Hello, I'm

Bingyixuan
(Mason) Dong

Master’s student in Computer Science · Cornell University

I’m a master’s student at Cornell, working with Prof. René F. Kizilcec. I’m interested in how people use, rely on, and come to trust large language models.

Previously I was at UW–Madison, where I worked with Prof. Bilge Mutlu.

LLM Reliance & Trust Human–AI Collaboration AI in Education HCI
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CV available on request.

Mason Dong
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Peer-reviewed

Publications

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    What Do Students Ask LLM Programming Assistants For? A Large-Scale Problem-Level Analysis of Student Interactions

    Yiyin Shen, Bingyixuan Dong, Louis Oliphant, Matthew Berland, Meenakshi Syamkumar, and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau.

    Proceedings of the 58th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE TS 2027).

    Full paper, to appear

Personal & side projects

Projects

01
In progress Personal project

AI Rabbit

A personal project: a rabbit with an AI built into it.

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AI Full Stack Education

MathVisual

AI-Generated Math Animations

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ReactFastAPIPostgreSQL

In brief

Background

Education

  • Cornell University Master of Engineering in Computer Science Expected May 2027
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison B.S. in Computer Sciences (Honors) and Data Science May 2026

Research

  • LearnLab, Carnegie Mellon University Summer Researcher Summer 2026
  • Honors thesis research, UW–Madison Advisor: Prof. Bilge Mutlu 2025 – 2026
  • MadCSE Lab, UW–Madison Undergraduate Research Assistant 2025 – 2026
  • MAGIC Lab, UW–Madison Undergraduate Research Assistant 2025 – 2026
  • People and Robots Laboratory, UW–Madison Undergraduate Research Assistant 2025

Teaching & work

  • Peer Mentor, CS 639 UW–Madison Department of Computer Sciences Spring 2024, Spring 2025
  • Software Engineering Intern CrissCross Express Summers 2023 & 2024
  • Advisory Board Member UW–Madison University Housing 2023 – 2024

Honors

  • Dean’s List University of Wisconsin–Madison 2024
  • President’s Silver Volunteer Service Award 2022

Contact

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Open to research collaborations and new projects. My CV is available on request — just email me.

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