About Me
Yasutaka Kamei, Dr. Eng.
Full Professor
POSL Lab. of Yasutaka Kamei
Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University
West 2-848, 744 Motooka, Nishi-ku, Fukuoka 819-0395 Japan
E-mail: kamei _at_ ait.kyushu-u.ac.jp
Tel.: +81-92-802-3728
Recent News
- [August 7, 2024] Our paper on "Developer-Defined Accelerations in Continuous Integration: A Detection Approach and Catalog of Patterns" has been accepted at the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2024)!
- [July 28, 2024] Our paper on "My Fuzzers Won’t Build: An Empirical Study of Fuzzing Build Failures" has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)! [PDF]
- [July 3, 2024] Our paper on "Large Language Models for Equivalent Mutant Detection: How Far are We?" has been accepted at the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2024)! [PDF]
- [July 2, 2024] Our paper on "An Empirical Study of Token-based Micro Commits, Empirical Software Engineering" has been accepted accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)!
- [May 30, 2024] Our paper on "Exploring the Adoption of Fuzz Testing in Open-Source Software: A Case Study of the Go Community" has been accepted at the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024)! [PDF]
- [February 15, 2024] Our paper on "Understanding the Characteristics and the Role of Visual Issue Reports?" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)! <[PDF]
- [January 1, 2024] I'm appointed as a full professor from January 1st, 2024, at Kyushu University!
- [December 17, 2023] Our paper on "TraceJIT: Evaluating the Impact of Behavioral Code Change on JIT Defect Prediction" has been accepted at the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2024)! [PDF]
- [November 30, 2023] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2025), April 27 - May 3, 2025 (Ottawa, ON, Canada).
- [October 3, 2023] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2024), October 6 - October 11, 2024 (Flagstaff, AZ, USA).
- [July 18, 2023] Our paper on "Unjustifiable Waste: An Empirical Study of Repeated Builds During Code Review" has been accepted at the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2023)!
- [July 10, 2023] Our paper on "The Human Side of Fuzzing: Challenges Faced by Developers During Fuzzing Activities" has been accepted to ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)! [PDF]
Past News
- [June 27, 2023] Our paper on "When Conversations Turn Into Work: A Taxonomy of Converted Discussions and Issues in GitHub" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)! [PDF]
- [May 2, 2023] Our paper on "More Than React: Investigating The Role of Emoji Reaction in GitHub Pull Requests" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)! [PDF]
- [March 17, 2023] I'm thrilled to announce that I'm selected as the 2023 InaRIS Fellow! The research topic is "New paradigm for software development styles based on machine-human interaction." The InaRIS Fellowship Program grants 10 million yen per year over 10 years (totaling 100 million yen). The details of InaRIS Fellowship Program is here
- [March 8, 2023] Our paper on "Understanding the Role of Images on Stack Overflow" has been accepted at the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023)! [PDF]
[[Before that]]
- [December 16, 2022] Our paper on "Towards Privacy Preserving Cross Project Defect Prediction with Federated Learning" has been accepted at the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2023)! [PDF]
- [November 11, 2022] Our paper on "PAFL: Probabilistic Automaton-based Fault Localization for Recurrent Neural Networks" has been accepted to Information and Software Technology (IST)! [PDF]
- [October 26, 2022] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on AI Engineering/Software Engineering for AI (CAIN 2023), May 15-16, 2023 (Melbourne, Australia).
- [October 11, 2022] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2023), May 15-16, 2023 (Melbourne, Australia).
- [June 9, 2022] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2023), March 21-24, 2023 (Macao, China).
- [January 18, 2022] Our paper on "An Empirical Study on Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Modern Code Review" has been accepted to Information and Software Technology (IST)! [PDF]
- [January 12, 2022] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2022), October 3 - October 7, 2022 (Limassol, Cyprus).
- [January 11, 2022] Our paper on "An Empirical Study of Issue-Link Algorithms: Which Issue-Link Algorithms Should We Use?" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)! <[PDF]
- [October 13, 2021] Our paper on "An Empirical Study on Self-Admitted Technical Debt in Dockerfiles" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)! [PDF]
- [September 30, 2021] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2023), May 14-20, 2023 (Melbourne, Australia).
- [September 28, 2021] Our paper on "Studying Donations and their Expenses in Open Source Projects: A Case Study of GitHub Projects Collecting Donations through Open Collectives" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)! [PDF]
- [July 13, 2021] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2022), March 15–18, 2022 (Hawaii).
