November 25-28, 2025

AI-Driven Software Engineering Summit
for Fostering Next-Generation Researchers

AI-driven SE summit concluded successfully with 44 participants.

We sincerely thank everyone who joined this event.

Best Poster Awards

A Large Scale Comparison for Automating DL Bug Classification

Fumika Hoshi (Waseda University), Masanari Kondo (Kyushu University), Weitao Pan (Waseda University), Hironori Washizaki (Waseda University), Naoyasu Ubayashi (Waseda University)

Distinguished Poster Awards

AI-oriented Programming Language: Proposal for Reconstructing Ecosystems for AI

Kazuma Yamasaki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kazumasa Shimari (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kenichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

Call For Participants

The AI-Driven SE Summit 2025 aims to foster next-generation researchers, particularly focusing on students and young researchers who will lead the future. The summit consists of two stages: First Stage: Features talks by invited speakers, providing valuable insights and knowledge from leading experts in the field. Students also give poster presentations. Second Stage: Implements a "Researchathon" where invited speakers and young researchers serve as mentors. Participants will form small groups centered around mentors to conduct collaborative research activities. The summit's three main goals are:
(1) Create a platform for young researchers to discuss research with their peers
(2) Explore opportunities for new collaborative research
(3) Build new researcher networks This summit provides a unique opportunity for emerging researchers to engage in meaningful discussions, develop new collaborations, and expand their professional networks in the field of AI-driven software engineering.

Program

Overall Schedule

Date Program Description
November 25, 2025 First Stage Invited Talks and Research Presentations
November 26-28, 2025 Second Stage Researchathons

First Stage - November 25, 2025

Time Session Details
13:00-13:30 Registration Welcome
13:30-13:45 Opening Ceremony Summit Overview
13:45-14:15 Invited Talk 1 Towards Practical AI-Driven Bug Localization by Dr. Mahmoud Alfadel
Chair: Youmei Fan
14:15-14:45 Coffee Break Networking
14:45-15:15 Invited Talk 2 Empirical insights into AI-Driven Software Engineering: Practices and community perspectives to enhance software quality by Dr. Gema Rodríguez-Pérez
Chair: Kazumasa Shimari
15:15-15:45 Coffee Break Networking
15:45-16:15 Invited Talk 3 Quality Assurance Practices for Video Game by Dr. Nimmi Weeraddana
Chair: Masanari Kondo
16:15-16:45 Coffee Break Networking
16:45-17:45 Poster Session Interactive Poster Presentations

Second Stage - November 26-28, 2025

Date Time Session Details
November 26 09:00-12:00 Moving Move to the Summit Venue
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break Not included. Please have a lunch by yourself
13:00-13:30 Opening Welcome Remarks
13:30-15:00 Researchathon 1 Proposal Making
15:00-15:30 Break Networking
15:30-17:00 Researchathon 2 Proposal Making
17:00-18:00 Break Networking
18:00-20:00 Dinner and Break Reception
20:00-22:00 Night Session Night Session
November 27 09:30-10:30 Progress Report Report Current Status
10:30-12:00 Researchathon 3 Data Analysis
12:00-13:00 Lunch Break Not included. Please have a lunch by yourself
13:00-14:00 Researchathon 4 Data Analysis
14:30-17:00 Walking and Free Discussion Discussion
17:00-20:00 Dinner and Break Unofficial Dinner (Additional registration is required)
20:00-22:00 Night Session Night Session
November 28 09:30-11:00 Researchathon 5 Report making
11:00-12:30 Presentations Team Presentations
12:30-13:00 Closing Ceremony Final Remarks

Speakers

Dr. Mahmoud Alfadel

Dr. Mahmoud Alfadel

Invited Speaker

Biography:

Dr. Mahmoud Alfadel is an Assistant Professor of Software Engineering at the University of Calgary, Canada, whose research lies at the intersection of software engineering and artificial intelligence. His work focuses on leveraging machine learning, program analysis, and large language models to improve software quality, automate maintenance, and enhance developer productivity. He has published in premier venues such as ICSE, ASE, and TSE, with recent studies on AI-assisted vulnerability and bug detection and build-system evolution.

