Yael Gertner

Books

• Baillargeon, R., Li, J. Gertner, Y. & Wu, D. (2011). How do infants reason about physical events? In U. Goswami (Ed), The Wiley Blackwell handbook of childhood cognitive development, second edition (pp 11-48). Oxford: Blackwell.

Articles in Journals

• Lin, Y., Li, J., Gertner, Y., Ng, W., Fisher, C., Baillargeon, R. (2021). How do the object-file and physical-reasoning systems interact? Evidence from priming effects with object arrays or novel labels. Cognitive Psychology, Jan 6, 125:101368.
• Scott, R., Gertner, Y. & Fisher, C. (2018). Not all subjects are agents: Transitivity and meaning in early language comprehension. Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 24, 153-176.
• Gertner, Y. & Fisher, C. (2012). Predicted Errors In Children's Early Sentence Compre- hension. Cognition, 124, 85-94.
• Baillargeon, R., Stevans, M., Wu, D., Gertner, Y, Setoh P, Kitteridge, A & Bernard, A., (2012) Object individuation and physical reasoning in infancy: An integrative account. Language Learning and Development, 8, 4-46.
• Fisher, C., Gertner, Y., Scott, R. M., & Yuan, S. (2010). Syntactic bootstrapping. Invited paper in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 1, 143-149.
• Gertner, Y., (2008). Book review of Kathy Hirsh-Pasek & Roberta M. Golinko (eds), Action Meets Word. How Children Learn Verbs. Oxford University Press, 2006. Journal of Child Language, 35, 727-733.
• Gertner, Y., Fisher, C., & Eisengart, J. (2006). Learning Words and Rules: Abstract Knowledge of Word Order in Early Sentence Comprehension. Psychological Science, 17, 684-691.
• Gennaro, R., Gertner, Y., Katz, J., & Trevisan, L. (2005). Bounds on the Eciency of Generic Cryptographic Constructions. SIAM Journal on Computing, 35(1), 217-246.
• Gertner, Y., Ishai, Y., Kushilevitz, E., & Malkin, T. (2000). Protecting Data Privacy in Private Information Retrieval Schemes. Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), 60(3), 592-629. (invited paper).

Conference Articles

• Poulsen, S., Gertner, Y., Chen, H., Cosman, B., West, M. & Herman, G.L.(2024) Disentangling the Learning Gains from Reading a Book Chapter and Completing Proof Blocks Problems. Proc. of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.
• Isenegger, K., Fowler, M., Gertner, Y., Hegeman-Davis, R. & Pitt, L. (2024). Designing and Piloting a High School CS+X Topics Course. Proc. of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.
• Liu, J., Poulsen, S., Chen, H., Williams, G., Gertner, Y. & Franklin, D. (2024). Teaching Algorithm Design: A Literature Review. Proc. of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.
• George, K., Fowler, M., Ojha, V., Fong, M., Isenegger, K., Perdriau, C., Saffar-Perez, M., Gertner, Y. and Lewis, C. (2024). Leveraging Kotter's 8 Stage Model of Organizational Change to Understand Broadening Participation in Computing. Proc. of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.
• Gertner, Y., Alvarez, J., Cosman, B., & Amos, J. (2024). Work in Progress: How do students spend their time studying in a CS Discrete Math course? Proc. of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education.
• Amos, J. Gertner, Y., Alvarez, J., Cosman, B., (2024). WIP: Exploring Disposition in a Foundational Conservation Principles of Bioengineering Course. Proc. of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education.
• Gertner, Y., Alvarez, J., Cosman, B., & Amos, J. (2023). Identifying Student Profiles Related to Success in Discrete Math CS Courses. Proc. of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education.
• Erickson, J., Xia, J., Robson, E.W., Do, T., Glickman, A., Jia, Z., Jin, E., Lee, J., Lin, P., Pan, S., Ruggerio, S., Sakurayama, T., Yin, A., Gertner, Y., and Solomon, B.. (2023). Auto-graded scaffolding exercises for theoretical computer science. Proc. of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education.
• Alvarez, J., Gertner, Y., Cosman, B., & Amos, J., (2023). Identifying Student Profiles Related to Success in an Analog Signal Processing course. Proc. of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education.
• Poulsen, S., Gertner, Y., Cosman, B., West, M., & Herman, G.. (2023). Efficiency of Learning from Proof Blocks versus writing Proofs. Proc. of the ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, pages 472-478.
• Gertner, Y., Amos, J., Alvarez, J., & Cosman, B. (2022). Understanding student self-regulated behaviors in introductory problem solving computing and engineering classes. Proc. of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education.
• Williams, T., Gertner, Y., Harris, J., Gulley, A., Amato, N., & Viswanathan, M. (2022). A new graduate certificate to broaden participation in computing. Proc. of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education..
• Connor, M., Gertner, Y., Fisher, C., & Roth, D. (2010). Starting from scratch in Semantic Role Labeling. Proc. of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pages 989-998.
• Connor, M., Gertner, Y., Fisher, C., & Roth, D. (2009). Minimally Supervised Model of Early Language Acquisition. Proc. of the Annual Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pages 84-92.
• Connor, M., Gertner, Y., Fisher, C., & Roth, D. (2008). Baby SRL: Modeling Early Language Acquisition. Proc. of the Annual Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), pages 81-88.
• Gertner, Y., Malkin, Y., & Myers, S. (2007) The Relationship Among Different Notions of Public Key Encryption. Proc. of the Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC), pages 434-455.
• Gennaro, R., Gertner, Y., & Katz, J. (2003) Lower Bounds on the Efficiency of Encryption and Digital Signature Schemes. Proc. of the ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), pages 417-425. and Digital Signature Schemes. Proc. of the ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), pages 417-425.
• Gertner, Y., Malkin, T., & Reingold, O. (2001) On the Impossibility of Basing Trapdoor Functions on Trapdoor Predicates. Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Com- puter Science (FOCS), pages 126-135.
• Gertner, Y., Kannan, S., Malkin, T., Reingold, O., & Viswanathan, M. (2000) The Relationship between Public Key Encryption and Oblivious Transfer. Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (FOCS), pages 325-335.
• Gertner, Y., Goldwasser, G., & Malkin, T. (1998) A Random Server Model for Private Infor- mation Retrieval (or Information Theoretic Private Information Retrieval Avoiding Database Replication). Proc. of the International Workshop on Randomization and Approximation Techniques in Computer Science (RANDOM), pages 200-217.
• Gertner, Y., Ishai, Y., Kushilevitz, E., & Malkin, T. (1998) Protecting Data Privacy in Private Information Retrieval Schemes. Proc. of the ACM Symposium on the Theory of Computing (STOC), pages 151-160.

