Ongoing Activities…

List up community activities:

2026 Organizing

Link Invited Keynote Speaker for SIML 2026
The University of Osaka, IST Retreat.
Link Speinshart Scientific Center for AI and SuperTech Workshop: AI in a Fragmented World: Navigating Trade-offs Across Disciplines and Cultures
Link Shonan 228: Envisioning the Future of (eXtended Reality) Software Engineering
Link Shonan 257: Crafting the Future of Developer Experience

Link Published TSE Paper! “Self-admitted GenAI usage in open-source software”
Link Accepted EMSE Paper! “Security by documentation? characterizing GitHub SECURITY.md policy and their adoption in Python libraries”
Link Accepted TOSEM Paper! “BonsAIDE: An Extended Vision for Human-AI Interaction in IDEs”
Link Accepted Workshop Paper! “Forecasting Developer Environments with GenAI: A Research Perspective”
Link Accepted MSR2026 Full Paper! “An Empirical Study of Policy as Code: Adoption, Purpose, and Maintenance”
Accepted MSR2026 Challenge Paper! “Humans Integrate, Agents Fix: How Agent-Authored Pull Requests Are Referenced in Practice”
Accepted MSR2026 Challenge Paper! “When is Generated Code Difficult to Comprehend? Assessing AI Agent Python Code Proficiency in the Wild”

Link Done and Dusted! Program Co-Chairs for VISSOFT2025
Link Done and Dusted! Doctoral Symposium Co-Chair for ICSME2025
Link Done and Dusted! Publicity Co-Chair for CoopIS2025
Link Done and Dusted! Japanese SES Committee
Link Done and Dusted! Shonan: The Future of Development Environments with AI Foundation Models

Link Invited Talk for WSSE2025 Invited Talk - Software Ecosystems: Where Do We Go From Here?
Link Invited Talk for Invited Talk at 1st African Winter School on Software Engineering & AI - Collaborations Result in Diverse Thinking, Novelty and Different Perspectives
Link Invited Talk for the ICSE2025 New Faculty Symposium - Collaborations Result in Diverse Thinking, Novelty and Different Perspectives,
Slides Invited Keynote for 第6回次世代ソフトウェアエコシステムワークショップ - What are Developer Coding Skills? Past, Present, Future, NAIST, Japan
Link Invited Paper for the SEBot Workshop with ICSE - Reducing Alert Fatigue via AI-Assisted Negotiation: A Case for Dependabot
Link Invited Talk for the ICSE2025 New Faculty Symposium - Collaborations Result in Diverse Thinking, Novelty and Different Perspectives,
Invited Talk for Singapore Management University - Software Ecosystems.

Link Accepted Vision Paper to the 2030 Software Engineering Workshop ‘Interacting with AI Reasoning Models: Harnessing “Thoughts” for AI-Driven Software Engineering’
Link Accepted Vision Paper to the 2030 Software Engineering Workshop ‘Rethinking Reuse in Dependency Supply Chains: Initial Analysis of NPM packages at the End of the Chain’
Link Accepted Vision Paper to the 2030 Software Engineering Workshop ‘Open Source at a Crossroads: The Future of Licensing Driven by Monetization’
Link Accepted Vision Paper to the 2030 Software Engineering Workshop ‘The Shift from Writing to Pruning Software: A Bonsai-Inspired IDE for Reshaping AI Generated Code’
Link Awarded and Congrats to Thongtanunam et al. on the Most Influential Paper award for SANER2025!Who should review my code? SANER2015
Link Congrats Youmei et al. on EMSE paper! Developer Reactions to Protestware in Open Source Software: The cases of color. js and es5. ext. Empirical Software Engineering
Link Congrats Yoshioka et al. on MSR Mining Challenge 2025 Paper
Link Congrats Tanaka et al. on MSR Mining Challenge 2025 paper!
Link Congrats Kancharoendee et al. on SANER Short paper! On Categorizing Open Source Software Security Vulnerability Reporting Mechanisms on GitHub

Link Awarded the Most Influential Paper with co-authors, Visualizing the evolution of systems and their library dependencies, IEEE 12th International Workshop on Visualizing Software for Understanding and Analysis (VISSOFT2024)
Link Done and Dusted! WIREDS24
Link Done and Dusted! Shonan 207
Link Started working at The University of Osaka! joined Higo Lab

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