I will hopefully soon have the time to write up a summary of the cloud lab work that I did during my PhD. Before that, here is a bunch of publications, including my thesis, that talks about it in details.

• Zahid Hossain, Engin W. Bumbacher, Paulo Blikstein, Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse, "Authentic Science Inquiry Learning at Scale Enabled by an Interactive Biology Cloud Lab," Proceedings of the Fourth ACM Conference on Learning@scale. ACM, 2017. (in press)


• Zahid Hossain, Engin W. Bumbacher, Alice M. Chung, Honesty Kim, Casey Litton, Ashley D. Walter, Sachin N. Pradhan, Kemi Jona, Paulo Blikstein, Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse, "Interactive and Scalable Biology Cloud Experimentation for Scientific Inquiry and Education," Nature Biotechnology, 34(12):1293-1298, 12 2016.


• Zahid Hossain, Xiaofan Jin, Engin W. Bumbacher, Alice M. Chung, Stephen Koo, Jordan D. Shapiro, Cynthia Y. Truong, Sean Choi, Nathan D. Orloff, Paulo Blikstein, Ingmar H. Riedel-Kruse, "Interactive Cloud Experimentation for Biology: An Online Education Case Study," (Honorable Mention) Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, SIGCHI, (3681-3690), 2015.


• Ph.D Thesis: Interactive Biology Cloudlab Architecture and Applications in Large Scale Online Education