Conference Presentations

• Isenegger, K. Perdriau, C,, Tabares, S., Solomon, B, Gertner, Y. (June 2024) Mentoring High School Students in Computer Science, Presented at the Illinois Computer Science Summer Teaching Workshop. Virtual.
• Isenegger, K., Fowler, M., Gertner, Y., Hegeman Davis, R., Pitt, L. (June 2023). Designing a CS+X survey course for high school students. Presented at the Illinois Computer Science Summer Teaching Workshop. Virtual.
• Gertner, Y., Hernandez, R., Li., J. Baillargeon, R. (2010, March). Language Enhances Infants' Object Representations. Presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies. Baltimore, MD.
• Gertner, Y. Connor, M., Fisher, C., Roth, D. (2009, November). Modeling Early Sentence Interpretation With Shallow Representations of Syntactic Structure. Presented at the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
• Gertner, Y., Fisher, C. (2009, April) Abstract knowledge of word order guides early sentence comprehension. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research for Child Development. Denver, CO.
• Gertner, Y., Baillargeon, R., Fisher, C., and Simons, D. (2009, April). Language Facilitates Infants' Physical Reasoning. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society of Research for Child Development. Denver, CO.
• Gertner, Y., Baillargeon, R., Marcus, G, Fisher, C., and Johnson, S. (2008, March). Tube, Container, Container: Rule Learning in 7-month-old infants. Presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies. Vancouver, Canada.
• Gertner, Y., (2007, November) Not all transitive subjects are agents: Exploring 23-month-olds' understanding of transitive sentences. Presented at the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
• Gertner, Y., and Fisher, C. (2007, April). Syntax Guides 2-year-olds' Attention to Different Aspects of Simple Motion Events. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.
• Yuan, S., Fisher, C., Gertner, Y., and Snedeker J. (2007, April). Participants are more than physical bodies: 21-month-olds Assign Relational Meaning to Novel Transitive Verbs. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.
• Gertner, Y., Baillargeon, R., Marcus, G, Fisher, C., and Johnson, S. (2007, April). Rule Learning in Infants with Non-Linguistic Stimuli. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Boston, MA.
• Gertner, Y., and Fisher, C. (2006, November). Predicted Errors In Children's Sentence Comprehension, Presented at the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
• Gertner, Y., & Fisher, C. (2005, July). Learning to make sense of sentences: The Development of Speech Processing Abilities in Children from 18 to 25 months. Presented at the International Congress For the Study of Child Language. Berlin, Germany.
• Gertner, Y. Fisher, C. (2005, July). Predicted Errors in Early Verb Learning. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Stresa, Italy.
• Gertner, Y., Baillargeon, R., & Fisher, C. (2005, April). Infant's Sensitivity to Verbal Information in Reasoning About Physical Events. Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. Atlanta, GA.
• Gertner, Y., & Fisher, C. (2004, November). How Early Does Word Order Guide Sentence Comprehension? Presented at the Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development. Boston, MA.
• Gertner, Y., & Fisher, C. (2004, March) Who's Gorping the Duck? Word Order Guides Early Sentence Comprehension. Presented at the Annual CUNY Sentence Processing Conference. College Park, MD.

Patents

• Herz, F., Gertner, Y., Martell, C., & Kannan, S. (2008). System and method for encrypting data in pictorial data. US Patent 7454020.
• Herz, F., Gertner, Y., Martell, C., & Kannan, S. (2008). System and method which employs a multi-user secure scheme utilizing shared keys. US Patent 7350069.