- [June 15, 2021] Our paper on "Does Refactoring Break Tests and to What Extent?" has been accepted at the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2021)! [PDF]
- [June 14, 2021] Our paper on "Evaluating the impact of falsely detected performance bug-inducing changes in JIT models" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)! [PDF]
- [May 29, 2021] Our paper on "The Ghost Commit Problem When Identifying Fix-Inducing Changes: An Empirical Study of Apache Projects" has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)! [PDF]
- [May 12, 2021] Our paper on "Does Shortening the Release Cycle Affect Refactoring Activities: A Case Study of the JDT Core, Platform SWT, and UI projects" has been accepted to Information and Software Technology (IST)! [PDF]
- [April 1, 2021] Our paper on "An Empirical Study on the Use of SZZ for Identifying Inducing Changes of Non-functional Bugs" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)! [PDF]
- [February 29, 2021] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME2021), September 27 - October 1, 2021 (Virtual Event).
- [February 1, 2021] Our paper on "The impact of feature importance methods on the interpretation of defect classifiers" has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)! [PDF]
- [December 30, 2020] Our paper on "Leveraging Fault Localisation to Enhance Defect Prediction" has been accepted at the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2021)! [PDF]
- [November 26, 2020] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2022), May 21-29, 2022 (Pittsburgh, USA).
- [September 17, 2020] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2021), May 23-24, 2021 (Madrid, Spain).
- [June 19, 2020] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2021), August 23-27, 2021 (Athens, Greece).
- [May 25, 2020] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME2020), September 27-October 3, 2020 (Adelaide, Australia).
- [October 26, 2019] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2021), May 22-30, 2021 (Madrid, Spain).
- [October 9, 2019] Our proposal on "AIOps - Best Practices and Future Trends" has been accepted to NII Shonan Meetings (together with Zhen Ming (Jack) Jiang and Ahmed E. Hassan)!
- [September 21, 2019] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE 2020), November 8-13, 2020 (California, United States).
- [September 6, 2019] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2020), May 25-26, 2020 (Seoul, South Korea).
- [June 19, 2019] Our paper on "Impact of Discretization Noise on Machine Learning Classifiers when Studying Software Engineering Datasets" has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)! [PDF]
- [May 21, 2019] Our proposal on "SENSOR - SENsible SOftware Refactoring" has been accepted to SNSF-JSPS International Joint Research Program (JRPs) with Gabriele Bavota and Michele Lanza!
- [March 15, 2019] My research achievements "Mining Software Repositories (MSR) to Improve Software Quality Assurance" received IPSJ/ACM Award for Early Career Contribution to Global Research!
- [March 2, 2019] Our paper on "DeepJIT: An End-To-End Deep Learning Framework for Just-In-Time Defect Prediction" has been accepted at the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2019)! [PDF]
- [March 1, 2019] Our paper on "A Survey of Self-Admitted Technical Debt" has been accepted to the Journal of Systems and Software (JSS)! [PDF]
- [January 24, 2019] Our seminar proposal on "Japanese-Dutch Research Network on Mining Collaborative and Human Aspects from Software Repositories" has been accepted to JSPS-NWO Bilateral Research Projects/Seminars with Alexander Serebrenik!
- [December 12, 2018] Our paper on "GreenBundle: An Empirical Study on the Energy Impact of Bundled Processing" has been accepted at the 41st International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)! [PDF]
- [December 12, 2018] Our paper on "The Impact of Feature Reduction Techniques on Defect Prediction Models" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)! [PDF]
- [October 15, 2018] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2019), May 26-27, 2019 (Montreal, Canada).
- [October 11, 2018] Our paper on "Automatic Topic Classification of Test Cases Using Text Mining at an Android Smartphone Vendor" won the best industry paper award at International Symposium on
Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM2018)! [PDF]
- [October 7, 2018] Our paper on "Bridging Semantic Gaps between Natural Languages and APIs with Word Embedding" has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)! [PDF]
- [September 27, 2018] Our proposal on "Release Engineering for Mobile Apps" has been accepted to NII Shonan Meetings (together with Shane McIntosh and Meiyappan Nagappan)!
- [August 15, 2018] Our paper on "Automatic Topic Classification of Test Cases Using Text Mining at an Android Smartphone Vendor" has been accepted at International Symposium on
Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM2018), Industry Track! [PDF]
- [June 6, 2018] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2019), February 24–27, 2019 (HangZhou, China).