Presentation Title:

Towards Practical AI-Driven Bug Localization

Dr. Gema Rodríguez-Pérez

Dr. Gema Rodríguez-Pérez

Invited Speaker

Biography:

Dr. Gema Rodríguez-Pérez is an Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia, specializing in empirical software engineering and mining open-source repositories to create large datasets. Her research combines quantitative and qualitative methods to address both technical and social challenges in software development. On the technical side, she investigates bug localization and prediction to improve software quality and support quality assurance teams in allocating resources efficiently. On the social side, she examines collaborative software development, with a focus on diversity and inclusion.

Presentation Title:

Empirical insights into AI-Driven Software Engineering: Practices and community perspectives to enhance software quality

Dr. Nimmi Weeraddana

Dr. Nimmi Weeraddana

Invited Speaker

Biography:

Dr. Nimmi Weeraddana is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, specializing in mining software repositories and developing tools to support software development teams. Her recent work focuses on optimizing continuous integration pipelines, improving developer well-being, and advancing quality assurance in video game development. She has also applied her research in industry, contributing to quality assurance practices at video game development companies such as Ubisoft.

Presentation Title:

Quality Assurance Practices for Video Game

Registration

Requirements for First Stage

November 25, 2025

No specific requirements. Open to all interested participants including students, researchers, and industry professionals. Poster presentations are optional. If you choose to present, your name and presentation title will be published on this website.

What you have to prepare?

  • Research presentation materials (poster) if presenting

Requirements for Second Stage

November 26-28, 2025

This session is open to doctoral students, undergraduate/master course students planning to pursue a doctoral degree, and early-career researchers (received their PhD within the past 10 years) whose research is in relevant fields. As it involves a Researchathon, participants must be able to define research themes, review related literature, set research questions, and conduct initial analyses.

What you have to prepare?

  • Laptop with development environment

Registration Fees

First Stage

¥0

for students/SIGSE members

¥1,000

for non-members

November 25, 2025

  • ✓ Invited talk sessions
  • ✓ Student Poster session
  • ✓ Coffee Breaks

Second Stage

¥5,000

November 26-28, 2025

  • ✓ Researchathons
  • ✓ Coffee Breaks
    • ⚠️ 2 nights Accomodations are not included.
    ⚠️ Lunch and Dinner are not included.
    ⚠️ Breakfast (27th and 28th), coffee, and snacks are included.
    ⚠️ Need to move the venue by yourself.

Second Stage Accommodation
(Hill Hotel Sunpia Iga)

November 26-28, 2025

  • Private room without window ¥15,300 / 2 nights
  • Private room with window ¥17,300 / 2 nights
  • Twin room without window ¥13,000 / 2 nights
  • Twin room with window ¥14,200 / 2 nights
⚠️ Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner are not included.
⚠️ Due to the nature of the summit, we strongly recommend staying at this hotel.
⚠️ For applicants who request accommodation, rooms will be randomly assigned by the organizers (with or without windows).
⚠️ Since the number of rooms is limited, not all applicants can be accommodated. If you are not allocated a room, please arrange your own accommodation.

Registration Form

Registration Deadlines

First Stage

November 24, 2025


Attendees who give poster presentations:

November 11, 2025

Second Stage

With accommodation provided by organizers:

October 24, 2025

Self-arranged accommodation:

November 14, 2025

Please use the Google Form below to register for the summit.

https://forms.gle/e4A55PXSbdjQrheT6

Note: Registration confirmation and payment instructions (for Second Stage) will be sent to your email address. Please ensure your email address is correct when filling out the form.

