Profile

I am an assistant professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST), Japan. I worked for Hitachi Ltd. as a full-time software engineer for two years before spending three years as a research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. I received my Ph.D. degree in engineering from Wakayama University in 2020. After this, I was a post-doc under SENSOR (SENsible SOftware Refactoring) project led by Yasutaka Kamei and Gabriele Bavota.

My research interests include empirical software engineering, specifically the analysis of software bugs, testing, refactoring, and release. In recent years, I have focused on utilizing trace logs generated during test exercises using dynamic analysis. These generated traces can improve Just-in-time bug predictions and automatic refactoring tools. Also, many of my projects involve foreign researchers from Canada, Switzerland, and South Korea, etc.


Biography

Apr. 2013---Mar. 2015: Master student at Wakayama University
Apr. 2015---Mar. 2017: Full-time software developer at Hitachi, Ltd.
Apr. 2017---Mar. 2020: Doctoral student at Wakayama University
Apr. 2017---Mar. 2020: JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists (DC1)
Apr. 2019---Sep. 2019: Visiting researcher at Polytechnique Montréal
Apr. 2020---Mar. 2022: Reseach assistant researcher at Kyushu University
Nov. 2021---Feb. 2022: Visiting researcher at Università della Svizzera Italiana
Apr. 2022---present:    Assistant professor at Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST)

Recent Publications

  • An Empirical Study on Self-admitted Technical Debt in Modern Code Review
    Y Kashiwa, R Nishikawa, Y Kamei, M Kondo, E Shihab, R Sato, N Ubayashi
    Information and Software Technology (IST), 2022.
  • An Empirical Study of Issue-Link Algorithms: Which Issue-Link Algorithms Should We Use?
    M Kondo, Y Kashiwa, Y Kamei, O Mizuno
    Empirical Software Engineering, 2022.
  • Does Refactoring Break Tests and to What Extent?
    Y Kashiwa, K Shimizu, B Lin, G Bavota, M Lanza, Y Kamei, N Ubayashi
    37th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME2021), 2021.
  • Does Shortening the Release Cycle Affect Refactoring Activities: A Case Study of the JDT Core, Platform SWT, and UI projects
    O Nourry, Y Kashiwa, Y Kamei, N Ubayashi
    Information and Software Technology (IST), 2021.

Other publications can be found here.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=hFD-GC8AAAAJ&hl=en

Awards

  • Interactive Award, Software Engineering Symposium 2013, 2013.
  • Best Paper Award, Software Engineering Symposium 2014, 2014.
  • Specially Selected Paper Award, Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, 2015.
  • Student Research Award, SIGSE Special Interest Groups on Software Engineering, 2015 .
  • President’s Award in Wakayama University, 2015.
  • Research Encouragement Award, Software Symposium in Wakayama, 2015.
  • IPSJ Yamashita SIG Research Award, 2016.
  • IPSJ Outstanding Paper Award, Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, 2016.
  • Specially Selected Paper Award, Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, 2021.
  • Research Encouragement Award, IEICE Special Interest Groups on Software Science, 2022.

Qualifications

  • Database Specialist (Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan)
  • Applied Information Technology Engineer (Information-technology Promotion Agency, Japan)

Contact

yutaro.kashiwa［ａｔ］is.naist.jp

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