- [March 5, 2018] Our paper on "Empirical Study on the Relationship Between Developers Working Habits and Efficiency" has been accepted at the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2018) Mining Challenge! [PDF]
- [January 17, 2018] I was invited to be a program committee member for International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM 2018), September 23-24, 2018 (Madrid, Spain).
- [January 12, 2018] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME2018), September 23-29, 2018 (Madrid, Spain).
- [December 23, 2017] Our TSE paper on "Are Fix-Inducing Changes a Moving Target? A Longitudinal Case Study of Just-In-Time Defect Prediction" has been selected for the journal first program of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018), May 27 - June 3, 2018 (Gothenburg, Sweden). [PDF]
- [November 11, 2017] I was invited to be a program committee member for International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2018), September 3-7, 2018 (Montpellier, France).
- [June 30, 2017] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2018), March 20–23, 2018 (Campobasso, Italy).
- [April 21, 2017] I was invited to be a program committee member for Poster Track of The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2018), May 27 - June 3, 2018 (Gothenburg, Sweden).
- [April 10, 2017] Our paper on "Are Fix-Inducing Changes a Moving Target? A Longitudinal Case Study of Just-In-Time Defect Prediction" has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)! [PDF]
- [April 5, 2017] I was invited to be a program committee member for Artifacts Track of The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME2017), September 17-24, 2017 (Shanghai, China).
- [March 15, 2017] Our paper on "The Impact Of Using Regression Models to Build Defect Classifiers" has been accepted at the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2017)! [PDF]
- [March, 5 2017] I was invited to be a program committee member for Tool Demo Track for the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2017), October 30 - November 3, 2017 (Illinois, USA).
- [February 20, 2017] We are invited as a speaker to the "Predictive Models in Software Engineering: Measures, Models and Benchmarks" event at The 52nd CREST Open Workshop 2017 (London, UK). We deliver a talk on "Defect Prediction: Accomplishments and Future Challenges".
- [January, 29 2017] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2017), September 18-19, 2017 (Shanghai, China).
- [December, 30 2016] I was invited to be an Expert Review Panel (ERP) member for the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2017), October 30 - November 3, 2017 (Illinois, USA).
- [November, 29 2016] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2017), September 17-23, 2017 (Shanghai, China).
- [November, 3 2016] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS 2017), July 25-29, 2017 (Prague, Czech Republic).
- [October 31, 2016] I was invited to be a program committee member for Artifacts Track of The International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE2017), September 4-8, 2017 (Paderborn, Germany).
- [October 27, 2016] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2017), May 20-21, 2017 (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
- [June 15, 2016] Our paper on "Why are Commits being Reverted? A Comparative Study of Industrial and Open Source Projects" has been accepted at the International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME 2016)! [PDF]
- [June 7, 2016] Our paper on "Predicting Crashing Releases of Mobile Applications" has been accepted at the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2016)! [PDF]
- [May 26, 2016] Our paper on "Thresholds for Size and Complexity Metrics: A Case Study from the Perspective of Defect Density" has been accepted at the International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security (QRS 2016)! [PDF]
- [May 15, 2016] I'm thrilled to announce that I was invited to be a PC co-chair (together with Emily Hill) for the International Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2018), May, 2018 (Gothenburg, Sweden).
- [May 4, 2016] Our paper on "The Impact of Task Granularity on Co-evolution Analyses" has been accepted at the International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement (ESEM 2016)! [PDF]
- [May 3, 2016] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Workshop on Software Analytics (SWAN 2016), November 13, 2016 (Seattle, USA).
- [April 21, 2016] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER 2017), February 20–24, 2017 (Klagenfurt, Austria).
- [April 12, 2016] I was invited to be a program committee member for Poster Track of The International Conference on Software Maintenanc (ICSE 2017), May 20-28, 2017 (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
- [March 18, 2016] I was selected to be a steering committee member of the International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER)!
- [February 20, 2016] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC 2017), May 22-23, 2017 (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
- [February 17, 2016] I was invited to be an editorial board member of Empirical Software Engineering journal!
- [January 28, 2016] I was invited to be a program committee member for Artifacts Track of The International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (FSE2016), November 13-18, 2016 (Seattle, WA, USA).
