_sort = {2019-02},
  title = {Learning to Communicate with Limited Co-Design},
  author = {Sahai, Anant and Sanz, Joshua and Subramanian, Vignesh and Tran, Caryn and Vodrahalli, Kailas},
  booktitle = {2019 57th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing},
  doi = {10.1109/ALLERTON.2019.8919749},
  year = {2019},
  organization = {IEEE}
}

Thesis Effect of Model Dissimilarity on Learning to Communicate in a Wireless Setting with Limited Information

Caryn Tran

University of California, Berkeley, 2019

M.S. thesis, EECS Department

Bib

@mastersthesis{tran2019effect,
  publication_sort = {2019-01},
  title = {Effect of Model Dissimilarity on Learning to Communicate in a Wireless Setting with Limited Information},
  author = {Tran, Caryn},
  school = {University of California, Berkeley},
  year = {2019},
  note = {M.S. thesis, EECS Department}
}