Organizers

Co-Chairs

Yasutaka Kamei is an associate professor at Kyushu University in Japan. He has been a research fellow of the JSPS (PD) from July 2009 to March 2010. From April 2010 to March 2011, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Queen’s University in Canada. His research interests include empirical software engineering, open source software engineering and mining software repositories (MSR). His work has been published at premier venues like ICSE, FSE, ESEM, MSR and ICSM, as well as in major journals like TSE, EMSE and IST. He received the B.E. degree (2005) in Informatics from Kansai University, and the M.E. degree (2007) and Ph.D. degree (2009) in Information Science from Nara Institute of Science and Technology. akinori-iharaAkinori Ihara is an assistant professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan. His research interests include empirical software engineering, open source software engineering, social software engineering and mining software repositories (MSR). His work has been published at premier venues like ICSE, MSR, and ISSRE. He received the M.E. degree (2009) and Ph.D.degree (2012) from Nara Institute of Science and Technology.

Web Chair

Chakkrit (Kla) Tantithamthavorn is a Ph.D. candidate at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan. He is also a visiting research student at Queen’s University working with Professor Ahmed E. Hassan from May 2014 to April 2016. HIs work has been published at premier venues like ICSE, SANER, and ISSRE. His research interests include empirical software engineering and mining software repositories (MSR). He received the B.E. degree (2012) in computer engineering from Kasetsart University, Thailand, and the M.E. degree (2014) in Information Science from Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.

Student Volunteers

Kazuhiro Yamashita (Kyushu Unversity)
Hikari Kosuda (Kyushu Unversity)
Takahiro Matsumoto (Kyushu Unversity)
Keisuke Miura (Kyushu Unversity)
Yuta Takahashi (Kyushu Unversity)
Masayuki Hirose (Kyushu Unversity)

Erina Makihara (NAIST)
Kar Long Chan (NAIST)
Takao Nakagawa (NAIST)
Saya Onoue (NAIST)
Daiki Fujibayashi (NAIST)
Kenichi Ono (NAIST)
Tomotaka Minami (NAIST)