- [January 20, 2016] We are invited as a speaker to the "Leaders of Tomorrow: Future of Software Engineering" event at SANER 2016 (Osaka, Japan). We deliver a talk on "Defect Prediction: Accomplishments and Future Challenges" [PDF].
- [January 11, 2016] Our paper on "A Study of the Quality-Impacting Practices of Modern Code Review at Sony Mobile" has been accepted at the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Software Engineering in Practice (SEIP) Track! [PDF]
- [November 26, 2015] I was invited to be a program committee member for Data Showcase Track of The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2016), May 14–15, 2016 (Austin, Texas).
- [November 26, 2015] I was invited to be a program committee member for Tool Demonstration Track of The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME2016), 2016 (North Carolina, USA).
- [September 9, 2015] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2016), May 14–15, 2016 (Austin, Texas).
- [August 6, 2015] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME2016), 2016 (North Carolina, USA).
- [August 1, 2015] I'm a visiting researcher at Queen's University with support from JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow for Research Abroad.
- [July 28, 2015] Our paper on "Studying Just-In-Time Defect Prediction using Cross-Project Models" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)!
- [May 27, 2015] Our paper on "An Empirical Study of goto in C Code from GitHub Repositories" has been accepted at the 10th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)!
- [March 13, 2015] I'm appointed as an associate professor from March 1st, 2015, at Kyushu University!
- [March 5, 2015] Our paper on "An Empirical Study of the Impact of Modern Code Review Practices on Software Quality" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)!
- [March 4, 2015] We delivered a talk on "The Promises and Perils of International Projects" as panelists in SANER2015, (Montreal, Canada).
- [February 28, 2015] I was invited to be a program committee member for Early Research Achievements (ERA) track of The International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME2015), September 29 - October 1, 2015 (Bremen, German).
- [February 12, 2015] Our paper on An empirical study of goto in C code has been published in PeerJ PrePrint! Our paper was introduced on the front page of Slashdot submission!
- [February 5, 2015] Our poster on "Poster: Conquering Uncertainty in Java Programming" has been accepted at the 37th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)!
- [January 27, 2015] Our paper on "Studying High Impact Fix-Inducing Changes" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)!
- [October 28, 2014] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM2015), September 27-28, 2015 (Bremen, Germany).
- [October 07, 2014] I'm co-organizing MSR(Mining Software Repository) Asia Summit, with Akinori Ihara, November 24, 2014 at Tokyo, Japan.
- [September 23, 2014] I was invited to be a PC co-chair (together with Michele Lanza) for The International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER2016), March 14-18, 2016 (Osaka, Japan).
- [September 21, 2014] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2015), May 16-17, 2015 (Florence, Italy).
- [September 18, 2014] I was invited to be a program committee member for Tool Demonstration Track of The International Conference on Program Comprehension (ICPC2015), May 18-May 19, 2015 (Florence, Italy).
- [July 21, 2014] Our paper on "Early Identification of Future Committers in Open Source Software Projects" has been accepted at The International Conference on Quality Software (QSIC2014)! [PDF]
- [July 1, 2014] Our paper on "Abstraction-aware Verifying Compiler for Yet Another MDD" has been accepted at the International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2014) as a new ideas paper!
- [June 14, 2014] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering (SANER2015), March 2-6, 2015 (Québec, Canada).
- [June 4, 2014] I was invited to be a PC Chair of Data showcase for The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2015), May 16-17, 2015 (Florence, Italy).
- [May 10, 2014] I was invited to be a program committee member for Tool Demonstration Track of The International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM2014), September 28-29, 2014 (Victoria, British Columbia, Canada).
- [May 2, 2014] Our paper on "The Impact of Code Review Coverage and Code Review Participation on Software Quality: A Case Study of the Qt, VTK, and ITK Projects" received the Distinguished Paper Award at MSR 2014.
- [March 27, 2014] I was invited to be a program committee member for Software Engineering In Practice of The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2015), May 16-24, 2015 (Firenze, Italy).
- [March 11, 2014] Our paper on "The Impact of Code Review Coverage and Code Review Participation on Software Quality: A Case Study of the Qt, VTK, and ITK Projects" has been accepted at The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2014)! [PDF]
- [March 11, 2014] Our paper on "An Empirical Study of Just-In-Time Defect Prediction Using Cross-Project Models" has been accepted at The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2014)! [PDF]
- [March 11, 2014] Our paper on "Magnet or Sticky?: An OSS Project-by-Project Typology" has been accepted at The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2014) Mining Challenge! [PDF]
- [February 15, 2014] Our paper on "Quantifying Programmers' Mental Workload during Program Comprehension Based on Cerebral Blood Flow Measurement: A Controlled Experiment" has been accepted at The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2014) New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) Track! [PDF]
- [December 22, 2013] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA2014), October 12-16, 2014 (Nice, France).