Poster Presentations

1. Detecting Edge Cases in LLM-Generated Code

Hidetake Tanaka (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Haruto Tanaka (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kazumasa Shimari (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kenichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

2. From Eye Movements to Distributed Representations for Program Comprehension

Haruhiko Yoshioka (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kazumasa Shimari (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Hidetake Uwano (National Institute of Technology, Nara College), Kenichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

3. Investigating the Relationship Between Errors and Programming Skill in an Online Judge System

Shota Shimizu (Ritsumeikan University), Erina Makihara (Ritsumeikan University), Norihiro Yoshida (Ritsumeikan University), Katsuro Inoue (Ritsumeikan University)

4. Establishing Token-Level Bug Localization with a Multi-Stage LLM Agent

Haoming Huang (Institute of Science Tokyo), Shinpei Hayashi (Institute of Science Tokyo)

5. A Large Scale Comparison for Automating DL Bug Classification

Fumika Hoshi (Waseda University), Masanari Kondo (Kyushu University), Weitao Pan (Waseda University), Hironori Washizaki (Waseda University), Naoyasu Ubayashi (Waseda University)

6. How Does Context Impact AI-Generated Pull Request Descriptions? An Empirical Study

Ayobami Joseph (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Youmei Fan (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Raula Gaikovina Kula (The University of Osaka), Kenichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

7. An empirical study on code clones across and within microservices

Yuki Ota (Ritsumeikan University), Norihiro Yoshida (Ritsumeikan University), Eunjong Choi (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Erina Makihara (Ritsumeikan University), Katsuro Inoue (Ritsumeikan University)

8. BiFuzz: A Two-Stage Fuzzing Tool for Open-World Video Games

Yusaku Kato (Ritsumeikan University), Norihiro Yoshida (Ritsumeikan University), Erina Makihara (Ritsumeikan University), Katsuro Inoue (Ritsumeikan University)

9. An Analysis of Maintenance Activities by Generative AI Adopters on GitHub

Rikuto Tsuchida (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kazumasa Shimari (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Gema Rodríguez-Pérez (University of British Columbia), Raula Gaikovina Kula（The University of Osaka）, Kenichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

10. Using LLMs for Code-to-Doc for Fixing Bugs

Indira Febriyani (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Youmei Fan (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kazumasa Shimari (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kenichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Raula Gaikovina Kula (The University of Osaka)

11. A preliminary study on migration guide usage

Takahiro Monno (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kazumasa Shimari (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Tetsuya Kanda (Notre Dame Seishin University), Kazuma Yamasaki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kenichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

12. AI-oriented Programming Language: Proposal for Reconstructing Ecosystems for AI

Kazuma Yamasaki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kazumasa Shimari (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kenichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

13. Mining GitHub for SE: A Preliminary Systematic Literature Review

Pongchai Jaisri (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Raula Gaikovina Kula (The University of Osaka), Youmei Fan (Nara Institute of Science and Technology), Kenichi Matsumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology)

Organization

General Chair

Masanari Kondo

Masanari Kondo

Kyushu University

Kazumasa Shimari

Kazumasa Shimari

NAIST

Youmei Fan

Youmei Fan

NAIST

Student Volunteer

Kazuma Yamasaki

Kazuma Yamasaki

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Hidetake Tanaka

Hidetake Tanaka

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Haruhiko Yoshioka

Haruhiko Yoshioka

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Taiki Wakamatsu

Taiki Wakamatsu

Kyushu University

Steering Committee

Yasutaka Kamei

Yasutaka Kamei

Kyushu University

Akinori Ihara

Akinori Ihara

Wakayama University

Yutaro Kashiwa

Yutaro Kashiwa

Nara Institute of Science and Technology

Erina Makihara

Erina Makihara

Ritsumeikan University

Sponsors

Adopting Sustainable Partnerships for Innovative Research Ecosystem (ASPIRE)
Japan Science and Technology Agency

Information Processing Society of Japan
Special Interest Group of Software Engineering

Venue

First Stage - November 25, 2025

Todaiji

Address: Todaiji Culture Center, 100 Suimon-cho, Nara-shi, Nara, 630-8208, Japan

Faculty: Todaiji Cultural Center

Room: Sho Hall (Basement)

Second Stage - November 26-28, 2025

Hill Hotel Sunpia Iga

Address: 2756-104 Saimyoji, Iga-shi, Mie, 518-0809, Japan

Website: https://www.hh-sunpia-iga.co.jp/