Organizers

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 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

Toshiki Hirao is a M.E. candidate at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan. He was also a visiting research student at McGill University working with Assistant Professor Shane McIntosh from May to Aug 2016. His research interests include empirical software engineering and mining software repositories (MSR). He received the B.E. degree (2015) in computer engineering from Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan.

Local Arrangement Chair

Keitaro Nakasai is a M.E. candidate at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan. His research interests include empirical software engineering and mining software repositories (MSR). He received the B.E. degree (2016) in computer engineering from Kindai University, Japan.