- [September 23, 2013] I was invited to be a program committee member for Data Showcase Track of The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2014), May 31-June 1, 2014 (Hyderabad, India).
- [September 07, 2013] I'm co-organizing MSR(Mining Software Repository) Asia Summit, with Akinori Ihara, October 28, 2013 at KYOTO RESEARCH PARK, Kyoto, Japan.
- [August 19, 2013] I was invited to be a program committee member for Conference on Software Maintenance, Reengineering and Reverse Engineering (CSMR-WCRE2014), February 3-7, 2014 (Antwerp, Belgium).
- [June 26, 2013] Our paper on "Is Lines of Code a Good Measure of Effort in Effort-Aware Models?" has been accepted to the Journal of Information and Software Technology!
- [March 15, 2013] Our paper on "Revisiting Software Development Effort Estimation Based on Early Phase Development Activities" has been accepted at The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2013)! [PDF]
- [February 23, 2013] I was invited to be a program committee member for Data Challenge Track of The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2013), May 18-19, 2013 (San Francisco, California, USA).
- [November 26, 2012] I was invited to be a program committee member for Tool Demonstration Track of The International Conference on Software Maintenanc (ICSM2013), September 22-28, 2013 (Eindhoven, The Netherlands).
- [October 22, 2012] Our paper on "A Large-Scale Empirical Study of Just-In-Time Quality Assurance" has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE)!
- [August 19, 2012] Our paper on "Studying Re-opened Bugs in Open Source Software" has been accepted to the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE)!
- [July 5, 2012] I was invited to be a program committee member for Tool Demonstration Track of The Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE2012), October 15-18, 2012 (Kingston, Canada).
- [June 27, 2012] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Conference on Software Engineering Advances (ICSEA2012), November 18-23, 2012 (Lisbon, Portugal).
- [March 21, 2012] Our poster on "Using the GPGPU for Scaling Up Mining Software Repositories" has been accepted at the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)!
- [March 14, 2012] I was invited to be student volunteer chair and web chair for MODULARITY: The International Conference on Aspect-Oriented Software Development (AOSD2013), March 25-29, 2013 (Fukuoka, Japan).
- [March 13, 2012] I was invited to be a program committee member for Thematic Tracks of The International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology (QUATIC2012), September 3-6, 2012 (Lisbon, Portugal).
- [December 22, 2011] I was invited to be a program committee member for Tool Demonstration Track of The International Conference on Software Maintenanc (ICSM2012), September 23-30, 2012 (Treno, Italy).
- [November 26, 2011] I will be co-chairing JSSST Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering (FOSE2012), together with Naoyasu Ubayashi (Oita, Japan).
- [November 11, 2011] I was invited to be a program committee member for The International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR2012) Mining Challenge, June 2-3, 2012 (Zurich, Switzerland).
- [June 30, 2011] The artifact supporting the paper "High-Impact Defects: A Study of Breakage and Surprise Defects" has been accepted at the Artifact Evaluation process of the 8th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)!. The data and the scripts can be downloaded from this link. This folder also includes the README file. For details, please visit this website.
- [May 29, 2011] Our paper on "High-Impact Defects: A Study of Breakage and Surprise Defects" has been accepted at the 8th joint meeting of the European Software Engineering Conference and the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE)!
- [May 17, 2011] I was invited to be a program committee member for the International Workshop on Machine Learning Technologies in Software Engineering (MALETS), November 12, 2011 (Lawrence, KS, USA).
- [May 6, 2011] Our paper on "Context Analysis Method for Embedded Systems ---Exploring a Requirement Boundary between a System and Its Context" has been accepted at the 19th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)!
- [April 10, 2011] I will be general chair of the 3rd International Workshop on Empirical Software Engineering in Practice (IWESEP), November 1st, 2011 (Nara, Japan).
- [April 1, 2011] I am an assistant professor at Kyushu University, Japan.
- [November 17, 2010] Our paper on "An Empirical Study of Build Maintenance Effort" has been accepted at the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE)!