Liudmila Piatnitckaia

Liudmila (or Mika) is a learning scientist and cognitive psychologist working at the intersection of education, psychology and artificial intelligence. She holds a Master degree in Learning Sciences from Université Paris Cité and an earlier Master in Clinical Psychology from Lomonosov Moscow State University, and is completing her doctorate at Université Paris Cité.
Her research investigates how students interact with artificial intelligence, and what happens to genuine learning when they offload their thinking onto it. She has presented at international conferences including ICLS, ITiCSE and EDULEARN.
Before her doctorate, Mika led a team that built educational products for teachers at Yandex, and worked with UNESCO’s education sector, where she designed a learning platform and pedagogical content for francophone Africa. Mika is an experienced public speaker, she is fond of science communication, and has won several Science Slams (competitions where researchers present their work to a general audience in short, engaging talks judged by public vote).
Mika joined the Paris campus in 2024 as a fellow and researcher.

• Cognitive offloading and human-AI interaction in learning
• The effects of AI on student motivation and engagement
• Evidence-based pedagogy in higher education

• PSYC211 The Science of Resilience: Mental Health, Stress, and Wellbeing (health and positive psychology)
• PL2005 Research Skills: Literature Skills

• Bago, B., Kovacs, M., Protzko, J., … Piatnitckaia, L., … & Aczel, B. (2022). Situational factors shape moral judgements in the trolley dilemma in Eastern, Southern and Western countries in a culturally diverse sample. Nature Human Behaviour, 6(6), 880–895.
• Piatnitckaia, L., Corneloup, V., Bühler, B., Terzimehić, N., Kasneci, E., & Zenasni, F. (2026). Patterns of student cognitive offloading to AI in higher education. (Under review)
• Piatnitckaia, L., Corneloup, V., & Zenasni, F. (2025). What tasks do learners delegate to ChatGPT? Analysis of student queries. Proc. 19th ICLS 2025, Helsinki.
• Zakharov, I., Piatnitckaia, L., Birillo, A., Sergeyuk, A., & Izadi, M. (2025). When people come first: A human-centered approach to computer science education. Proc. 30th ACM ITiCSE 2025, 711–712.
• Piatnitckaia, L., Corneloup, V., & Zenasni, F. (2024). Developing an AI-powered assistant for enhanced learning: A multi-phase research project at a private higher education institution. EDULEARN24 Proc., Palma, 6753–6757.
• Piatnitckaia, L., & Corneloup, V. (2024). Revolution or hype? Exploring the opportunities and challenges of integrating generative AI tools in education through the example of ChatGPT. EDULEARN24 Proc., Palma, 6879–6887.
• Guley, O., Piatnitckaia, L., Corneloup, V., Gallon, B., & Zenasni, F. (2023). Humanitarian aid project as a source of building a community of practice in the educational institution. Proc. 17th ICLS 2023.